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Make St Patrick's Day a public holiday in N Ireland

Submitted on Tuesday 20th March 2012

Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)

Petition Action

Make St Patrick's Day a public holiday in N Ireland

Additional Information

Let everyone in Northern Ireland have a public holiday on St Patrick's Day, 17th March each year


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

The petition cannot be accepted because St Patrick's Day is already a bank holiday in Northern Ireland and has been one since 1903. There is no such thing in law as as a 'public holiday'. Holidays are either bank holidays or holidays that are taken by custom and practice such as Christmas day and Good Friday. Bank holidays do not confer automatic leave entitlement - that is a matter between employers and employees and individual employment contracts. It would be for the Northern Ireland Assembly to legislate for how St Patrick's day is observed and if they wished businesses and schools etc to remain open or closed.

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