To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail current pollutant levels, broken down by local council district area.

Northern Ireland currently has twenty automatic air quality monitoring stations:

Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council has one automatic monitoring station located at Antrim Road, Elmfield. Pollutants monitored; nitrogen dioxide.

Ards and North Down Borough Council has one automatic monitoring station located at Marine Parade, Holywood, A2. Pollutants monitored; nitrogen dioxide and fine particulate matter, known as PM10.

Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council has one automatic monitoring station located at Lonsdale Road, Armagh City. Pollutants monitored; nitrogen dioxide and PM10.

Belfast City Council has five automatic monitoring stations across the city:

Belfast Centre, Lombard St. Pollutants monitored; PM10 and ultra-fine particulate matter known as PM2.5, ozone, nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide, nitrogen oxides, sulphur dioxide and carbon monoxide.

Belfast Stockman's Lane. Pollutants monitored; nitrogen dioxide, PM10, nitrogen oxides and nitric oxide.

Belfast Westlink, Roden Street. Pollutants monitored; nitrogen dioxide, nitrogen oxides and nitric oxide.

Belfast Ormeau Road. Pollutants monitored; nitrogen dioxide, nitrogen oxides and nitric oxide.

Belfast Newtownards Road (Ballyhackamore). Pollutants monitored; nitrogen dioxide, nitrogen oxides and nitric oxide.

Causeway Coast and Glens District Council has one automatic monitoring station located at Dungiven, Main Street. Pollutants monitored; nitrogen dioxide, nitrogen oxides and nitric oxide.

Derry City and Strabane District Council has four automatic monitoring stations:

Derry Rosemount. Pollutants monitored; PM10, PM2.5, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and nitric oxide.

Dale’s Corner. Pollutants monitored; nitrogen dioxide, nitrogen oxides and nitric oxide.

Strathfoyle, Bawnmore Place. Pollutants monitored; PM10

Strabane, Springhill Park. Pollutants monitored; PM10, sulphur dioxide.

Fermanagh and Omagh District Council has one automatic monitoring station located at Lough Navar. Pollutants monitored; ozone, PM10 and PM2.5.

Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council has one automatic monitoring station located at Dunmurry Seymour Hill. Pollutants monitored; PM10 and sulphur dioxide.

Mid & East Antrim Borough Council has two automatic monitoring stations:

Ballymena, Antrim Road. Pollutants monitored; nitrogen dioxide, nitrogen oxides and nitric oxide.

Ballymena, Ballykeel. Pollutants monitored; nitrogen dioxide, PM10, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and nitric oxide.

Mid Ulster District Council monitors nitrogen dioxide through a number of non-automatic monitoring sites in located in Magherafelt, Moneymore, Cookstown, Dungannon, and Moy.

Newry, Mourne and Down District Council has two automatic monitoring stations:

Newry Canal Street. Pollutants monitored; nitrogen dioxide, PM10, nitrogen oxides and nitric oxide.

Downpatrick, Market St. Pollutants monitored; nitrogen dioxide, nitrogen oxides and nitric oxide.

A large network of non-automatic nitrogen dioxide monitoring sites is also operated by the district councils across Northern Ireland.

My Department’s air quality report contains a full analysis of pollutant levels, broken down by local council district area and is available at: https://www.airqualityni.co.uk/documents/technical-reports/0369%20DAERA%20Air%20Pollution%20Report%202019-Issue2-print-optimised.pdf

Current, real-time pollution levels are available from each district council via our website at: https://www.airqualityni.co.uk/