We are wrapping up our live page coverage on the latest recall of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

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There has been no election again of an assembly speaker, which means no restoration of the power-sharing institutions.

Attention will now switch to Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris who is under a legal duty to call an early assembly election if no executive is formed by Thursday.

But he has already pushed this deadline back several times before.

We'll keep you up to date with the latest twists and turns - or lack thereof - at Stormont on the BBC News NI website.

Enda McClafferty
BBC News NI political editor

Even before MLAs took their seats in the chamber there was a sense devolution was doomed.

The word around the Stormont corridors suggested this could be the last assembly sitting for some time.

It felt like the moment to restore the executive has now passed.

That same sense was evident at Hillsborough Castle on Monday when the secretary of state told the parties there was no evidence the DUP was preparing to end its boycott.

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Though, at Westminster this morning, Chris Heaton-Harris said he hoped the DUP could come to a conclusion in the “days and weeks” ahead.

He hasn’t totally given up hope but most of the Stormont parties outside the DUP have.

Jayne McCormack
BBC News NI political correspondent

Releasing money to resolve public sector pay disputes is as close as it gets to direct rule and the government will not do that, the Northern Ireland secretary insisted earlier.

Chris Heaton-Harris has repeatedly said the matter remained a choice for a devolved executive.

"Every penny spent on pay is a penny not spent on services, the choices around this are eminently political, as close as you'd come to choices made in the period during direct rule," he told MPs.

He insisted direct rule was "not the way forward" and insisted Stormont should be restored.

Direct rule would see Northern Ireland ruled from Westminster with ministers there taking decisions.

The last period of direct rule in Northern Ireland ended in 2007, and reinstating it would be a controversial move.

Brendan Hughes
BBC News NI political reporter

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris says it is disappointing that no assembly speaker has been elected.

"The return of a locally elected, accountable and effective devolved government is the best way to govern Northern Ireland," he says, in a statement.

“However, in the absence of an executive, the government will proceed with a pragmatic and reasonable approach to support Northern Ireland.”

Gerry Carroll, of People Before Profit, is first out of the blocks with reaction in the Great Hall, following the adjournment of the assembly.

He says he wants to ensure any administration, whether at Westminster or Stormont, does not inflict "pain or punishment" on working class people.

He recognises that there would be some inconvenience for people with the strike, but his message to those striking on Thursday is to "stay strong".

"Everybody who is striking tomorrow is the public, and we cannot forget the long term disruption by people who cannot get a hospital appointment, people who have been denied a proper pay rise for the best part of a decade, so that is long term disruption," he adds.

The SDLP's Patsy McGlone fails to be elected as speaker, with no majority support from either nationalists or unionists

Here's how members voted:

- 76 MLAs voted, with 50 in favour (65.8%)

- Nationalists: 32 voted, 32 aye (100%)

- Unionists: 26 unionists voted, 0 aye (0%)

- Other: 18 voted, 18 aye (100%)

It means there has been no restoration of power-sharing institutions.

Yet again there has been no election of a Stormont speaker.

In its seventh recall since May 2022's assembly election, there was no cross-community majority meaning assembly business cannot continue.

Patsy McGlone of the SDLP and the UUP's Mike Nesbitt were nominated for the role.

Alan Chambers, who presided over today's sitting, said "we can proceed no further" after the results were announced.

The sitting was adjourned "until a future date", he adds.

Gerry Carroll adds that Chris Heaton-Harris is trying to use public sector pay as "a bargaining chip to restore Stormont".

He says the DUP could also end its boycott and "start addressing workers' demands".

"Both are to blame," he adds.

People Before Profit leader Gerry Carrol begins by expressing solidarity with striking workers.

"It's not lost on anyone that those keeping our society functioning have been forced to go on picket lines while the DUP refuse to do a day's work," he says.

Mr Carroll says he is not here to make an appeal to the DUP "because we've been down that road before".

