And they are having to work more closely with other ministers in programme reviews that span departmental boundaries.
Last month EU farm ministers approved a programme to destroy all older non-BSE tested cattle to keep them out of the food chain, affecting up to two million animals.
Committee members will then decide whether or not to recommend the introduction of a screening programme to ministers.
Ministers were concerned the programme was being held back because groups coming forward to set up free schools could not find suitable premises where there was permission to have a school.
Ministers claim that this programme is achieving great things.
Northern Ireland's first and deputy first ministers have outlined the legislative programme for the assembly for the coming year.
We got a glimpse this week of where the rocket is heading after research ministers approved a 600m euros programme of developments at their European Space Agency council meeting in Naples.
The work programme was part of what ministers called a revolution in welfare.
The Refugee Action group said questions remained about the proposals but it was encouraged ministers were exploring a "practical global programme to help address the world's refugee crisis".
He said it was not surprising there had been a lack of clarity, given such a huge and radical programme of reform, and urged ministers to "review and take stock of how many loose ends there are".
It was Thatcher who insisted that 'nothing can stop the great car economy' and her ministers who announced 'the biggest road-building programme since the Romans'.
David Trimble and Seamus Mallon said Bills sponsored by the DUP would be included in the programme, provided the detailed proposals of ministers were approved by the executive committee.
The Greek programme that was debated last night by eurozone ministers involves spending cuts and tax rises worth 7% of GDP in 2013-14, the majority in the first year.
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Speaking on BBC Radio 4'sToday programme, the Prime Minister said that both Ministers made valid points, but it was a practical not an ideological issue that could be resolved amicably.
The programme looked to be in disarray earlier this week when ministers failed to agree a deal with the British Medical Association, the doctors' trade union, to get GPs to give the immunisations as they have been doing in the first wave.
It calls on ministers to press for sufficient European Union funds to maintain and expand the Erasmus-Socrates programme, which sets up student exchanges in Europe.
But Mr Hague, responding for the government, said ministers needed to retain all their options as they tried to pressure Tehran into abandoning its nuclear programme.
All the eurozone ministers have to do is agree in principle to fill the funding gap in the Greek economic programme, which they will now do on Sunday.
Leaving aside the question of what Parliament will do for the next few months, given the gaping hole in the legislative programme left by the demise of Lords reform, I wonder how many other new ministers will be seeking to re-write live legislation.
Ministers started considering ending the scheme this year, instead of 2014 as originally planned, after a review found the programme was not performing.
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