Michelle McIlveen

Michelle McIlveen
MLA
Minister of Regional Development
Assumed office
21 September 2015[note 1]
Preceded by Danny Kennedy
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
for Strangford
Assumed office
7 March 2007
Preceded by John Taylor
Personal details
Born (1971-01-21) 21 January 1971
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Nationality British
Political party Democratic Unionist Party
Alma mater Queen's University, Belfast
Religion Free Presbyterian

Michelle McIlveen, MLA is a politician from Northern Ireland. She was elected in 2007 to the Northern Ireland Assembly as a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) member for Strangford.

She is the DUP spokesperson on children and young people. She is also a former councillor on Ards Borough Council, to which she was first elected in 2005.[1]

McIlveen served as the Junior Minister in the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister. On 1 September 2015, Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) minister Danny Kennedy resigned from the Department for Regional Development after his party's decision to withdraw from the Northern Ireland Executive (because of allegations of the Provisional IRA's continued existence by Police Service of Northern Ireland Chief Constable George Hamilton).[2] Under Northern Ireland Assembly rules, when a Department Minister resigns, their party has seven working days to replace the minister or the position is given to another party under the D'Hondt method. This then fell to the DUP, who were undertaking a cycle of ministerial resignations/appointments/resignations at the time over the IRA allegations to avoid losing their ministries to other parties like the UUP. The position of Minister for Regional Development lay vacant until 28 September 2015. McIlveen was appointed as minister, with Emma Pengelly replacing her as Junior Minister.

References

  1. ↑ Resigned on 21 September 2015, re-entered office on 23 Sept. till 24 Sept., then 30 Sept.-1 Oct. 2015. Following the 20 October she permanently occupies the office
  1. ↑ Ards Borough Council
  2. ↑

External links

Northern Ireland Assembly
Preceded by
John Taylor, Baron Kilclooney		 MLA for Strangford
2007 - 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
Party political offices
Preceded by
Nigel Dodds		 Party Secretary of the Democratic Unionist Party
2008–present 		Incumbent


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