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Roles and responsibilities
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http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/about_proni.htm
Sports
DCAL is responsible for the central administration and promotion of sport in Northern Ireland. We are committed to promoting sport at grassroots level, providing access to sport and encouraging the take-up of sport across communities and by children and young people in particular.
Our work in sport includes:
•Sport Northern Ireland : DCAL is responsible for ensuring the effective and efficient administration of Sport NI which is the statutory body set up under the recreation and Youth Service (NI) Order 1986 and is responsible for the development of sport in NI, including the distribution of funding.
•The Elite Facilities Capital Programme (EFCP) : Managed by Sport NI on behalf of DCAL. .
•Community sport : We are committed to promoting sport at grassroots level.
•Stadia Developments We recognise the need to improve standards of stadia throughout Northern Ireland.
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Museums
We are committed to ensuring the highest standards for our museums and that they continue to develop as attractions both for the local population and our ever increasing visitors.
Museums - ‘Organisations DCAL is responsible for, those it works in partnership with and those it sponsors’
DCAL are responsible for:
National Museums Northern Ireland : NMNI promote the awareness, appreciation and understanding of art, history and science; the culture and way of life of people; and the migration and settlement of people.
National Museums NI hold collections of national significance at its four main sites:
Ulster Museum
Ulster Folk and Transport Museum
Ulster-American Folk Park
Inland Fisheries and Waterways
Inland Waterways
We are committed to developing the recreational potential of inland waterways through our Province-wide Water Recreation Programme.
Applicants, such as Local Authorities, are encouraged to work in partnership with the Department in providing and promoting water recreation facilities such as riverside paths and boat moorings for public use. Wherever practicable, works will incorporate disabled access facilities.
The Department also has ownership of, and custodial responsibility for, those remaining sections of the Lagan and Coalisland Canals that remain in Government ownership following abandonment of navigation in the 1950s. An ongoing programme is in place for each of these highly popular towpaths to upgrade access for pedestrians, cyclists and disabled access.
The Department is also the sponsor department in Northern Ireland for Waterways Ireland which is the Cross-Border Body responsible for the management, maintenance, development and restoration of operational waterways throughout the island of Ireland
Inland Fisheries
We are responsible, under the provisions of the Fisheries Act (NI) 1966, for the salmon and inland fisheries of Northern Ireland and provide advice and guidance on matters relating to the conservation, protection, development and improvement of salmon and inland fisheries to angling clubs, fishery owners, and a range of other water users and interested parties.
Public Angling Estate: The Department has the power under the Fisheries Act (NI) 1966 to acquire and improve facilities for angling for local and visiting anglers. The total number of fisheries available to the public is 64. The Public Angling Estate includes excellent salmon and wild brown trout angling, with some providing exclusive beat fishing. There are specialist pike fisheries, or competition and leisure anglers may prefer the world-class fishing for bream and roach where bags up to 60 kg are regularly taken.
Conservation and Protection: DCAL and cooperation with Loughs Agency and NIEA, aims to ensure sustainable management of the fishery resource. Priority areas currently are conservation and protection of salmon.
Fisheries Conservancy Board A non-Departmental Public Body established under the Fisheries Act with responsibility for the conservation and protection of the salmon and inland fisheries in Northern Ireland other than those in the Londonderry and Newry areas. Functions of FCB have transfered to the Department under the Review of public Administration.
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