Committee on Standards and Privileges

Welcome to the Home Page of the Committee on Standards and Privileges. The Committee has been established to consider specific matters relating to privilege referred to it by the Assembly.

The Committee will oversee the work of the Assembly Clerk of Standards; to examine the arrangements for the compilation, maintenance and accessibility of the Register of Members' Interests and any other registers of interest established by the Assembly; to reveiw from time to time the form and content of those registers; and to consider any specific complaints made in relation to the registering or declaring of interests referred to it.

The Committee will consider any matter relating to the conduct of Members, including specific complaints in relation to alleged breaches in any code of conduct to which the Assembly has agreed and which have been drawn to the Committee's attention; and to recommend any modifications to such code of conduct as may from time to time appear to be necessary.

The Committee shall be appointed at the commencement of every Assembly and shall have power to send for persons, papers and records that are relevant to its enquiries.

Here you will find information about the Committee membership and the work of the Committee.

Membership(11)

Democratic Unionist Party	Mr Alastair Ross 1
	Mr Jonathan Craig 5
	Mr Allan Bresland
	Mr David Hilditch
Sinn Fein	Mr Francie Brolly
	Mr Willie Clarke (Deputy Chairperson) 2
	Mr Paul Maskey 3,4
Social Democratic and Labour Party	Mr Declan O'Loan (Chairperson) 6
Ulster Unionist Party	Mr George Savage
	Rev Dr Robert Coulter
Green Party	Mr Brian Wilson

 

 

 

 

 

 

¹ Mr Alastair Ross replaced Mr Adrian McQuillan with effect from 29 May 2007.
² With effect from 21 January 2008 Mr Willie Clarke replaced Mr Gerry McHugh as Deputy Chairperson
³ With effect from 28 January 2008 Mrs Claire McGill replaced Mr Gerry McHugh
⁴ With effect from 20 May Mr Paul Maskey replaced Ms Claire McGill.
⁵ With effect from 15 September 2008 Mr Jonathan Craig replaced Mr Alex Easton.
⁶ With effect from 3 July 2009 Mr Declan O'Loan replaced Mrs Carmel Hanna

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Committee Clerk: Mr Paul Gill
Address: Room 284, Parliament Buildings, Stormont, Belfast, BT4 3XX
Telephone: (028) 9052 0333
Fax: (028) 9052 1597
E-mail: committee.standards&privileges@niassembly.gov.uk