William Hay (politician)
William Hay, Baron Hay of Ballyore (born April 16, 1950 in County Donegal ) is a Northern Irish politician. He is currently a member of the House of Lords .
Life
William Hay attended Faughan Valley High School in Drumahoe , County Londonderry . In 1981 he was elected to the Londonderry City Council for the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) . 1991-1992 he served as deputy mayor and 1992-1993 as mayor of Derry . In 1998 he was elected to the Northern Irish Parliament. In the same year he became a member of the Northern Ireland Housing Council and the Londonderry Port and Harbor Commission and in 2001 a member of the Northern Ireland Policing Board , a control body for the Northern Ireland police. On 8 May 2007 he was appointed Speaker of the Northern Ireland Parliament ( Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly elected). On October 6, 2014, for health reasons, he announced his resignation from his post as spokesman and as a member of parliament on October 13, 2014.
William Hay was nominated as a Life Peer for the House of Lords in August 2014 . He announced that he would sit there as an independent ( Crossbencher ). His admission to the House of Lords was then delayed for a few months until he was finally accepted into the House of Lords on December 16, 2014 as Baron Hay of Ballyore , of Ballyore in the City of Londonderry.
Married to Doris McMorris, Hay is also a prominent member of the Orange Order and the Apprentice Boys of Derry , a Protestant brotherhood.
He is an Irish citizen and holds an Irish passport to avoid paying a £ 860 naturalization fee for a British passport required of anyone born in the Republic of Ireland after 1946.
Individual evidence
- ^ NI Assembly Speaker William Hay to retire as MLA
- ↑ BBC News, August 8, 2014 .
- ↑ Lord Hay of Ballyore
- ↑ BBC News, July 11, 2010
- ↑ Liam Clarke: Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness to make it easier to be British . In: The Belfast Telegraph , July 8, 2011.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hay, William |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hay, William, Baron Hay of Ballyore |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Northern Irish politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | County Donegal |