[60][61] His seat remained vacant until the 2007 Northern Ireland Assembly election. It is understood that Johnson and his Irish counterpart, Leo Varadkar, will visit Belfast on Monday to meet the first minister and deputy first minister, and pledge their backing for the new power-sharing executive. 21 September 2020. To this end a new parliament, the Northern Ireland Assembly, was established in 1973. “After three years without devolved government, an executive can now get on with the job of delivering much needed reforms to the health service, education and justice.”. Boris Johnson hailed the restoration of powersharing as a momentous day. A by-election is still available as an option if the nominated person cannot take his or her seat but none have been held. Lord Alderdice served as the first Speaker of the Assembly from July 1998, but retired in March 2004 to serve as a member of the Independent Monitoring Commission that supervised paramilitary ceasefires. The Assembly can vote to dissolve itself early by a two-thirds majority of the total number of its members. At an unprecedented Saturday sitting of the regional parliament, assembly members elected the Democratic Unionist party (DUP) leader, Arlene Foster, as first minister, Sinn Féin’s deputy leader, Michelle O’Neill, as deputy first minister and her colleague Alex Maskey as the chamber’s speaker. Eileen Bell was appointed by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Peter Hain to be the Speaker of the Assembly, with Francie Molloy and Jim Wells acting as deputies. Import and export controls, external trade, Telecommunications, Broadcasting, Internet services, in appointing ministers to the Executive (except for the Minister of Justice), the, any vote taken by the Assembly can be made dependent on cross-community support if a, Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee, This page was last edited on 5 September 2020, at 18:56. ", "Stormont talks: Main NI parties agree power-sharing deal", "Section 4(1), Part I, Northern Ireland Act 1998", "Assembly Members (Reduction of Numbers) Act (Northern Ireland) 2016", "Stormont election: How results are calculated and reported", http://dev.mydup.com/images/uploads/publications/DUPStormontWorkBetter.pdf, "Assembly and Executive Reform (Assembly Opposition) Bill", "Assembly and Executive Reform (Assembly Opposition) Act (Northern Ireland) 2016", "NI21 to offer opposition: Basil McCrea and John McCallister", "UUP votes to withdraw from government over Provisional IRA claims", "Northern Ireland Executive ministers named: Independent Sugden named Justice Minister – DUP and Sinn Fein choose ministries", "Assembly election 'a brutal result for unionism, "The Northern Ireland Assembly – Chronology", "View registration – The Electoral Commission", "John Kelly's contribution to local politics in South Derry acknowledged", "It's a tie: DUP's Wells says removal of whip gives Sinn Fein equal voting power in Northern Ireland", "The Electoral Office of Northern Ireland - EONI", Lunn resigns from Alliance Party https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politics/trevor-lunn-resigns-from-alliance-party-39006363.htmltitle=Trevor Lunn resigns from Alliance Party, "Article 7, Northern Ireland Assembly (Elections) Order 2001", "Article 6, Northern Ireland Assembly (Elections) Order 2001", "Article 6, Northern Ireland Assembly (Elections) (Amendment) Order 2009", "Section 17, Northern Ireland (St Andrews Agreement) Act 2006", Standing Orders of the Northern Ireland Assembly, Northern Ireland Assembly awards outsourcing contract, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Northern_Ireland_Assembly&oldid=976900800, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Parties listed exclude those which have never held seats in the body; events exclude simple.