Executive of the 1st Northern Ireland Assembly

The Executive of the 1st Northern Ireland Assembly (1 July 1998 – 14 October 2002) was, under the terms of the Northern Ireland Act 1998, a power-sharing coalition.

Following the first election to the new Northern Ireland Assembly the Ulster Unionist Party, the Social Democratic and Labour Party and Sinn Féin all took up their ministerial posts and formed an executive, the Democratic Unionist Party refused to attend meetings of the executive committee in protest at Sinn Féin's participation.

Full power was devolved to the Executive on 2 December 1999. This power was revoked by the Secretary of State on four occasions. The first was for a period of 3 months from 11 February 2000 – 30 May 2000 because of no arms decommissioning. The next two times were for periods of 24 hours on 10 August 2001 to help deal with arms negotiations and 21 September 2001 following the Holy Cross dispute. The final suspension came on 14 October 2002 after the Stormontgate controversy surrounding an alleged Provisional Irish Republican Army spy ring based in Stormont.

1st Executive of Northern Ireland OfficeNameTermPartyFirst MinisterDavid Trimble1998–01UUPDeputy First MinisterSeamus Mallon1998–01SDLPChanges 2 December 1999OfficeNameTermPartyMinister of Agriculture and Rural DevelopmentBríd Rodgers1999–00SDLPMinister of Culture, Arts and LeisureMichael McGimpsey1999–00UUPMinister of EducationMartin McGuinness1999–00Sinn FéinMinister for Employment and LearningSean Farren1999–00SDLPMinister of Enterprise, Trade and InvestmentReg Empey1999–00UUPMinister of the EnvironmentSam Foster1999–00UUPMinister of Finance and PersonnelMark Durkan1999–00SDLPMinister of Health, Social Services and Public SafetyBairbre de Brún1999–00Sinn FéinMinister for Regional DevelopmentPeter Robinson1999–00DUPMinister for Social DevelopmentNigel Dodds1999–00DUPChanges 11 February 2000OfficeNameTermPartyMinister of Agriculture and Rural DevelopmentOffice suspended 2000Minister of Culture, Arts and LeisureOffice suspended 2000Minister of EducationOffice suspended 2000Minister for Employment and LearningOffice suspended 2000Minister of Enterprise, Trade and InvestmentOffice suspended 2000Minister of the EnvironmentOffice suspended 2000Minister of Finance and PersonnelOffice suspended 2000Minister of Health, Social Services and Public SafetyOffice suspended 2000Minister for Regional DevelopmentOffice suspended 2000Minister for Social DevelopmentOffice suspended 2000Changes 30 May 2000OfficeNameTermPartyMinister of Agriculture and Rural DevelopmentBríd Rodgers2000–02SDLPMinister of Culture, Arts and LeisureMichael McGimpsey2000–02UUPMinister of EducationMartin McGuinness2000–02Sinn FéinMinister for Employment and LearningSean Farren2000–01SDLPMinister of Enterprise, Trade and InvestmentReg Empey2000–02UUPMinister of the EnvironmentSam Foster2000–02UUPMinister of Finance and PersonnelMark Durkan2000–01SDLPMinister of Health, Social Services and Public SafetyBairbre de Brún2000–02Sinn FéinMinister for Regional DevelopmentPeter Robinson2000–01DUPMinister for Social DevelopmentNigel Dodds2000DUPChanges 1 July 2001OfficeNameTermPartyFirst MinisterReg Empey (acting) 2001UUPChanges 27 July 2001OfficeNameTermPartyMinister for Regional DevelopmentGregory Campbell 2001DUPMinister for Social DevelopmentMaurice Morrow 2000–01DUPChanges 24 October 2001OfficeNameTermPartyMinister for Regional DevelopmentPeter Robinson2001–02DUPMinister for Social DevelopmentNigel Dodds2001–02DUPChanges 6 November 2001OfficeNameTermPartyFirst MinisterDavid Trimble2001–02UUPdeputy First MinisterMark Durkan2001–02SDLPChanges 14 December 2001OfficeNameTermPartyMinister for Employment and LearningCarmel Hanna2001–02SDLPMinister of Finance and PersonnelSean Farren2001–02SDLPChanges 20 February 2002OfficeNameTermPartyMinister of the EnvironmentDermot Nesbitt2002UUP

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See also List of Northern Ireland Executives Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly elected in 2007