The short-lived power-sharing executive was suspended in February during the dispute over IRA decommissioning.
They said the assembly should concentrate purely on the formation of a power-sharing executive.
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Democratic Unionist Party minister Nigel Dodds has called for Sinn Fein to be excluded from Northern Ireland's newly restored power-sharing executive.
Progress on the decommissioning issue will be crucial to the survival of the power-sharing executive set up at Stormont last week.
But Democratic Unionist Party minister Nigel Dodds called for Sinn Fein to be excluded from Northern Ireland's newly restored power-sharing executive.
Northern Ireland's power-sharing executive announced plans for a children's commissioner in 2001.
Mr Bruton claimed he was told in private briefings by the Irish government that the power-sharing executive would have been restored on Friday.
He decided last week that he would bring his party back into the Stormont power-sharing executive with Sinn Fein after the IRA move.
The new power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland is a coalition of organisations all from the same island but with vastly different cultural backgrounds.
That raid led to the suspension of the power-sharing executive after unionists declared they could no longer trust Sinn Fein and threatened to quit.
If there is no sign of decommissioning by the end of January, the party will be expected to resign as threatened from the Assembly's power-sharing executive.
Mr Mallon said Ulster Secretary Peter Mandelson had made a "faulty judgement" and a "hasty decision" when he suspended the 10-week old power-sharing Executive last month.
The collapse of the power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland in June 1974 after just three months saw MPs back in the Commons debating on the future of the province.
The early release scheme has been one of the most criticised aspects of the peace accord which paved the way for the establishment of a power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland.
Ulster Unionist First Minister David Trimble has pledged he will pull his party out of the recently formed power-sharing executive if the IRA has not begun to decommission by 31 January.
But the programme reveals that in the weeks leading up to and during the two-week strike - which brought the power sharing Executive down - Mr Wilson was working on his secret plan.
The formation of the Council follows the establishment of Northern Ireland's power-sharing executive in the Assembly after former US senator George Mitchell helped unionists and republicans to come to a deal on devolution and arms decommissioning.
He'll be remembered in the process as the secretary of state who was in office when devolution came into place, for his suspension of the devolved power-sharing executive in order to prevent its complete collapse, and for putting it back into place a few months later when a deal was brokered by the British and Irish Prime Ministers, with Mr Mandelson heavily involved.
The arms talks are a key requirement of the deal between unionists and republicans which allowed the formation of the power-sharing Assembly executive on Thursday.
But Mr Trimble will face a crunch meeting of his party's ruling council in January which could put pressure on him to quit the power-sharing Stormont executive if there is no movement on disarmament.
However, the agreement still requires the formal approval of the power-sharing Northern Ireland executive.
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