Department of Finance and Personnel - Responsibilities

Responsibilities

The department is responsible for the following policy areas:

  • finance
  • the Northern Ireland Civil Service
  • land and property
  • building regulation
  • procurement
  • civil law reform
  • civil registration

Some financial matters are reserved to Westminster and are therefore not devolved:

  • financial services
  • financial markets

In addition, some matters are excepted and were not intended for devolution:

  • taxation
  • currency

DFP’s main counterparts in the United Kingdom Government are:

  • HM Treasury;
  • the Cabinet Office (on civil service matters);
  • the Ministry of Justice (on civil law reform);
  • the Department for Communities and Local Government (on building regulation);
  • HM Land Registry (on land registration).

In the Irish Government, the main counterparts are:

  • the Department of Finance;
  • the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform;
  • the Department of Justice and Equality (on civil law reform and land registration);
  • the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (on building regulation).

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