Stalled Assembly costs almost €3m a month

The Northern Ireland Assembly is costing £1.93m (€2.74m) a month to run - despite devolved government being suspended, Northern Ireland Secretary Paul Murphy disclosed tonight.

He told Ulster Unionist David Burnside in a that salaries of Assembly Members, office cost allowances, travel and subsistence expenses and party allowances totalled £830,000 (€1.18m).