1. Northern Ireland Assembly has 9 statutory committees, each of which is charged with scrutinising the activities of a single ministerial department.
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6. The second election to the Northern Ireland Assembly was delayed by the UK government until 26 November 2003.
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8. Northern Ireland Assembly has both legislative powers and responsibility for electing the Northern Ireland Executive.
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10. In turn, the Northern Ireland Assembly selects most of the ministers of the Northern Ireland Executive using the principle of power-sharing under the D'Hondt method to ensure that Northern Ireland's largest voting blocs, unionists and Irish nationalists, both participate in governing the region.
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12. The Northern Ireland Assembly is currently in a period of suspension, after it collapsed in January 2017 due to policy disagreements within the leadership and the resignation of the late Martin McGuinness.
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