The Alliance Party has insisted newly elected MLA Sorcha Eastwood is committed to the Stormont Assembly after she declared being on a "career break".
Ms Eastwood said in her Stormont register of interests she is on a "12-month career break" until May 2023 from her job as a parliamentary adviser to Alliance MP Stephen Farry.
The Lagan Valley MLA, a former councillor in Lisburn and Castlereagh, had worked for the party's deputy leader earning £31,000 a year until her election to the Assembly in May.
