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4 Jul 13
Chief executive appointments to Northern Ireland’s 11 new councils will be made through open competition, environment minister Alex Attwood has announced. The minister said this would be the fairest...
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8 Apr 13
A 5p carrier bag tax comes into effect in Northern Ireland today.
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7 Nov 12
Regional rate rises in Northern Ireland will be capped at 2.2%, in line with inflation, Finance Minister Sammy Wilson has confirmed.
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7 Nov 12
The Northern Ireland government has slashed the amount it spends on external consultants by more than a third.
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7 Nov 12
Plans to impose a levy on large retailers in Northern Ireland were given the green light by Assembly members.
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7 Nov 12
Northern Ireland Finance Minister Sammy Wilson has warned that devolution of fiscal powers to the province could be economically dangerous.
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6 Nov 12
Northern Ireland Agriculture Minister Michelle O’Neill has asked her officials to speed up paying Single Farm Payments.
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6 Nov 12
Special measures have been introduced at the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust after an outbreak of psuedomonas killed three premature babies at the city’s Royal Maternity Hospital
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6 Nov 12
An extra £72m is to be spent on schools and children’s services in Northern Ireland over the next three years after the province’s education budget was revised.
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6 Nov 12
Northern Irish pensioners could be missing out on benefits of between £31m and £197m, the NI Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee has warned
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6 Nov 12
Northern Ireland Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Michelle O’Neill has launched a grant to ensure people living in remote areas have access to safe and affordable drinking water
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6 Nov 12
Northern Ireland has launched an apprenticeship scheme for the information technology sector
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6 Nov 12
The Northern Ireland Government is sharing £4.3m among four councils to develop ‘green and healthy’ transport.
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6 Nov 12
Voluntary and community groups in Northern Ireland have been urged to apply for a share of a £700,000 funding pot aimed at tackling rural poverty and social isolation.
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6 Nov 12
Sinn Féin councillor Seán McPeake was appointed president of the Northern Ireland Local Government Association for the 2012/13 term following its September 28 AGM
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6 Nov 12
Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly have backed the UK government’s welfare-reform plans by 60 votes to 42.
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6 Nov 12
More than a quarter of Northern Ireland government departments failed to file a clean set of accounts last year, the auditor general has revealed.
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18 Sep 12
Twenty-five economists have urged ministers to ditch national pay bargaining in the public sector, saying it is ‘bad for Britain’.
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20 Jun 12
Public sector employment in the UK fell by 39,000 in the first three months of 2012, the tenth consecutive quarterly drop, the Office for National Statistics revealed today.
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6 Jun 12
An offender levy comes into force in Northern Ireland today along with powers for police officers to issue fixed-penalty notices.
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19 Mar 12
The UK’s devolved governments are set on a collision course with Chancellor George Osborne over his proposal to abolish national pay deals in the public sector.
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21 Feb 12
Chancellor George Osborne has been urged to use next month’s Budget to end uncertainty over whether corporation tax powers will be devolved to Northern Ireland.
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20 Jan 12
Just one in four English voters back the current devolution settlement, according to a survey published today.
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16 Jan 12
The 710,000 public sector job losses now expected by 2017 will hit the devolved nations and the Northeast hardest, the Trades Union Congress said today.
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16 Jan 12
Almost eight out of ten English voters want Scottish MPs barred from making laws that only affect England, according to a survey published today.