Stormont is back all of a sudden almost when no one was looking. The Assembly's 90 MLAs now find themselves at the very centre of the political debate here and for some of them that is likely to be a very steep learning curve. For this red lines, we've come to the old Senate chamber in Parliament buildings, and we're going to discuss the challenges

involved in getting things up and running again. And my guests today are Gareth Gordon,

our political correspondent, Nick Matheson, the Alliance Chair of the Education Committee,

Deborah Erskine, DEP Chair of the Infrastructure Committee, Tom Elliott, Ulster Unionist Party, of course,

former leader of the party who, from today, chairs the DERA Committee.

Daniel McCrossin from the SDLP, who's chairing the all-important PAC, the Public Accounts

Committee.

And hopefully we're going to be joined by Emma Sheeran from

Sinn Féin in a moment or two. So welcome to all of you. It's lovely to see you all.

Gareth, I said there in the introduction, it did happen very suddenly at the end. We've

been talking about this endlessly for two years. And when it happened, it still managed to almost catch people by surprise, I think.

Yeah, you can leave me the DUP for that.

I think, yeah, I mean, I don't think there's any,

there's been talk of laps of honour,

and I think anybody's coming back, punching there and triumph.

It's almost as if the assembly has crept in

the, like somebody creeping in in the middle of the night, home a bit too late. I think it's

aware that standing in the public eye isn't the highest, and I think it's got down to business.

Now, I have to say yesterday was a very entertaining day for a number of reasons, which you may want to expand the point.

I think we're keen to get your take on it because you always have a quirky perspective on things.

And there was plenty of material, wasn't it?

Today is as boring as yesterday was interesting.

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