The limited decisions being made by Stormont caretaker ministers are "opaque" without a functioning Assembly, a report by a Northern Ireland think tank has said.
Pivotal warned the continuing absence of a power-sharing Executive "lacks transparency and accountability" and is "not healthy for any democratic state".
Stormont has been in limbo since February when the DUP withdrew its First Minister from the devolved government in protest over Brexit's Northern Ireland Protocol.
