Committee for Finance facts for kids

The Committee for Finance is a special group of people from the Northern Ireland Assembly. Their main job is to help, advise, and check on the work of the Department of Finance and its Minister. They also play a big part in creating new laws about money and how it's used.

Before 2016, this group was called the Committee for Finance and Personnel.

Who is on the Committee?

This committee has nine members. These are the people who are currently part of the Committee for Finance. They come from different political parties in Northern Ireland.

Leaders of the Committee

The Chairperson is like the leader of the committee. They help guide discussions and make sure the committee does its job. Here are the people who have been the Chairperson of the Committee for Finance over the years.

	Minister	Image	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		UUP	14 January 2020	Present

See also

• Committee