Nigel Dodds OBE is Minister for Social Development in the new Northern Ireland Executive. He was a DUP member of the Northern Ireland Assembly 1982–85 and represented the party in the 1991 Brooke talks and was a delegate to the multi-party talks 1996–97.

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Accord Issue 8: Northern Ireland

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