The then Lagan Valley MLA, who is now assembly speaker, was accused at the time of “avoiding democratic scrutiny” by putting ...

Edwin Poots told them it was "extremely discourteous" not to be in the chamber to ask a listed question. And in a letter to all 90 assembly members he said some were "undermining the concept of debate ...

Only 49 prosecutions were brought by Northern Ireland’s authorities over slurry spill and other farming-related water ...

Stormont MLAs have been reminded to “dress smartly” in the chamber. Speaker Edwin Poots said some Members of the Assembly have “a very loose interpretation of smart”. Issuing a reminder about protocol ...

Stormont’s Speaker has backed his deputy Carál Ní Chuilín after the TUV urged him to review a decision by the Sinn Fein MLA ...

Stormont Speaker Edwin Poots has once again given MLAs a dressing down — this time over Assembly etiquette. It comes after ...

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.

A Northern Ireland council has rewritten its planning rules in the wake of former member Luke Poots being banned from being a ...

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 ...