One of a series of Chatham House Rule meetings over dinner the guest speaker on this occasion was Peter Robinson MP MLA, the Finance Minister. Mr Robinson's theme for the evening eas ‘Meeting the Needs of the Economy and Wider Society’.
The Deputy Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party since 1988, Peter Robinson is also the DUP spokesperson for the Treasury in Westminster and is Vice Chair of the All-Party Northern Ireland Group. He was Minister for Regional Development from 1999 to 2000 and from 2000 to 2001; he is currently Minister for Finance and Personnel from 2007 to date.