Have Your Say

Welcome to the NI Government online consultation tool. This site will help you find and participate in consultations and surveys to have your say in government initiatives.

Activities from the Departments of Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA); Infrastructure (DfI); Finance (DoF), Health (DoH); Health and Social Care (HSC); and the Utility Regulator Northern Ireland (UREGNI) are found below.

Open Consultations

  • Permanent Secretary Onboarding Evaluation

    Permanent Secretary Onboarding Evaluation Please take a few minutes (around 3–4 minutes) to share your personal reflections on the Permanent Secretary Onboarding Programme. We appreciate you taking the time to provide your feedback.

    Closes 20 November 2026

  • Practice Development Day Session: Meet the Regulators - Evaluation

    Thank you for attending our recent "Meet the Regulators" online information session. We are committed to providing engaging, informative, and relevant sessions that support students in their professional learning and development. To help us evaluate the effectiveness of this session and inform future improvements, we would appreciate your feedback. This short questionnaire should take no more than 3-5 minutes to complete. Your responses will help us...

    Closes 20 November 2026

  • Innovation Visit- Potato Innovation and Sustainability- Scotland- January 2027

    The College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) invites applications from farmers interested in attending an Innovation Visit (IV) as part of the new Farming for Sustainability – Innovation Scheme. The visit will take place in Scotland across two days from 13th to the 14th January 2027 The study trip will enable growers to see innovative optical grading systems to improve consistency of grading and reduce labour requirement. Also on the storage and handling...

    Closes 20 November 2026

  • Innovation Visit- Strategies to assist management of Bovine TB in dairy herds- Wales- February 2027

    The College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) invites applications from farmers interested in attending an Innovation Visit (IV) as part of the new Farming for Sustainability – Innovation Scheme. The visit will take place in Wales across three days from the 16th-18th February 2027 As part of the DAERA bTB shared island regionalisation project, we plan to visit farms that have been involved in the well-established Pembrokeshire TB project. The aim will be...

    Closes 20 November 2026

  • Northern Ireland Primary Care Optometry Workforce Consultation 2026

    Thank you for taking the time to complete the Northern Ireland Primary Care Optometry Workforce Consultation 2026. This survey provides community optometrists and dispensing opticians with an opportunity to help shape the future of primary care optometry in Northern Ireland. By sharing information about your role, skills, experience and future plans, you will help build a clearer picture of the workforce and the opportunities and challenges facing the profession. ...

    Closes 22 November 2026

Forthcoming Consultations

  • The Black Paths Active Travel Signature Scheme - Public Engagement

    The Department for Infrastructure (DfI) is developing proposals for the The Black Paths Active Travel Signature Scheme, which will extend and upgrade the existing Black Paths network to create a continuous walking, wheeling and cycling link between Portadown and Lurgan Train Stations via Craigavon....

    Opens 16 November 2026

Closed Consultations

  • Dangerous Structures (Fees) Regulations (NI) 2027: Draft Regulatory Impact Assessment

    The Department of Agriculture, Environment & Rural Affairs (DAERA) intends to make the Dangerous Structures (Fees) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2027. These will come into operation in late February 2027 and will provide district councils with powers to charge fees in relation to surveys, inspections and monitoring of structures a council suspects may be dangerous. The Regulations are being made under the Dilapidation Act (NI) 2026. As part of the regulation making process, the...

    Closed 13 November 2026

  • Homelessness Strategy Steering Group Survey

    Thank you for participating, please proceed.

    Closed 13 November 2026

  • Sickness Absence in the Northern Ireland Civil Service 2024/25

    Workforce Statistics and Analysis (WSA) branch consists of NISRA statisticians embedded within People and Operational Development (People & OD). We produce a range of HR related statistics on staff within the Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS). These statistics include an annual publication on Sickness Absence (see link below).

    Closed 11 November 2026