Item 3 - Northern Ireland Assembly - Preliminary Work and Establishment

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File includes documents entitled "Departmental Structures and Central Machinery" (31 July 1998); "Time and Place of Assembly Meetings" (31 July 1998) and "Department of Agriculture - Structure" (31 Jul 1998); "Strategic Planning, Budgeting and Performance Unit"; "Economic Policy Unit" with outline of function, role, remit of same and across three distinct drafts; "Executive Strategy Unit"; Document with five bullet points re. structure of Office of First Minster/Deputy First Minister and with manuscript notes by Logue. Photocopy letter copied to Hugh Logue, signed by Marjorie (Mo) Mowlam, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, to R.B. Catell, Chief Executive, Keyspan Energy, Booklyn, New York, discussing investment in Northern Ireland.

Document "North-South Co-Operation" sent from Paul Murphy to David Trimble and Séamus Mallon, "The purpose of this paper is to provide the First Minister and Deputy First Minster with Officials' technical and operational assessments ....." (24 Aug 1998); Fax of news update "Flash Update From Dublin - Northern Ireland Agreement - A Good Start by Trimble; Hesitations from Sinn Féin" (21 Apr 1998); Photocopy of printed text of speech by Dr. Martin Mansergh, Special Advisor to the Taoiseach, at the John Hewitt Summer School, Co. Antrim (1 Aug 1998). Fax copy of printed speech by Prime Minister, The Rt. Hon. Tony Blair, M.P. at Belfast Waterfront Hall, 3 Sept 1998, a speech delivered in the wake of and reference to the Omagh Bombing.

Single print page (with coffee ring) "on July 15th I asked for leave of the assembly to make a personal statement about my position as Deputy First Minister (Designate)......"

File contains pink-coloured sub-folder with "Correspondence" written across its cover. Within in a text of statement "Deputy First Minister Welcomes Sinn Féin Leader's Statement" (1 Sept 1998); Press Release from Sinn Féin Press Centre, Belfast - "Keynote Statement from Gerry Adams M.P." (1 Sep 1998); Document entitled "1798 - A Unionist perspective" by Bill Brown, July 1998, with manuscript annotation by [Hugh Logue]; Letters between Paddy Kelly, Children's Law Centre, Belfast and Office of Séamus Mallon, The New Northern Ireland Assembly (Aug 1998) with discussions around foregrounding the protection of rights of children by the new Assembly.

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