"What happened last week fell way short of standards, " Mr Poots told the Northern Ireland Assembly.
There was also criticism from a Sinn Fein member of the Northern Ireland Assembly, Alex Maskey.
We can count the Speakers of the Scottish Parliament and the Northern Ireland Assembly among our colleagues.
Following election to the new Northern Ireland Assembly, Sinn Fein nominated Mr McGuinness to become education minister.
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There has been a score of killings, gun-running, punishment shootings and espionage in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Northern Ireland Assembly members have voted in favour of the biggest shake-up of social security benefits for decades.
Ian Paisley, once mortal enemies and now colleagues in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
But on Tuesday he said the Northern Ireland Assembly was bound come to tumbling down if the motion fails.
As well as being a Northern Ireland Assembly member, Mr Adams is also a Member of the UK Parliament.
Peter Robinson was speaking in the Northern Ireland Assembly as a debate on his first budget got under way.
Two Northern Ireland Assembly committees are holding a special meeting on Tuesday to debate the issue of contaminated meat.
The Northern Ireland Assembly has been suspended since October 2002, amid allegations of an IRA spy ring at Stormont.
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He will now concentrate on his role in the devolved Northern Ireland Assembly.
Committees drawn from all parties in the currently powerless Northern Ireland Assembly would liaise between government departments and the Assembly.
The opening of a Marie Stopes clinic led to demonstrations and scrutiny by a committee in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
In the Northern Ireland Assembly two committees have been told that contaminated meat points to fraudulent activity and to Europe.
The amendment to the criminal justice bill will be debated and voted on in the Northern Ireland Assembly next Tuesday.
Paul Frew, the chair of the Northern Ireland Assembly's agriculture committee, said he was shocked that the horsemeat had been found.
In common with the Northern Ireland Assembly, Belfast City Council uses the D'Hondt system to decide how posts are divided out.
The Northern Ireland Assembly Finance Committee, however, has suggested extending the scheme.
Mr Bradley said the Northern Ireland Assembly, Northern Ireland Local Government Association (NILGA) and the majority of councils were supporting new legislation.
But not before the matter was discussed in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
The leader of the nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party, John Hume, has confirmed he is to resign from the Northern Ireland Assembly.
The elections to the 108-seat Northern Ireland assembly take place on Thursday June 25 with counting beginning on the morning of Friday June 26.
Among other things it would end the "dual mandate" which allows some politicians to serve both on the Northern Ireland Assembly and as MPs.
The document was published after the prime minister postponed elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly which were due to take place on 29 May.
The orders will give effect to the historic vote at Stormont earlier this month when Northern Ireland Assembly members voted in favour of the transfer.
Mr Trimble was elected as First Minister designate of the new Northern Ireland assembly in July 1998, with the nationalist Seamus Mallon as his deputy.
But at least there is now a new focus and the two most difficult subjects have been tackled, the Northern Ireland assembly and cross-border arrangements.
He officially leaves office on Friday and was due to appear before the Northern Ireland Assembly Committee for Regional Development which is hearing evidence about the crisis.
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