THE OFFICIAL REPORT (HANSARD)

The Official Report (Hansard) of the Northern Ireland Assembly is the authoritative record of all plenary proceedings of the Assembly and certain Committee meetings. Each Official Report contains a substantially verbatim transcript of proceedings, including speeches, questions, decisions and votes.

A full report of each Assembly sitting is published the day after each plenary sitting and is available by clicking on the relevant date below. Official Reports of Committee meetings are published on the Committee section of this website. At regular intervals, a Bound Volume containing the Official Reports of all the sittings during during a particular period is published — this is the definitive version of the Official Report.

A brief guide to the Office of the Official Report (Hansard) is available here.

TODAY'S HANSARD

The first edition of the Official Report of each day's plenary proceedings in the Assembly is available here on a phased basis on sitting days (sittings days are normally Mondays and Tuesdays). This edition is replaced the following morning by the revised Official Report.

HANSARD TODAY

PREVIOUS REPORTS

All the Official Reports of the Northern Ireland Assembly from the period 1998 to 2002 (including the period before devolution) can be found here.

All the Official Reports of the Assembly, which was in place between 15 May 2006 and 22 November 2006, can be found here.

All the Official Reports of the Transitional Assembly, which was in place between 24 November 2006 and 6 May 2007, can be found here.

In addition, Official Reports from the House of Commons in the Northern Ireland parliaments that sat between 1921 and 1972 can be found at the following address - www.ahds.ac.uk/stormont/index.html. Please note that this is not an Assembly website and that the Northern Ireland Assembly accepts no responsibility for the contents thereof.

The Office of the Official Report (Hansard) in the Northern Ireland Assembly is a member of the British-Irish Parliamentary Reporting Association (BIPRA) and the Commonwealth Hansard Editors Association. Further information on BIPRA is available at www.bipra.org and on CHEA at http://www.commonwealth-hansard.org/chea_index.asp.