70% of people want to see big changes to NI’s powersharing structures – survey

The same proportion believe the Good Friday Agreement has failed to deliver stable governance at Stormont, according to the poll.

Aerial view of the Parliament Buildings at Stormont in Belfast. (PA Archive)

More than two thirds of people in Northern Ireland believe big changes are required to the powersharing structures created by the Good Friday Agreement, a new survey has found.

The same proportion of the population, 70%, think the peace accord of 1998 has failed to deliver stable governance, according to the poll commissioned by Westminster’s Northern Ireland Affairs Committee.

That level of scepticism about the deal’s success in delivering stability remained consistent across age, religion and political affiliation.