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First Minister Michelle O'Neill and Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly
The Stormont Executive has agreed a long-awaited programme for government, BBC News NI understands.
A virtual gathering of ministers lasted astir 40 minutes connected Thursday morning, a time aft plans to hold the papers were pulled astatine the past minute.
The archetypal and lawman archetypal ministers are expected to bash a property league aboriginal connected Thursday.
The papers volition person to beryllium delivered to the assembly archetypal connected Monday earlier it tin beryllium published to the wider public.
It is understood the papers contains a fig of targets alongside the executive's 9 main priorities.
Taoiseach sojourn cancelled
Meanwhile a sojourn by the taoiseach Micheál Martin to Belfast contiguous has been postponed.
He was owed to sojourn Stormont for the archetypal clip since being re-elected taoiseach past month.
The Irish authorities said that the gathering has been pulled owed to a docket change.
When was the past programme for authorities agreed?
It has been immoderate clip since a Stormont enforcement agreed a finalised programme for government.
The past clip an enforcement managed to get 1 implicit the enactment was during the assembly's 4th word betwixt 2011 and 2015.
One was besides agreed successful 2016 and went retired to nationalist consultation.
But earlier it could beryllium passed, the power-sharing institutions collapsed pursuing the resignation of past Sinn Féin Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness.
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