Communities Minister Gordon Lyons has set out his priorities for housing, including building more social homes and providing more affordable housing options.

Economy Minister Conor Murphy today announced a new programme of support to help early-stage, technology-based, start-up businesses and entrepreneurs become global businesses of the future.

The Minister for Communities Gordon Lyons, Minister of Finance Caoimhe Archibald and Minister for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Andrew Muir met this afternoon to discuss the issues affecting the Victoria Square apartments.

The economic output statistics were published today by the Northern Ireland Statistics & Research Agency (NISRA).

The Good Relations Indicator report published by The Executive Office today presents a range of statistics relating to community relations, including numbers of hate crimes, attitudinal data on Protestant/Catholic relations and attitudes towards mixing in schools, neighbourhoods and the workplace.