Stormont Speaker Edwin Poots said MLAs had a "very loose interpretation of smart".

The Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly has followed up last ... told them it was "extremely discourteous" not to be in the chamber to ask a listed question. And in a letter to all 90 ...

MLAs turning up late for Assembly business – and then not apologising for not being there – “will not be tolerated”, Stormont Speaker Edwin Poots has warned.

Finnegan, from Crossmaglen, has served as a Sinn Féin councillor for the Slieve Gullion area of Newry, Mourne and Down ...

The Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly has said it is "out of order" for MLAs to claim he and others in the chair make ...

The IRA was under intense pressure tonight to end all paramilitary activity as Northern Ireland's Assembly and power sharing institutions prepared to make way for the return of direct rule from ...

The delay was due to a failure by DAERA to get the draft regulations before the Stormont Agriculture committee last Thursday, ...

Stormont Speaker Edwin Poots issues a reminder around protocol (NI Assembly/PA) “I see everything up here ... and I would encourage Members to dress smartly when they come to the chamber. “We’re not ...

Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) in the Northern Ireland Assembly have been given ... members to dress smartly when it comes to the chamber," he said. "We're not demanding that people ...