The Assembly will now be recalled on Wednesday at 12pm but, unless the DUP drops its stance, the bid will end in failure
The Stormont Assembly is to be recalled as rival parties attempt to ramp up the pressure on the DUP to end its boycott of powersharing.
Read more: Causeway Coast and Wild Atlantic Way set to be connected under multimillion-pound brand link The latest recall petition is centred around the cost-of-living crisis, with Sinn Fein's motion calling for a debate on why people in Northern Ireland have not received energy support payments. The lack of clarity on when the Treasury-funded payments will be made has become the focus of intense political dispute amid the ongoing powersharing vacuum.
While consumers in the rest of the UK have already begun to receive support payments, there has been no decision about how and when they will be made in Northern Ireland.
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