Is the Northern Ireland Assembly Suspended?

Since 1997, when Tony Blair did come into power, some powers have been devolved from the central government to give people in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland more control over matters that directly affect them. There has been a Welsh Assembly and a Scottish Parliament since 1999. There is also a Northern Irish Assembly, Northern Ireland Assembly, although this has been suspended on a few occasions. We don't know exactly why it was suspended, and also how it was suspended either. So it might well be possible that the Northern Irish government essentially suspended itself by probably like one of the parties refusing to sit in the Assembly,. That's normally the way that that happens, because they just refuse to speak to each other