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A list of Northern Ireland government departments, their agencies and their ministers and related organisations. The devolved government of Northern Ireland (the Northern Ireland Executive) is responsible for most public services in the region but some services are also provided by the United Kingdom Government and cross-border bodies under the North/South Ministerial Council.
Northern Ireland Assembly Committee on Standards and Privileges; ... This Wikipedia page is a list of government ministers in Northern Ireland. Government ministers
The Northern Ireland Executive consists of the First Minister and deputy First Minister and various ministers with individual portfolios and remits. The main assembly parties appoint most ministers in the executive, except for the Minister of Justice who is elected by a cross-community vote .
The First Minister and deputy First Minister share equal responsibilities within government, and their decisions are made jointly. The First Minister is, though, the first to greet official visitors to Northern Ireland and shares the same title as their counterparts in Scotland and Wales.
Northern Ireland portal; Politics portal; Government ministers, past and present in Northern Ireland, including ministers of the Government of Northern Ireland, 1921–1972, Direct Rule since 1972, Northern Ireland Executive, 1974 and Northern Ireland Executive since 1999.
A Northern Ireland Executive was created following the signing of the Sunningdale Agreement in 1974, while the current Northern Ireland Executive under the First Minister and Deputy First Minister, was created in the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement, and has intermittently been in existence from 1999 to the present.
This third Assembly was the first legislature in Northern Ireland to complete a full term since the Northern Ireland Parliament which convened between 1965 and 1969 [13] and saw powers in relation to policing and justice transferred from Westminster on 12 April 2010. Peter Robinson succeeded Ian Paisley as First Minister and DUP leader in 2008.
Commissioner for Standards at the Northern Ireland Assembly; Law. Supreme Court (UK) ... First Minister Deputy Parties (Ministries) 2011–2016 3rd: Peter Robinson [1]