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What big issues are on the agenda as Stormont returns after summer?
Ministers and MLAs are to return to Stormont on Monday
It's not even the start of a new Stormont term and already there have been leaks.
Albeit it wasn't some big scoop but a rather damp surprise for the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) MLA Colin McGrath, who took to social media saying a water leak over summer had left his assembly office looking worse for wear, external.
Even the most casual observers of politics here could guess, however, that Stormont's leaky roof problems are outweighed by the ever-slow drip of political activity inside the building - a place the assembly's freshest face will witness for himself from this week.
On Tuesday, Paul Boggs was named Sinn Féin's new West Tyrone MLA after Maoliosa McHugh - who'd already said he wouldn't run in the next election - decided to call it quits.
Boggs brings the number of MLAs who have been co-opted since the last assembly election to 14 and that figure could go up still before the upcoming election next May.
Co-options aside (that's a whole other piece), the backdrop of said looming election means parties are likely to be in fighting form when Stormont sittings resume on Monday.
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The newly-appointed Health Minister Robbie Butler will be one of those quick to feel pressure, as the 10-year anniversary of the Bengoa report - a major health reform review - approaches next month.