Civil servants using ministerial cars, ongoing costs of MLA salaries and that Stormont canteen - do we need to say enough is enough?

Parliament Buildings sits silent on the hill. The business of government limps on in the buildings surrounding it on the Stormont estate. But with pressures on health, education, infrastructure and all the other budgets, is it time to look at the cash being spent on Stormont itself. Yesterday it was announced that 150 people are being temporarily redeployed - frankly to find them something to do now that devolution has effectively disappeared. But the canteen continues to be subsidised... MLAs are still being paid. And this morning it's been revealed that civil servants are using chaffeur-driven ministerial cars - sometimes just to get them from one building to another. In other cases for trips in top-of-the range cars to Derry and Dublin. With all of the concerns about cash is it time to take action? Is it time to simply mothball Stormont and stop the spending in the absence of a deal? Is the façade of government - without actual powersharing - really worth hundreds of thousands - if not millions of pounds? Chris got the views of Bumper Graham from the trade union NIPSA and Colin McGrath from the SDLP.