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NI Assembly: Stormont departments 'should be allocated next week', says McGuinness NI Assembly: Stormont departments 'should be allocated next week', says McGuinness
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Four of Northern Ireland's main parties should be in a position to allocate government departments at the start of next week, Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has said. Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has said he expects the Stormont parties could allocate government departments at the start of next week.
The DUP, Sinn Féin, the SDLP and the Alliance Party are due to meet on Tuesday to discuss a draft document on Stormont's programme for government.The DUP, Sinn Féin, the SDLP and the Alliance Party are due to meet on Tuesday to discuss a draft document on Stormont's programme for government.
However, the SDLP and Alliance have yet to decide if they will form part of the Northern Ireland Executive.
The Ulster Unionists said last week they would not be taking a department.The Ulster Unionists said last week they would not be taking a department.
Instead, they will form Stormont's first ever official opposition.Instead, they will form Stormont's first ever official opposition.
ModelModel
The draft document on the key points of the programme for government - a plan of priorities and action for the new Northern Ireland Executive - is "weak", according the the SDLP's Claire Hanna.The draft document on the key points of the programme for government - a plan of priorities and action for the new Northern Ireland Executive - is "weak", according the the SDLP's Claire Hanna.
She added that it contains "a lot of very aspirational language which wouldn't allow anybody to hold any future government to account".She added that it contains "a lot of very aspirational language which wouldn't allow anybody to hold any future government to account".
But Mr McGuinness of Sinn Féin said it is based on a model previously tried out in Scotland and Finland.But Mr McGuinness of Sinn Féin said it is based on a model previously tried out in Scotland and Finland.
He added that he wants all of the sectors of civil society to buy into the final programme for government.He added that he wants all of the sectors of civil society to buy into the final programme for government.
Direction
The BBC has seen an early draft of a framework document prepared for the politicians by Stormont officials.
It contains 33 indicators of the direction the power-sharing executive wants Northern Ireland's society to move in.
On health matters, they include increasing healthy life expectancy, improving the quality of healthcare experience and improving mental health.
In terms of education, they document targets an improvement in educational outcomes, the quality of education workforce skills.
Employment and economic aims include increasing the number of people in work, reducing poverty and increasing the size and competitiveness of the economy.
Other targets include increasing the use of public transport, improve Northern Ireland's attractiveness as a destination and increasing respect for each other.
Outcomes
An accompanying document makes some tentative suggestions about how progress towards achieving these goals could be measured.
But at this point it does not contain any specific targets like the job creation, investment and visitor numbers pledges contained in the Programme for Government 2011-15.
The draft framework document also contains 13 proposed outcomes.
They include:
Consultation
According to last year's Fresh Start agreement, officials were due to have a framework for a future programme for government prepared by the end of last month.
The current talks were then supposed to resolve a draft programme for government that could be put to the Northern Ireland Assembly for its approval.
Critics claim this timetable is already slipping as the politicians are currently considering a framework rather than a fuller draft programme.
The document seen by the BBC is expected to be amended by the parties then put out to a three-month public consultation.
A full programme for government will be published towards the end of the year, alongside a new budget, economic strategy, investment strategy and social policy plan.