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# Stormont deadlock broken
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/stormont-deadlock-broken/
- Published: 2008-11-18T17:11:54.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:42:17.000Z
- Author: Tom Griffin
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:49

**Tom Griffin (London,** [**OK**](https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom)**):** The Northen Ireland Executive is [set to meet](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern%5Fireland/7735489.stm?ref=opendemocracy.net) for the first time in months on Thursday after the DUP and Sinn Féin [agreed a way forward](http://www.northernireland.gov.uk/news/news-ofmdfm/news-ofmdfm-181108-statement-from-the.htm?ref=opendemocracy.net) on the disputed issue of policing and justice today.

Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness have [written](http://www.northernireland.gov.uk/assembly-and-executive-review-committee-correspondance.pdf?ref=opendemocracy.net) to the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive Review Committee, stating that a Justice Minister will be appointed under interim arrangements that will last until 2012.

The [planned process](http://www.northernireland.gov.uk/policing-and-juctice-process-paper.pdf?ref=opendemocracy.net) remains somewhat opaque, and there's a [lively debate over on Slugger](http://sluggerotoole.com/index.php/weblog/comments/one-source/?ref=opendemocracy.net) about who blinked first to allow the deal to happen.