Sinn Féin's Chief Negotiator Martin McGuinness has said his party will not give its consent to what he called 'unionist-dominated scrutinising committees' in a shadow assembly.
He was speaking in London where he accompanied the Sinn Féin President, Gerry Adams, and the party's justice spokesman, Gerry Kelly, to Downing Street for an hour of talks with the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair.
Mr McGuinness indicated afterwards that Sinn Féin would reserve its position on going into an Assembly until the party had heard what the Taoiseach and the British Prime Minister had to say in Armagh on Thursday.
The two leaders are due to announce new proposals to revive the power-sharing executive.
At the weekend, the DUP leader Ian Paisley said it was nonsense to predict that the Northern Ireland Executive would be formed by the end of November.
