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view • talk • edit | The Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly is the presiding officer of the Northern Ireland Assembly, elected on a cross-community vote by the Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly. Three Deputy Speakers are elected to help fulfil the role. The Office of the Speaker is in Parliament Buildings, Stormont, Belfast. Information on politics by country is available for every country, including both de jure and de facto independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. ...
The Presiding Officer (Oifigear-Riaghlaidh in Scots Gaelic) is the person elected by the Members of the Scottish Parliament to chair their meetings. ...
This is a list of members of the Northern Ireland Assembly. ...
Stormont is Stormont, a suburb of Belfast Stormont Castle, a castle in the area Parliament Building of Northern Ireland, known as Stormont a nickname for the former Parliament of Northern Ireland and its unionist-dominated executive, the Government of Northern Ireland Stormont County an old county that is now a...
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The Speaker is also the Chairman of the Assembly Commission, the body corporate of the Assembly, and the Chairman of the Assembly Business Committee.
Upon election the Speaker must relinquish all party political affiliations.
The first person to hold the position was Lord Alderdice, appointed by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in 1998. Initially, he was referred to as the Initial Presiding Officer, becoming known as the Speaker upon devolution in December 1999. He left office in 2004. The Right Honourable John Thomas Alderdice, Baron Alderdice (b. ...
The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is the British cabinet minister who has responsibility for the government of Northern Ireland. ...
Eileen Bell held the office of Speaker in the Assembly establised under the Northern Ireland Act 2006 which met between May and October 2006 and in the Transitional Assembly established under the Northern Ireland (St Andrews Agreement) Act 2006 which met between November 2006 and March 2007. She has not held the office of Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly. Eileen Bell (born August 15, 1943) is a Northern Ireland politician, member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for North Down and deputy leader of the Alliance Party. ...
The logo of the Northern Ireland Assembly, a six flowered linen or flax plant. ...
The St Andrews Agreement, or Comhaontú Chill RÃmhinn in Irish, is an agreement proposed by the British and Irish Governments in relation to the devolution of power to the Northern Ireland Assembly. ...
The first item of business for the Northern Ireland Assembly when it meets, as expected, on 8 May 2007 will be to elect a new Speaker. As the previous Speaker (Lord Alderdice) has retired and as none of the current Deputy Speakers (Donovan McClelland, Jane Morrice and Jim Wilson) were returned to the Assembly in the March 2007 election, the oldest member of the Assembly will take the chair as Acting Speaker at the first meeting of the Assembly in order to elect a new Speaker. The oldest MLA elected in March 2007 is Ian Paisley. . ...
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Ian Richard Kyle Paisley (born 6 April 1926), styled The Revd and Rt Hon. ...
Speakers
| Speaker | Party on taking office | Took office | Left office | | | Lord Alderdice | Alliance | 1 July 1998 | 29 February 2004 | | | (position vacant) | | 1 March 2004 | 7 May 2007 | | | William Hay | Democratic Unionist | 8 May 2007 | | The Right Honourable John Thomas Alderdice, Baron Alderdice (b. ...
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Deputy Speakers Sir John Reginald Gorman, CVO, CBE, MC, DL, (b. ...
Donovan McClelland (b. ...
Jane Morrice was a prominent member of the Northern Ireland Womens Coalition until the NIWC ceased to exist in 2006 due to an ongoing electoral decline. ...
There are a number of notable people named Jim Wilson. ...
Francie Molloy MLA is a Sinn Féin politician and a deputy speaker of the Transitional Assembly (Northern Ireland). ...
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