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Forward Work Programme for the Committee

2008

 

2008

 

 

October

 

January/February

March

May

 

 

 

 

 

October
14.10.08 11:00 am Room 144 Committee Meeting (Public)
21.10.08 11:00 am Room 144 Committee Meeting (Public)
RECESS
25.10.08 – 2.11.08

 

 

 

 

 

The Committee completes the Report to the Assembly, as to the preparations that the Assembly has made , and intends to make, having regard to paragraph 7 of the St Andrews Agreement, for or in connection with policing and justice matters ceasing to be reserved matters.

The NI Assembly must make an associated report to the SoS before 27 March 2008 as to the preparations that the Assembly has made, and intends to make, having regard to paragraph 7 of the St Andrews Agreement, for or in connection with policing and justice matters ceasing to be reserved matters.

Achieved

Proposed date for devolution of policing and justice functions .

[Complete no later than 2 years and 10 months after Devolution of Policing and Justice, a Report on the operation of Ministerial arrangements in a Policing and Justice Department]

Possible elections to shadow Councils.

 

2009

 

2010

2011

 

 

2015

June

Late

 

February

March

Mid

May

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Consider Assembly voting system, designations and cross-community voting.

 

 

 

Possible Westminster and European Parliament Elections.

Review the operation of Ministerial Code

 

 

Review the operation of the power to refer Ministerial Decisions to the Executive Committee

 

Consider the size of the Assembly and the number of MLAs

 

In conjunction with FM and dFM review the number of Ministerial Offices held and the functions exercisable by the holder of each office. Prior to next Assembly elections

By 1 February the Committee to have considered whether to recommend that the SoS should make an order to amend the NI Act 98 as from the date of the election of the 2011 Assembly, as if the executive selection amendments had not been made.

Earliest date by which the Committee must complete a Report on the operation of Ministerial arrangements in a Policing and Justice Department.

Possible Northern Ireland Assembly Elections.

By no later than 1 May 2015 report on the operation of the provisions of Parts 3 & 4 of the 1998 Act.