Northern Ireland’s powersharing assembly has been effectively collapsed for more than a year amid DUP protest action over Brexit arrangements.
Pressure is building on the UK and Irish governments to “do more” as the political stalemate in Northern Ireland is branded the “seventh circle of hell”.
During the meeting with the US politicians, Alliance MLA Kellie Armstrong said Northern Ireland is “in the political equivalent of the seventh circle of hell”. “The DUP are the people who need to take a decision about the Windsor Framework, I’m hoping that they can do that very quickly so that we can all get back.”
He said his party raised that with Irish premier Leo Varadkar when he visited Belfast earlier this month.“It is not a tenable situation to allow this to drift on. We’re moving now into the implementation phase of the protocol arrangements and the DUP are still holding out in terms of negotiations. Pressed for a timescale on her party’s discussions with the UK Government to secure what they need to return to Stormont, Ms Little-Pengelly said it could happen quickly with political willingness.
“We want to find solutions, we haven’t been prescriptive about what those are because we want to get the maximum flexibility.
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