Assembly and Executive Review Committee

Minutes of Proceedings Tuesday 1 October 2024

Assembly and Executive Review Committee minutes of proceedings 1 October 2024.pdf (109.59 kb)

Meeting Location: Room 21, Parliament Buildings

Present:                   

Jonathan Buckley MLA (Chairperson)

Declan McAleer MLA (Deputy Chairperson)

Michelle Guy MLA

Michelle McIlveen MLA

Gary Middleton MLA

Matthew O’Toole MLA

Pat Sheehan MLA

Apologies:

None

In Attendance:       

Shane McAteer, Committee Clerk

Nick Mitford, Senior Assistant Clerk

Elaine Farrell, Assistant Clerk

Laura Gourley, Clerical Supervisor

Alison Ferguson, Clerical Officer

Ray McCaffery, Assembly Research Officer (agenda item 5)

The meeting commenced at 9.32 a.m. in open session

1.    Apologies

As above.

2.    Declaration of Interests

The Chairperson advised Members of the ongoing requirement to declare relevant financial or other interests as and when they arise and before taking part in any proceedings of the Assembly relating to that matter.

No interests were declared.

3.    Draft Minutes

Agreed: The Committee agreed the minutes of the meeting held on 20 March 2024.

4.    Matters arising

None.

5.    Comparative research on the work of other institutional review committees

The Assembly Research Officer joined the meeting at 9.34 a.m.

The Research Officer briefed the Committee and this was followed by a question and answer session.

Mr O’Toole joined the meeting at 9.46 a.m.

The Chairperson thanked the Research Officer for his briefing.

6.    Suggested topics for the AERC Work Programme

The Committee received a briefing from the Committee Clerk on the responses received from stakeholders on suggested topics for the Assembly and Executive Review Committee (AERC) work programme.

Agreed: The Committee noted the table of initial suggested topics and Members agreed to forward any further suggested topics to the Clerk.

Agreed: The Committee agreed to write to The Executive Office to request specific suggestions on work topics from the wider Executive.

Agreed: The Committee agreed for the secretariat to collate all potential topics into a list and to seek additional research or information on individual topics, as applicable, in order to inform the Committee’s further consideration and decisions on topic selection and prioritisation at a future meeting of the Committee.

7.    Correspondence

Agreed: The Committee noted the correspondence from the Committee on Procedures in which it had invited suggestions for potential work topics for its work programme.

Noted: The Committee noted the item of correspondence from a member of the public on a range of issues not relevant to the Committee’s functions.

Noted: The Committee noted the item of correspondence from a member of the public on Cubbies.

8.    AOB

None.

9.    Date, Time and Place of the next meeting

The Chairperson advised Members that the date of the next meeting of the AERC will be confirmed in due course.

The meeting was adjourned at 9.55 a.m.

Jonathan Buckley MLA

Chairperson, Assembly and Executive Review Committee

3 December 2024