THE wife of the late DUP leader Ian Paisley has said Stormont politicians are "failing" the people as she re-iterated calls for the restoration of the assembly institutions.
Eileen Paisley said it was "abominable" that MLAs were continuing to draw a salary since the collapse of power-sharing in January 2017, while others are "living on the breadline".
"I know they say they're having meetings, but they're not doing what they're paid to do," she told the BBC's Sunday Sequence programme.
"They (should) get out and see that people are crying out for help. They are failing them the longer they keep out and don't face up to the things that they have to face up to," Baroness Paisley continued.
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The wife of the ex-first minister also warned the longer the Stormont stalemate continues, things will only get worse.
"I would say to them cut out all the petty nonsense and dwell on the things that really matter and think of the people, not what they are or who they are, but what they need," she said.
In the same interview, Baroness Paisley said she would continue to live in the north in the event of a united Ireland as long as there was "freedom of worship and choice in life".
"It would take a lot to move me out so I like to think I would stay living here," she said.
Mrs Paisley also touched upon the election of the DUP's first openly candidate candidate Alison Bennington. Ms Bennington was elected to Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council earlier this month.
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The late Ian Paisley's brother-in-law, Rev James Beggs previously described the decision to select the candidate as "contrary to the word of God", while the Free Presbyterian Church, founded by Dr Paisley also issued a statement in opposition to the selection.
"I don't hate Ms Bennington," Baroness Paisley said in the interview.
"I don't know the girl, to start with. I don't hate anybody. But we have to go by what the Bible says.
We have to love Christ first and what he says, we have to obey his word," she added.
