Ad hoc committees are formed for a single purpose: to carry out Committee Stage scrutiny of one private member’s bill, where no existing statutory or standing committee is the natural fit. They dissolve once that scrutiny work concludes. This one was set up to scrutinise the Assembly Members (Independent Remuneration Board) Bill.
Unlike a statutory committee, an ad hoc committee has no ongoing departmental remit — its membership and work are tied entirely to the bill that created it.
Who sat on it
The committee was chaired by Phillip Brett (Democratic Unionist Party), with Cathy Mason (Sinn Féin) as deputy chair. See the full roster on the committee’s page.
Its bill
The committee’s Committee Stage scrutiny is complete: the Assembly Members (Independent Remuneration Board) Bill has passed and received Royal Assent.
Data sources
Membership, chair and bill-stage data are drawn from the NI Assembly’s official committee and legislation records, kept up to date by the weekly Assembly sync.
See the committee’s full roster at mlas.news/committee/ad-hoc-committee-on-the-assembly-members-remuneration-board-bill/.