Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has met with the leaders of Northern Ireland in Stormont. Alongside his Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn, Sir Keir met First Minister Michelle O'Neill and deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly. Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00The recess was due to be at the closing.
00:02Yeah, we will have to, because we'll have the King's speech a week on Wednesday.
00:06That then has a five day general debate, which will take us through to about 23rd.
00:11We're due to go into recess on the 24th.
00:13I don't think it would be the new government sort of saying, we're going to hit the ground running,
00:17get all this change, and then by the way we're off to recess.
00:20So we'll extend it through to, I don't know whether I've told you this.
00:23I think I'm aware.
00:26But we'll then extend it to at least the end of July, and then back to the beginning of September.
00:31When are you in recess, is it?
00:33So we were in recess last week.
00:35Yeah, because you're a little bit earlier on.
00:37So we still have some key pieces of business with the proper government, for example.
00:41So we may have to do a recall for some of that type of...
00:45Oh, well if you need to, we'll recall it.
00:47If we need to, yes.
00:48Probably over July, but at 12 o'clock for all of them, 8 into August, acknowledging.
00:53And then you're back to mid-August, is it?
00:551st of September.
00:56Oh, 1st of September.
00:57I think, yeah.
00:58Do you think you will have to recall, or is it just as and when?
01:01Well, we have to work that out.
01:03We weren't able to publish the programme for government because of election rights.
01:07And debate on the initial programme, so that's generally the protocol.
01:12But we'll see how we progress with that.
01:15But like you said, we've got many big issues to fight back also.
01:18You do.
01:25Thank you.
01:56Cheers.
01:57Okay.