A bid to elect a new speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly has failed and the session has been suspended.
Nominations to elect Mike Nesbitt of the Ulster Unionist Party or Patsy McGlone of the SDLP to the role failed to get the support of the DUP.
Acting Speaker Alan Chambers said that because of the failure to elect a Speaker, no further business could take place and the session was suspended.
Commenting on the failure to elect a speaker, Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris said: "It is disappointing that the Assembly was unable to elect a speaker and restore the Northern Ireland Executive today.
"The return of a locally elected, accountable and effective devolved government is the best way to govern Northern Ireland.
"However, in the absence of an Executive, the [British] government will proceed with a pragmatic and reasonable approach to support Northern Ireland."
Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill has accused the DUP leader of "jeopardising public services".
Speaking during the recall earlier, she said that much-needed money for public sector workers "hangs in the balance" and that those workers "cannot be punished for DUP failures".
The DUP is continuing to refuse to return in protest over the Windsor Framework and post-Brexit trading arrangements for Northern Ireland.
A £3.3 billion deal to restore the Executive is on offer, including money that could begin to address the public sector pay claim.
Ms O'Neill said the DUP's argument that their approach continues to relate to the Windsor Framework has "lost all credibility" and that the "only remaining explanation for the DUP boycott is the refusal to accept a nationalist first minister".
She said there was a "dangerous attempt under way to discard the democratic outcome of the Assembly election".
Ms O'Neill said if Jeffrey Donaldson did not change his approach, today could be the last sitting of this assembly.
She said that if the institutions were not restored, there is an obligation on the British and Irish governments to look at Plan B, a " British-Irish partnership that provides joint stewardship and an intensified role for the Irish Government in the affairs of this state and our administration".
Gordon Lyons, the DUP's finance spokesperson, described the recall as a "stunt", which was "orchestrated to coincide" with tomorrow's general strike of public sector workers.
He said that Sinn Féin knows there will be no speaker elected, and that the matter of public pay cannot be quickly resolved.
Mr Lyons said that workers deserve pay rises and he reiterated calls for the money to be released for this today.
He said the DUP fully supports workers in their campaign.
"Everyone knows the sitting of the Assembly will achieve nothing because the conditions for the restoration of devolution have not been secured.
"The parties supporting this recall consistently have chosen grandstanding and stunts rather than serious effort to secure that sort of progress," he said.
Cross-community voting rules mean that a speaker cannot be elected without the backing of the DUP.
Sinn Féin's recall comes ahead of the legal deadline for a fresh assembly election to be called, if devolution has not been restored by 12am.
Legislation to extend the deadline has been used before and it is expected to be pushed out once again.
It also takes place before the de-facto general strike of public sector workers that looks likely to bring Northern Ireland to a standstill tomorrow.
Earlier this week, last-minute talks aimed at restoring the Stormont Executive were unsuccessful.
Mr Heaton-Harris said he had outlined a "generous" £3.3 billion deal that would be available from "day one of a re-formed Executive".
The DUP said while significant progress was made in its discussions over the Windsor Framework and that those discussions will continue.
Mr Heaton-Harris, however, said that those discussions with the DUP had "effectively concluded" and he urged parties to form an Executive.
The deal on offer includes around £600m to begin addressing the public sector pay claim, however, workers have been told this money cannot be released unless there is a return of Stormont.
Political parties called for Mr Heaton-Harris and the Treasury to release the funds and decouple the issue of workers' pay from the wider political picture.
Mr Heaton-Harris said that the issue of public sector pay was devolved.
Ahead of the strike, a teachers union has said workers have been "pawns in this political impasse for long enough".
INTO Northern Secretary Mark McTaggart called on Mr Heaton-Harris to "stop this political House of Cards charade" and that a public sector pay solution cannot be dependent on the action or inaction of any political party.
"The Secretary of State has made it clear that funds are available to bring about a fair pay settlement for our members and yet he and the DUP appear content to play a game of tug of war with it while workers struggle to make ends meet", he said.
Mr Heaton-Harris said he would have "various decisions to make" if power-sharing was not restored by Friday and that he would set out the next steps in "due course".
He has extended the legislation requiring an election to be called before, and it is expected he will do so again.
