【正确答案】 In 1973, an agreement was reached between the main political parties in Northern Ireland, and importantly, the British and Irish governments. This led to a new form for the Northern Irish Parliament, with a Power-Sharing mechanism to allow the minority Catholic population political influence. In 1974, the British Prime Minister Edward Heath set up a power-sharing executive which involved representatives from both the Republic and the North of Ireland as well as Great Britain in the governance of the North.