Northern Irish Devolution

• Good Friday Agreement 1998

  Powers given:

  Education

  Housing

  Policing

  Legislative
• Assembly suspensions

  Often due to clashes.

  2002 to 2007.

  2017 to 2020.

  Governance reverts back to Westminster.
• Northern Irish Voting

  STV, more representative.
• Differences to Wales and Scotland

  No control of money bills.

  STV used instead of AMS.
• Divergence from UK policy

  Recently introduced equal marriage and abortion rights which had not previously existed.

  However still more restrictive than UK.

  More religious schools.
• Success


  GFA helped end the Troubles.
• Failure

  Does not always function as it should due to power sharing disagreements.