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The Committee for Communities is a Northern Ireland Assembly committee established to advise, assist and scrutinise the work of the
Department for Communities The Department for Communities (DfC, Irish: ''An Roinn Pobal'', Ulster Scots: ''Depairtment fur Commonities'') is a devolved Northern Ireland government department in the Northern Ireland Executive. The minister with overall responsibility f ...
and Minister for Social Development (currently
Nelson McCausland Nelson McCausland (born 15 August 1951) is a former Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician from Northern Ireland, who was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for North Belfast from 2003 until he lost his seat in 2017. and ...
). The committee also plays a key role in the consultation, consideration and development of new social development legislation.Social Development Committee - niassembly.gov.uk
, URL accessed 25 November 2008. Until 2016, the committee was called the Committee for Social Development.


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Committee A committee or commission is a body of one or more persons subordinate to a deliberative assembly. A committee is not itself considered to be a form of assembly. Usually, the assembly sends matters into a committee as a way to explore them more ...


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Committee for Social Development
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