Northern Ireland's top civil servant HeadNICS Jayne Brady is expected to hold a meeting with the Stormont parties later on Thursday
Northern Ireland's top civil servant is expected to hold a meeting with the Stormont parties later on Thursday.
Jayne Brady's talks with the parties have focused on how to run government in a future executive, in the context of a challenging budget position.He said he believed a resolution of the difficulties was "getting much closer". But Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said she did not hear any urgency on the part of the UK government to restore Stormont during her talks.
The Democratic Unionist Party has insisted new legislation is needed before it will end its 18-month boycott over post-Brexit trade rules. The party walked out of Stormont's power-sharing executive in February 2022 in protest over a Brexit deal which introduced new checks and restrictions on goods moving from Britain to Northern Ireland.
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