After two years being led by a "former" farmer, DAERA’s dirty laundry is well and truly being aired in public now.
In recent weeks we learned the Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs is being investigated by the UK Office for Environmental Protection over ammonia emissions advice to planners.
Then we reported how the same watchdog had to scrap a probe into DAERA’s environmental assessment regimes - because the Stormont Department cut the funding it is providing OEP this year.
