The Stormont stalemate is topping the agenda at the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference today. Follow our live page:
Chris Heaton-Harris has set a deadline of the end of June for civil servants to provide options for raising more public money.
That could mean introducing water charges and tuition fees and taking away services like the free bus pass for the over-60s.In a letter to permanent secretaries, he said that he was"keen to explore super parity measures including water charges, prescription charges and tuition fees".But the SDLP said it was aand was “nothing more than a blunt attempt to make working families pay the price of the DUP’s boycott.
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