"What happened last week fell way short of standards, " Mr Poots told the Northern Ireland Assembly.
There was also criticism from a Sinn Fein member of the Northern Ireland Assembly, Alex Maskey.
We can count the Speakers of the Scottish Parliament and the Northern Ireland Assembly among our colleagues.
There has been a score of killings, gun-running, punishment shootings and espionage in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Ian Paisley, once mortal enemies and now colleagues in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
But on Tuesday he said the Northern Ireland Assembly was bound come to tumbling down if the motion fails.
Peter Robinson was speaking in the Northern Ireland Assembly as a debate on his first budget got under way.
The Northern Ireland Assembly has been suspended since October 2002, amid allegations of an IRA spy ring at Stormont.
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The opening of a Marie Stopes clinic led to demonstrations and scrutiny by a committee in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
In the Northern Ireland Assembly two committees have been told that contaminated meat points to fraudulent activity and to Europe.
The amendment to the criminal justice bill will be debated and voted on in the Northern Ireland Assembly next Tuesday.
Paul Frew, the chair of the Northern Ireland Assembly's agriculture committee, said he was shocked that the horsemeat had been found.
In common with the Northern Ireland Assembly, Belfast City Council uses the D'Hondt system to decide how posts are divided out.
The Northern Ireland Assembly Finance Committee, however, has suggested extending the scheme.
Mr Bradley said the Northern Ireland Assembly, Northern Ireland Local Government Association (NILGA) and the majority of councils were supporting new legislation.
But not before the matter was discussed in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
The leader of the nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party, John Hume, has confirmed he is to resign from the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Among other things it would end the "dual mandate" which allows some politicians to serve both on the Northern Ireland Assembly and as MPs.
The document was published after the prime minister postponed elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly which were due to take place on 29 May.
But at least there is now a new focus and the two most difficult subjects have been tackled, the Northern Ireland assembly and cross-border arrangements.
He officially leaves office on Friday and was due to appear before the Northern Ireland Assembly Committee for Regional Development which is hearing evidence about the crisis.
Ms Kennedy, who assumed the education portfolio when the Northern Ireland Assembly collapsed, had said she intended to follow the course of action set out by Mr McGuinness.
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The Bill, which has cross-party support, allows the Northern Ireland Assembly to delegate powers to set the salaries and allowances of its 108 members to an outside body.
The finance and enterprise committees brought a joint motion on supporting in principle the devolution of corporation tax powers to the Northern Ireland Assembly, on 28 June 2011.
Four people, including Denis Donaldson, head of Sinn Fein's administration at the Northern Ireland Assembly, were charged last month after police seized documents in raids on republican homes.
On 5 May 2011, the same day as elections to the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Assembly, the Northern Ireland Assembly and local elections in many parts of England.
He said the flag at the Northern Ireland Assembly building should be flown at half-mast on the day of her funeral and books of condolence opened "across Northern Ireland".
He was succeeded by the current Lord Mayor David Alderdice, the brother of the former Alliance Party leader and current presiding officer of the Northern Ireland Assembly, Lord Alderdice.
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Ian Paisley Jnr, a DUP member of the Northern Ireland Assembly and the Policing Board, said the shooting could prove to be a defining moment in Northern Ireland's history.
If Mr Trimble wins the support of his party council, he will still need the support of party members in the Northern Ireland assembly if his government is to work.
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