Stormont: health and education services to benefit from multi-million pound cash boost
The funding will be coming from the June monitoring round
The health and education services in Northern Ireland are the big winners from the latest Stormont monitoring round.
Ministers agreed to distribute ÂŁ300m across the Executive departments - with ÂŁ122m going to health and ÂŁ43.7m allocated to the Department of Education.
The allocation is made up of ÂŁ250m of resource spend and ÂŁ50m of capital money.
Finance minister Caoimhe Archibald announced the outcome of the exercise in the Assembly on Monday.
An outstanding pay settlement for non-teaching educational support workers will be funded from education's ÂŁ43.7m.
The department will receive a further ÂŁ44.5 million, ÂŁ29.5 million to address pressures in the education system and ÂŁ15 million for capital works to improve the school estate.
A total of ÂŁ35 million is being given to the Department for Justice while the Department for Communities has been allocated ÂŁ20 million for new build social housing and ÂŁ10 million for safe cladding works.
The Department for Communities will get a further ÂŁ10m for discretionary support, which helps people with help with short term living expenses, and its Supporting People programme, as well as for homelessness interventions.