MLAs had been set to debate a motion on the cost-of-living crisis today if Stormont had been restored.
But the latest bid to re-establish the devolved institutions failed after the DUP continued to block the election of a Speaker in protest over Brexit's Northern Ireland Protocol.
Without cross-community support to elect a new Speaker, it meant no further business could be discussed. The recalled sitting of the Assembly, proposed by the SDLP, was the third attempt to restore power-sharing since elections in May.
