Nearly twice as many ministerial directions were issued at Stormont from January 2020 to October 2022 as there were in the previous 22 years.
However it added that they "can also be seen as a mechanism to deliver good public policy, at short notice and in extraordinary times, as was evident during the height of the pandemic in 2020 and 2021".As a result of ministerial directions, £1.4bn was released in response to the coronavirus pandemic
The report also compared the use of the directions on other devolved governments in the UK, finding they have been used more frequently in Northern Ireland.
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