Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will make it his policy to support public ownership of Lough Neagh; and if he will make a statement.

Any decision to negotiate the sale of Lough Neagh with its landowner and bring it into public ownership is a matter for the Northern Ireland Executive.

The Northern Ireland parties need to restore the Executive so that locally elected decision-makers can address issues such as this.