Results

We are committed to ensuring all responses are carefully and open-mindedly analysed and the results made widely available, with an account of the views expressed and the reasons for decisions finally taken. Here you will find our most recently published consultation and survey results. 

Publishing results and responses also align with our Open Data Strategy for Northern Ireland 2020-2023. You can read our strategy and access more open data on OpenDataNI.

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Consultations with Published Results

  • New Dilapidated Buildings Regime : Draft Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA)

    DAERA intends to provide councils with a modern fit-for-purpose regime to tackle dilapidated / dangerous buildings and neglected sites. The new regime will provide clarity, broader powers and improved cost recovery mechanisms. Any new powers will be discretionary.

    Closed 18 October 2024

  • Rural Policy Framework for Northern Ireland Consultation

    The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) is delighted to present the draft Rural Policy Framework and look forward to hearing your views. This Framework has been developed collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders including the public, private, and voluntary and community sector. The Framework has provided an opportunity to review the approach to rural policy and what is needed to support rural communities in the context of the following main...

    Closed 6 September 2021

  • Review of Further Education Support & Charging at CAFRE

    The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has launched a public consultation on Further Education (FE) Support and Charging policy at the College for Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE).

    Closed 18 September 2020

We Asked, You Said, We Did

We asked

For your comments on the Department's draft Regulatory Impact Assessment of its options for a modernised regime to tackle dilapidation.

You said

You agreed with the Department's preferred option - a new broader regime with enhanced cost recovery provisions, introduced by way of a “Dilapidated / Dangerous Buildings and Neglected Sites” Act. You also highlighted the issue of dilapidated historic buildings and the potential to bring them back in to use. You encouraged the new regime to recognise the distinct challenges posed by heritage buildings.

We did

The issue of heritage buildings will be sensitively addressed in any forthcoming legislation in respect of dilapidated buildings - with appropriate safeguards included.

A final draft Regulatory Impact Assessment will be published on the Department's website in due course.

Closed Consultations and Surveys

  • NICS Library Service Customer Satisfaction survey 2024/25

    This short survey is designed to find out how our customers rate the service they received from the NICS Library Service in the past year. We would appreciate you taking a couple of minutes to answer the 3 questions. Please click on this link to find out more about the NICS Library Service.

    Closed 20 June 2025

  • Social Care Council - Managers Forum Evaluations 2025/2026

    The Social Care Council hosts forum events twice a year, which bring together registered Social Care Managers from across the sector to update them on the new resources available to support them in meeting their responsibilities for registered staff and to share updates on policy and best practice....

    Closed 20 June 2025

  • Consultation on Proposals to amend the Minimum Standards for Childminding and Day Care for Children Under Age 12

    The Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (the Order) stipulates that any person providing more than 2 hours of childcare per day for children under 12 and for reward, must be registered with the relevant Health and Social Care (HSC) Trust for the area in which they are working. The purpose of...

    Closed 20 June 2025