Stormont committee investigating Nama deal urges Finance Minister to step aside

A Stormont scrutiny committee has called on the North's Finance Minister to stand aside pending the outcome of a probe into a party colleague's backchannel contact with an inquiry witness.

Máirtín Ó Muilleoir has so far resisted pressure to temporarily step down in the wake of the controversy that forced the resignation of Daithí McKay, a former Sinn Féin chairman of the Assembly's Finance Committee.