It is time for Stormont to move beyond the "polarised politics of the past", the leader of the Green Party has said.
Launching the party's manifesto for the Assembly election in May, Clare Bailey called for an end to "manufactured crises" in Northern Ireland's power-sharing institutions.
The South Belfast representative argued the Greens offer the "main alternative to the broken five-party Executive system".
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Raising the minimum wage, rent controls and a basic income payment scheme for all young people leaving care are among the policies the party is proposing.
Others include increasing transparency around political donations, establishing an independent environmental protection agency and banning the hunting of wild animals with dogs.
Speaking at a launch event at Belfast Barge moored along the River Lagan, Ms Bailey said their manifesto outlines a "Green vision for a new approach to politics".
She said: "The Executive parties have shown time and time again that they cannot deliver the solutions needed while people continue to suffer the consequences."
Ms Bailey said the election campaign has seen "traditional parties continue to try and shape the debate along the usual lines of division and mistrust".
"But as they try to drag the debate into the past, the electorate are moving forward," she added.
"People see how the housing crisis, the cost of living crisis, the waiting list crisis, the mental health crisis are all so badly affecting their lives, and of course the urgency of the climate crisis becoming more and more obvious, with people so much more astute to the urgency and the need to adapt and mitigate to the looming impacts facing us.
"And this will require system change, because the system that has created the problems is not the system that can solve the problems. And this is where our politics needs to be focused.
"These are the issues that the Green Party is committed to delivering on."
The Green Party, which is running 18 candidates across Northern Ireland, secured two MLA seats in the last Assembly election in 2017.
Ms Bailey said Greens have "punched well above our weight at the Assembly", introducing three pieces of legislation tackling issues including climate change.
She said it was time to "move forward from the polarised politics of the past", to put an end to "manufactured crises" at Stormont and "move beyond traditional politics of division".
Concluding her address, she added: "The people of Northern Ireland need politics and politicians who are willing to do the job that they were elected to do.
"No more deadlock, no more stalemate, and no more collapse.
"It's time for a new approach. It's time to make Stormont work, and we say it's time to vote Green number one."
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