"We know their real and divisive motives and we know that their self-serving boycott has mainly been about staving off electoral losses," he adds.

Brendan Hughes
BBC News NI political reporter

TUV leader Jim Allister also argues that there was "hypocrisy" in the recall of the assembly.

He says public sector pay should be separated from other issues.

But he argues the recall motion added to a "bandwagon of blackmail" from Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris.

On calls to restore power sharing, he adds: "The demand to get this going is to break unionism."

Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) leader Jim Allister pays tribute to David Hilditch and his 25 years of “unstinting service” to the people of East Antrim.

Mr Allister says the assembly recall “reeks of insincerity”.

He says there is an avoidance of asking questions as to why the Stormont institutions had failed.

“It is a bit like the tantrum child whose favourite toy stops working and his father says: 'Will we try and fix it?' And [they respond] 'no, no, just make it move'.”

Matthew O'Toole says the concepts of public trust and public service have been "abused and damaged beyond recognition in this place - and possibly beyond repair".

"Tomorrow, true public servants will forgo a day's pay they can ill-afford to stand in freezing temperatures," he says.

He adds that the SDLP stands with striking public sector workers.

"Unlike some in this chamber and elsewhere, they take seriously the trust placed in them and the service they perform."

Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) assembly member Matthew O'Toole is next on his feet.

He urges the DUP to end its Stormont boycott.

"This chamber and these institutions only matter to the extent that they serve the public," he says.

"They aren't serving anyone at minute."

The UUP's Robbie Butler says that, in his opinion, the Stormont restoration “blockage” lies with a small number of DUP MPs and Lords who are “far removed from the impact on public services and lives here”.

He contrasts this with the potential pay rise for MPs later this year.

He says some of the people taking strike action on Thursday will have to visit food banks.

Mr Butler asks the DUP to consider the “abiding impact” of the strike action.

Ulster Unionist Robbie Butler also pays tribute to former DUP MLA David Hilditch.

Mr Butler adds that in 2002, he was balloted for strike action as a firefighter.

He says he was affected by the loss of pay and the impact on his pension contributions.

“Strike action is not taken lightly,” he adds.

Naomi Long calls on the DUP to "listen to the overwhelming majority of people in Northern Ireland".

"Sir Jeffrey has said that the time for decisions in approaching," she adds.

"I say, with the greatest respect, it arrived some time ago."

Alliance leader Naomi Long is next to speak.

She says her party's frustration with the Stormont stalemate is "profound".

"Our frustration is nothing when compared to the frustration, or perhaps more accurately anger and despair that so many of our constituents feel," she says.

Ms Long says she wants the assembly reformed "so no single party can ever again hold them to ransom".

Gordon Lyons describes the financial offer by the UK government for the restoration of Stormont as potentially "hampering" public services in the future.

He says the DUP is "fighting" for more money which could enable pay uplifts for future years and not just 2023-24.

Mr Lyons adds public sector workers deserve pay rises and calls for the Northern Ireland secretary to release money for this "today", regardless of the outcome of the recall or the talks.

Gordon Lyons, of the DUP, begins by paying tribute to David Hilditch, a long-serving MLA who died in November.

He says the East Antrim representative, who stood down on health grounds, will be missed by all who knew him.

On the Stormont recall, Mr Lyons says it is a "stunt" which was "cynically" orchestrated to come before Thursday's mass strike action.

He adds Sinn Féin knows there will be no speaker elected today, nor could the matter of public pay be quickly resolved.

Jayne McCormack
BBC News NI political correspondent

Michelle O'Neill adds that she fears the democratic institutions of the Good Friday Agreement are "in freefall".

"There is a dangerous attempt underway to discard the democratic outcome of the assembly election, and this threatens our democratic governance, public administration, reconciliation, and the fabric of this society," she says.

Without a new speaker, the assembly cannot function.

"The public looking on here today are not seeing the change they voted for," adds Ms O'Neill.