I do not agree with Jan Morris that there is a Crisis in the Assembly.

Our modus operandi never caused a Crisis in the Assembly.

Apart from the costs involved, the stalemate that has arisen from the failure to agree the welfare reform proposals that we thought had been agreed this time last year in the Stormont House agreement has led to a budgetary Crisis in the Assembly.

They used the powers that were available to block the legislation, created a constitutional and financial Crisis in the Assembly, and hurt the many hundreds of thousands of people who found that for the last year the budget of the Assembly had been in disarray.