Committees of the Assembly

The day-to-day work of the Assembly is carried out by five Committees:

• The Steering Committee
• Committee on Security, Justice and Global Issues (Committee A)
• Committee on Climate, Energy, Science and Technology (Committee B)
• Committee on Growth, Trade and Investment (Committee C)
• Committee on Peoples and Cultures (Committee D)

Committees make their reports to plenary sessions, where they are debated: the Assembly will typically adopt a resolution based on the recommendations of the report.

Reports considered by the Assembly are sent to both sovereign Governments and to the executives of the devolved and Crown Dependency administrations. Where appropriate, these then make formal replies to the recommendations. These replies are also published and may be considered by the Assembly in plenary session.

In July 2025 the Steering Committee restructured the remits of Assembly Committees to facilitate better scrutiny of the policy areas under development between the UK and Ireland. The work of each subject committee is broadly structured around the agenda for policy development agreed between the governments of the United Kingdom and of Ireland at the UK-Ireland Summit held in Liverpool in March 2025.

Read the Joint Statement issued by the UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the Taoiseach Micheál Martin on 6 March 2025 here and here.

Prior to July 2015 the four Assembly subject committees were constituted as follows:

• Committee A (Sovereign Matters)
• Committee B (European Affairs)
• Committee C (Economic)
• Committee D (Environment and Social)

Click here for more information about the work undertaken by these committees before 2025.