Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern says one problem with the Good Friday Agreement is that the power-sharing government in the North is a collective, without any real democratic opposition.
Efforts are ongoing behind the scenes to resolve a row at Stormont, which has seen the First Minister Peter Robinson stand aside, and all DUP ministers but one resign last week.
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The coalition is on the verge of collapse in the crisis, which centres on the status of the IRA.
Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern – who was involved in brokering the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 – says there needs to be a change to the structure of government at Stormont, but now is not the time for that.
