Publications

Reader information, definitions and guidance on the use of firework injuries statistics.

The DARD Evidence and Innovation Strategy updated for 2015-17 describes the overarching framework for research and development to underpin evidence-based policy and delivery, and to promote innovation in agri-food, fishing, forestry and other rural businesses. 

The Drainage Council meets approximately 3 times per year and minutes of meetings are recorded by the secretariat to the Drainage Council. Minutes can be viewed using the links below, or by writing to the Drainage Council for NI at the address provided below.

Dear IP letter 17 deals with:

Report on the environmental radioactivity monitoring carried out by Northern Ireland Environment Agency, containing results from 2009-2014.

The Essential Skills Enrolments and Outcomes in Northern Ireland from 2002-03 up to 2014-15 bulletin provides analysis up to the most recent completed academic year and gives detail on the characteristics of those enrolling and performance statistics for the Essential Skills p

DHSSPS written and oral Ministerial announcements and statements laid before the Assembly for 2015

This statistical bulletin presents a range of analysis regarding enrolments (both regulated and non-regulated) in the Northern Ireland further education sector covering academic years 2010/11 to 2014/15.

The Thematic Review was undertaken by the Safeguarding Board for Northern Ireland under direction from the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (DHSSPS).

This update presents the most recent statistics on the level of public confidence in policing and the criminal justice system in Northern Ireland as well as public perceptions of anti-social behaviour.

The purpose of the statement is to inform the Assembly of the outcome of the consultation on proposals for the future of the Youth Council and the way forward.

Equality and Human Rights Screening Policy for Repeal of the Youth Service (NI) Order 1989. 

The European Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC) (WFD) requires the status of groundwater management units (groundwater bodies) within each river basin to be determined as ‘good’ or ‘poor’.

All groundwater bodies in Northern Ireland were classified in 2014-2015 to establish whether they are at good or poor status utilising monitoring data from the past six years (2009 to 2014).

The General Quality test’s overall aim is to assess if the impact of groundwater pollution is sufficiently widespread to compromise the use of the groundwater resource either currently or in the future.

The process of classifying Groundwater Dependant Terrestrial Ecosystems (GWDTE), as defined above, is laid out below. Explanation of the method is given below, with specific detail given to the origin and processing of data required for the implementation of the method.

Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) carried out a seed mussel stock assessment on 3 and 4 November 2015. The areas covered within the November 2015 survey are Donaghadee Sound, Craigbrain, Skullmartin, Burial Island and the Feathers.

The saline intrusion test assesses if an abstraction of groundwater or set of abstractions are likely leading to the intrusion of poorer quality water into a water body.

Surface Water Chemical classification checks whether chemicals, namely phosphorus, contained in the groundwater baseflow (to the surface water body) contribute to status failure of that surface water body.

The Surface Water Quantitative classification test evaluates whether an abstraction or set of abstractions are likely to be leading to a deterioration in status of a surface water body.