She has served as Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) since 2015 and Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Fermanagh and South Tyrone since 2003. It’s all about balance. Foster served in the Northern Ireland Executive as Minister of the Environment from 2007 until 2008, Minister for Enterprise and Investment from 2008 until 2015 and Minister for Finance and Personnel from 2015 until 2016. Let’s explore in detail about Arlene’s wiki below: A post shared by Mark Kerrison (@markkerrisonphoto) on Nov 21, 2017 at 5:05pm PST. She has said: "Everybody knows that Peter and I worked very closely together, but Doc (the late Rev Ian Paisley) and I had a very good relationship too. In March 2014, Foster called for an apology for what she described as "deeply insulting" language" in a comment made by fellow MLA Anna Lo of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland. Lo had described herself as "anti-colonial" and said the partition of Ireland was "artificial". We will update Arlene Foster's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible. “Queen Elizabeth II may be small in stature, but even now at 90 years of age she remains a towering presence. The pair tied the knot on August 25, 1995, at Holy Trinity Church, Lisnaskea. No nomination was made before 16 January, resulting in the collapse of the Executive. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer.

But because of Sinn Féin's selfish reactions, we now have instability, and I very much regret that." When senior civil servants suggested the closure of the scheme in September 2015, the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister (now the Executive Office) pressured the department to keep the scheme open, which is when there was a spike in applications. She was succeeded by Jonathan Bell and became the Minister for Finance and Personnel on 11 May 2015. Foster attended Enniskillen Collegiate Grammar School in 1982 where she studied till 1989. Foster has also vowed to oppose same sex marriage using a controversial "petition of concern" to clock a change in the law. [9] After leaving Queen's University she remained active in the UUP, chairing its youth wing, the Ulster Young Unionist Council, in 1995. On 8 May 2007, she became the Minister for the Environment for which she remained in the post till 9 June 2008 and became the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Investment. Foster served as the Minister for the Environment from 2007 to 2008, Minister for Enterprise and Investment for seven years from 2008 to 2015. "When you get a woman in the leadership role, as I will be, that will encourage other young women to get involved as well.". Foster was born in 1970, a year after the Troubles erupted, and grew up near the border in rural County Fermanagh where Protestants felt besieged by IRA attacks. Likewise, since 2003, she is serving as the Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Fermanagh and South Tyrone. The scheme was set to cost the taxpayer £490 million and there were allegations of corruption surrounding it. While the Government talked about restoring the Executive as a "top priority" the constitutional impasse has made it impossible. Hutchinson also stated: "There is no room for violence in this society. [4] She is a member of the Church of Ireland. As part of her tourism strategy, Mrs Foster was keen to attract big events to Northern Ireland. Foster's party is one of the many in Stormont upholding Northern Ireland’s abortion ban, which makes it a criminal offence to have a termination even in the case of incest, rape or fatal foetal abnormality. Terror struck again when as a teenager in 1988 a bomb exploded under a school bus she was in that was being driven by a part-time soldier in the Army's Ulster Defence Regiment. Susan McKay. Foster became a solicitor and joined the Ulster Unionist party (UUP) but opposed the leadership’s endorsement of the 1998 Good Friday agreement, deeming it soft on the IRA. In May 2018, she announced she would be leading an Orange Order march in Fife, Scotland.