Department for Regional Development
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| Department overview | |
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| Formed | May 2016 |
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| Jurisdiction | Northern Ireland |
| Headquarters | Clarence Court, 10–18 Adelaide Street, Belfast, BT2 8GB |
| Employees | 2,406 (September 2011) |
| Annual budget | £508.3 million (current) & £452.8 million (capital) for 2011–12 |
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| Website | www.infrastructure-ni.gov.uk |
The Department for Infrastructure (DfI, Irish: An Roinn Bonneagair;Ulster-Scots: Männystrie fur Fïttins) is a devolved Northern Ireland government department in the Northern Ireland Executive. The minister with overall responsibility for the department is the Minister for Infrastructure.
Up until May 2016, the department was called the Department for Regional Development.
DfI's overall aim is to "improve quality of life by securing transport and water infrastructure and shaping the region's long-term strategic development".
The incumbent Minister is Chris Hazzard (Sinn Féin).
The department's main responsibilities include
Two transport matters are reserved to Westminster and are therefore not devolved:
DfI's main counterparts in the United Kingdom Government are:
In the Irish Government, its main counterparts are:
The Ministry of Home Affairs was established on the formation of Northern Ireland in June 1921 and was responsible for a range of non-economic domestic matters, including local government. A separate Ministry of Health and Local Government was formed in 1944 and was subsequently split in 1965, to create the Ministry of Development. An environment ministry existed in the 1974 Northern Ireland Executive and the ministry was known as the Department of the Environment under direct rule.
The DoE is still a phrase used in everyday language in Northern Ireland to describe the Roads Service, which was once run by the department but is currently an agency of the Department for Infrastructure.
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