NI power-sharing: As Stormont ministers leave, how did they do?

Stormont's departments no longer have ministers, not even in a caretaker capacity.

The ministers who were in post when the assembly collapsed with the resignation of Paul Givan as first minister remained in their departments.

After May's election, they returned for the duration of the 24 weeks given to parties to reform the Northern Ireland Executive.

That time has now passed and the day-to-day running of Stormont's departments will pass to civil servants.

However during that period. without a first and deputy first minister, ministers could not make decisions which were seen to be cross-cutting, or needing the support of the executive as a whole.

BBC News NI's editors and correspondents look back at their time at the helm.

The DUP did not agree to all the proposals in his draft budget and the issues had not been resolved by the time the executive collapsed in February 2022.

A legacy of Mr Murphy's time in office is the creation of an independent budget watchdog, the Fiscal Council.

It will fall to his successor to deliver the detailed policy and legislation that the strategy requires.

The response to the energy price crisis has been largely the responsibility of Whitehall's Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, partially because of the lack of an executive.

This meant Mr Lyons's supporting role was mainly about reassuring households and businesses that help was coming.

His most eye-catching announcement was the launch of the £100 high street voucher scheme, a pandemic recovery measure originally devised under his predecessor Diane Dodds.

John O'Dowd only became the minister in May, after the SDLP decided not to retain the post when its deputy leader Nichola Mallon lost her seat in the assembly election that month.

During her tenure in office, she faced issues with backlogs in the driving test and MoT systems and warned that her department's shrinking budget could mean tough spending decisions for public transport operator Translink and NI Water.

Days before leaving office, Mr O'Dowd announced he was keeping public transport fares frozen for another 12 months due to the cost-of-living crisis - one of the few areas where he has power in the absence of an executive.

Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey was responsible for benefits and pensions, recipients of which have been hardest hit by the cost-of-living crisis and soaring inflation.

This support was also particularly important during the pandemic when a £20 uplift in universal credit was introduced to help low-income families - that uplift came to an end in 2021.

Experts from the Resolution Foundation said the end of the uplift hit Northern Ireland harder than the rest of the UK as there are about 136,000 people here on universal credit.

Earlier this year, Ms Hargey introduced a £55m scheme to give one-off payments of £200 to 280,000 people in Northern Ireland to help with energy costs.

In his time as Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs minister, Edwin Poots also went through cancer surgery and - briefly - found himself DUP party leader.

He introduced the new Future Agricultural Policy, described as the biggest shake-up in agriculture for 50 years as it changed how farmers got paid.

Mr Poots' bill was amended to set a net-zero target of 2050 with a 46% limit to the required reduction in methane, primarily produced by agriculture.

Farmers argue that move fulfilled his January 2020 pledge to protect the environment while enhancing the economically significant agri-food sector, even as the UK's Climate Change Committee said it "significantly inhibited" Northern Ireland's ability to reach net zero.

But any wider reform has been shelved until the Independent Review of Northern Ireland's Education system reports in 2023.

That will be for her successor to deliver, but they are likely to face big problems with a squeezed education budget and teachers looking for a pay deal to match the cost of living.

He became health minister just weeks before the pandemic hit.

Taking his lead from Westminster, he steered the local Covid ship with steady hands, placing the public first ahead of politics.

It will be up to the UK Covid inquiry to scrutinise the performance of all health ministers.

Beyond Covid, his legacy becomes a little greyer.

The abortion issue was fudged and parked several times, and only this week the secretary of state stepped in and said he will ensure that services are now commissioned in Northern Ireland.

On the other big tickets - cancer, waiting lists and mental health - work is well under way but it will be some time before any progress is felt.

Justice Minister Naomi Long has overseen the passage of five pieces of legislation on touchstone issues like domestic abuse, which accounts for almost 20% of all reported crimes in Northern Ireland.

She leaves the Department of Justice at a time when it is facing massive financial challenges.