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Featured: Using a Mobile Phone While Driving - Consultation on Changing the Law
This consultation seeks views on widening the scope of the existing mobile phone offence to include any use of a hand-held mobile phone or other hand-held interactive communication device while driving. It proposes to update existing legislation to ensure it reflects the many advances in technology...
Closes 14 August 2025
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Featured: Divorce and Dissolution of Civil Partnerships
The purpose of this consultation is to invite your opinions on how our current laws on divorce and on the dissolution of civil partnerships might be amended. Divorce and the dissolution of a civil partnership can be a stressful and sometimes acrimonious process both for the parties involved...
Closes 26 September 2025
Open Consultations
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Third Northern Ireland Climate Change Adaptation Programme (NICCAP3) Public Consultation
The Climate Change Act 2008 (the 2008 Act) places a statutory duty on Northern Ireland Executive Departments to lay programmes, before the Northern Ireland Assembly, which set out their objectives, policies, proposals and timelines for introducing those policies and proposals in response to the most recent UK Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA). To fulfil this legal requirement the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has led on the development of a series of...
Closes 4 August 2025
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Regional Review of Neurology Services
In the context of significant pressures and vulnerabilities within neurology services, the Department established a Regional Review of Neurology Services in December 2018. The Review was tasked with identifying the optimum configuration of adult neurology services for the next 10-15 years and a clinically led Review Team was established to take this work forward. The Review Team has completed a broad programme of analysis of current services and user experience. This included a...
Closes 6 August 2025
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Leaders in Partnership Programme 2025 - Application
This programme offers HSC staff, service users and carers an excellent opportunity to develop your capacity to: Lead in many aspects of Involvement within HSC Apply leadership methodologies to influence the system from within Explore how productive relationships ensure better outcomes for service users and carers This programme has been designed to be an introductory course to Leadership and would be most beneficial to those who have not...
Closes 8 August 2025
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Air Quality Awareness Survey 2025
DAERA is seeking to understand awareness of air quality issues amongst the general public. This will assist us in making policy decisions and indicate where we should target the necessary behavioural changes to improve public health. It is important to encourage as many people as possible across Northern Ireland to take part in this survey. The unbiased views and opinions of all those who would not necessarily have any interest in air quality are important to capture so as...
Closes 11 August 2025
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Employment in the Northern Ireland Civil Service - 1 July 2024
Workforce Statistics and Analysis (WSA) branch consists of NISRA statisticians embedded within People and Operational Development (P&OD). We produce a range of HR - related statistics on staff in the Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS). These statistics include publications on Sickness Absence, Equality, Pay, Employment, Personnel and Recruitment.
Closes 13 August 2025
Closed Consultations
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An introduction to Design Thinking 30th June 2025
Thank you for attending the introduction to Design Thinking bootcamp event facilitated by the Innovation and Consultancy Service. As we mentioned during the course, feedback from participants is important to us. Your experiences will help us to iterate and improve the bootcamp for those attending in the future. We would be grateful if you would take 5-10 mins to share your experiences of the 2 days you spent with us. All information is provided anonomously.
Closed 31 July 2025
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Nutrients Action Programme Consultation Survey
Nutrients Action Programme Consultation Survey
Closed 25 July 2025