Ulster Unionist Philip Smith introduces his party's motion on "public confidence after Nama revelations".

In light of a word of caution from the speaker, Robin Newton, he says his party is "very aware of the live National Crime Agency investigation" but this should not prevent all debate on the Nama property sale.

Mr Smith refers to the report issued by the assembly's Committee for Finance and Personnel in March.

That report, he says, found that concerns about aspects of the Nama sale "could be seen as causing reputational damage to the [Department of Finance] and the Northern Ireland Executive".

He adds that investors need assurance that Northern Ireland is a "clean place to do business", and his motion calls on the first and deputy first ministers to make a statement to boost confidence in the political institutions.

Colin McGrath of the SDLP is bringing a petition on a "campaign against the harsh introduction of equal state pension requirements".

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He explains that this results from a Westminster decision to equalise male and female pension ages.

"Some women who are born some three years apart have to retire six years apart," he says.

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The National Asset Management Agency (Nama), a state-owned so-called 'bad bank', was set up in the Republic of Ireland to take control of property loans made by the country's banks before the financial crash in 2008.

It sold all of its Northern Ireland property loans to Cerberus, a US investment fund, in April 2014.

Independent member of the Irish Parliament Mick Wallace first made claims about fixers' fees connected to the deal in the parliament in July 2015.

His allegations prompted the Northern Ireland Assembly and the Irish parliament to begin investigations into the deal.

During the assembly's inquiry, it was claimed that then first minister Peter Robinson was to benefit as a result of the deal.

But he dismissed that allegation from loyalist blogger Jamie Bryson as "groundless" and made "without a shred of evidence".

The National Crime Agency, the UK's equivalent of the FBI, is carrying out a criminal investigation into the sale.

Last month, the Irish spending watchdog reported that the sales process had "irregularities" and "shortcomings".

It's been the biggest story in Northern Ireland politics for more than a year now - the controversy surrounding the region's biggest ever property deal.

And the revelations just keep coming, most recently with the BBC's Spotlight programme broadcasting a recording, external of a meeting in which one-time Nama advisor Frank Cushnahan was handed a bag containing £40,000 in cash by a Nama client.

Mr Cushnahan has denied any wrongdoing over the deal.

That latest claim has prompted the Ulster Unionists to bring a motion to the assembly this morning, saying "damage [has been] done" to Northern Ireland's international reputation as a result of the deal.

The party is calling on the first and deputy first ministers to make a statement to "restore the public confidence" in the assembly institutions, and for the Finance Committee to restart its inquiry into the deal.

Welcome along to our Stormont Live coverage on this damp and grey Monday morning on the hill...

Something a bit different today in the Northern Ireland Assembly - it's the first ever Opposition Day.

That means the agenda will mostly be made up of business brought by the opposition parties, the Ulster Unionists and the SDLP... and things could get interesting in the first debate of the day.