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The Stormont Assembly will be recalled at noon on Wednesday in a further attempt to restore powersharing in Northern Ireland.
A petition tabled by Sinn Fein gained the requisite 30 MLA signatures to secure the recall today. It will ve the fifth recall since May this year. It stated: "That this Assembly expresses deep concern that struggling families and households have not received the £600 payment that many are desperately relying on; calls on the DUP to end its boycott of this Assembly; and supports the immediate appointment of an Executive to provide urgent help for those struggling with the cost-of-living crisis through the winter months."
The Assembly will sit at 12pm with the first item of business being the election of a Speaker and Deputy Speakers. If the Assembly does not elect a Speaker and Deputies no other business can take place. We will have all the latest updates and reaction from Stormont's sitting at noon on our blog below...To the DUP, he said: "I know you think you can scream and winge and whine like a girl from the sidelines. That's up to you."Doug Beattie added: "I am a big enough man to say when I get something wrong, I got it wrong and I will apologise. I got it wrong. I used a terminology.
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