The Committee for Communities is a Northern Ireland Assembly committee established to advise, assist and scrutinise the work of the Department for Communities and Minister for Communities (currently Gordon Lyons). The committee also plays a key role in the consultation, consideration and development of new social development legislation.
Until 2016, the committee was called the Committee for Social Development.
Membership of the committee is as follows:
The committee met for the first time in the 2017-2022 Assembly on 23 January 2020.
The committee met for the first time in the 2016-2017 Assembly on 2 June 2016.
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The committee met for the first time in the 2011-2016 Assembly in May 2011.
The committee met for the first time in the 2007-2011 Assembly in May 2007.
The committee met for the first time in the 1998-2003 Assembly in December 1999.