 By 2011 all the major parties in Northern Ireland had agreed to the principle of ending double-jobbing.The legislation prohibited people from being a member of the House of Commons or the Republic of Ireland's Dáil Éireann as well as an MLA.The legislation banned double-jobbing from the 2016 Northern Ireland Assembly election but allowed those who currently held dual mandates to hold them until the election when they would have eight days to decide which legislature they wished to sit in.