1 May 2020 — News story. The First Minister is, though, the first to greet official visitors to Northern Ireland and shares the same title as their counterparts in Specifically, they are tasked with co-chairing meetings of the The First Minister and deputy First Minister agree the agenda of Executive meetingsThe nominees for First Minister and deputy First Minister required the support of: This time Mrs Foster faces a new set of challenges, as she heads the executive alongside Michelle O'Neill, who replaces the late Martin McGuinness as deputy first minister. Officials edited the department's archive of press releases to make that change (despite its use by Mallon and Durkan when in office) but the capital D still appears in some places, and a spokesman confirmed on 20 March 2008 that the office had "no plans" to change the OFMDFM logo. As of 2020, this latter method has never yet been used. The titles appear in both English and Irish in published literature by the North-South Ministerial Council, one of the "mutually inter-dependent" institutions laid out in the Good Friday Agreement, along with the Northern Ireland Assembly.Various ways of translating the titles "First Minister and deputy First Minister" into the The second position has been spelt "Deputy" or "deputy" First Minister, due to differing preferences by civil servants (and potentially ministers), although the spelling of the title has no constitutional consequences in practice. In the Irish language, the literal translation of these positions is "Céad-Aire agus an leas Chéad-Aire". In dieser Zeit wurde das Amt des Ersten Ministers und des stellvertretenden ersten Ministers durch den Nordirland-Minister wahrgenommen. Ultimately it was decided that McGuinness should be the deputy First Minister, unless all the other letters in the title are in capitals. There are two living former First Ministers and one living former deputy First Minister, not including those who served as acting: Der First Minister and deputy First Minister (deutsch: Erster Minister und stellvertretender Erster Minister, irisch: an Céad-Aire agus an leas-Chéad-Aire) sind Positionen in der Exekutive Nordirlands.Sie stehen dem Büro des Ersten Ministers und stellvertretenden Ersten Ministers von Nordirland (engl.Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister, OFMDFM) vor. This procedure was used on 2 December 1999 to elect This procedure, which removed the need for a joint ticket between the unionist The new rules from 2006 also state that, if the largest party of the largest designation happens not to also be the largest party in the assembly overall, then the appointment procedure would be as follows: Martin McGuinness used the term Joint First Minister himself when he arrived for a meeting of the With the resoration of power sharing in 2020 Sinn Féin started describing the position as "joint head of government".Paisley announced his intention to resign on 4 March 2008.During the periods of suspension, the Secretaries of State for Northern Ireland assumed the responsibilities of the First Minister and deputy First Minister. Stormont Castle is home to the Northern Ireland Executive and the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister. The governing of Northern Ireland fell to civil servants in a caretaker capacity until January 2020, when the parties came to an agreement and an Executive was subsequently established.