Strategies
The Good Friday Agreement states that the Executive will "seek to agree each year, and review as necessary" a Programme for Government incorporating an agreed budget.
The following programmes for government have been published to date:
- Draft Programme for Government (2001–2002) (25 October 2000)
- Draft Programme for Government (2002–2003) (24 September 2001)
- Programme for Government 2008–2011 (22 January 2008)
The 2011–2015 Executive was appointed in May 2011 but had not published a Programme for Government as of November 2011.
The following budgets have been published to date:
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- Budget 2008–11
- Budget 2011–15
Under the St Andrews Agreement, the Executive is obliged to adopt strategies on the following policy matters:
- enhancing and protecting the development of the Irish language;
- enhancing and developing Ulster Scots language, heritage and culture; and
- tackling poverty, social exclusion and patterns of deprivation based on objective need.
The Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister published a child poverty strategy in March 2011. The wider anti-poverty strategy was carried over from direct rule in November 2006. As of November 2011, neither an Irish language strategy nor an Ulster Scots strategy had been adopted. The Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure states that a Strategy for Indigenous or Regional Minority Languages "will be presented to the Executive in due course".
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