Department Of The Environment (Northern Ireland)
The Department of the Environment (DOE; Irish: An Roinn Comhshaoil; Ulster-Scots: Männystrie o tha Kintraside) is a devolved Northern Irish government department in the Northern Ireland Executive. The minister with overall responsibility for the department is the Minister for the Environment.
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