Taoiseach Micheal Martin has said that the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is wrong to place conditions on the return to power-sharing in Northern Ireland.
The unionist party, led by Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, has insisted that it will not form an Executive until issues with the Northern Ireland Protocol are resolved.
Mr Martin said that the Northern Ireland Protocol, a post-Brexit arrangement to avoid checks on the island of Ireland, was not the dominant issue in the Assembly election.
