Committee for Finance

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The Committee for Finance is a Northern Ireland Assembly committee established to advise, assist and scrutinise the work of the Department of Finance and the Minister of Finance (currently Caoimhe Archibald). The committee also plays a key role in the consultation, consideration and development of new legislation.^[1]

Until 2016, the committee was called the Committee for Finance and Personnel.

2022–2027 Assembly

The committee will meet for the first time in the 2022–2027 Assembly on 14 February 2024.

	Member^[2]	Constituency
SDLP	Matthew O'Toole MLA (Chairperson)	Belfast South
DUP	Diane Forsythe MLA (Deputy Chairperson)	South Down
Ulster Unionist	Steve Aiken MLA	South Antrim
DUP	Phillip Brett MLA	Belfast North
Sinn Féin	Nicola Brogan MLA	West Tyrone
People Before Profit	Gerry Carroll MLA	Belfast West
DUP	Paul Frew MLA	North Antrim
Sinn Féin	Deirdre Hargey MLA	Belfast South
Alliance	Eóin Tennyson MLA	Upper Bann

Chairpersons

	Minister	Party	Took office	Left office
	Francie Molloy	Sinn Féin	30 November 1999	28 April 2003
Office suspended
	Mitchel McLaughlin	Sinn Féin	9 May 2007	8 September 2009
	Jennifer McCann	Sinn Féin	9 September 2009	19 January 2011
	Daithí McKay	Sinn Féin	20 January 2011	25 March 2011
	Conor Murphy	Sinn Féin	16 May 2011	1 July 2012
	Daithí McKay	Sinn Féin	2 July 2012	6 May 2016
	Emma Little-Pengelly	DUP	25 May 2016	26 January 2017
Office suspended
	Steve Aiken	Ulster Unionist	14 January 2020	Present

References

^ Finance and Personnel Committee - niassembly.gov.uk Archived 2008-12-28 at the Wayback Machine, URL accessed 25 November 2008.
^ "Committee Membership". www.niassembly.gov.uk. Retrieved 13 February 2024.

External links

Committee for Finance and Personnel

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