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I will not resign over ash for cash heating scheme, says Arlene Foster

Stormont First Minister Arlene Foster has said she will not resign over a failed renewable heating scheme in Northern Ireland.

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Northern Ireland

Arlene Foster could face watchdog grilling next week over botched RHI scheme

Arlene Foster is prepared to face the Assembly's spending watchdog over the cash for ash scheme - if invited.

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Northern Ireland

DUP's Hamilton apologises to botched energy scheme whistleblower

Economy Minister Simon Hamilton has apologised to a whistleblower who claimed she warned Arlene Foster about a botched heating scheme that may now cost the taxpayer more than £400m.

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Sunday Life

Brother of Arlene Foster's advisor benefits from botched energy scheme

A DUP special advisor is facing calls to quit after the party revealed to Sunday Life that his farmer brother is benefiting from the disastrous Renewable Heat Initiative (RHI) which is set to cost local taxpayers £400m.

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Gallery

Northern Ireland

'I have nothing to hide' - DUP's Arlene Foster pledges '100% inspections' of botched heating scheme claims

Arlene Foster has pledged "100% inspections" of those claiming from the botched Renewable Heating Incentive to ensure they operated within "the spirit of the scheme" saying she has nothing to hide over her role in the development of the project.

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Northern Ireland

MLAs to consider calling Foster to exceptional hearing over renewables scheme

A Stormont committee is to convene a special meeting to consider whether to call the first minister to give evidence on her role in a botched renewable energy scheme.

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Northern Ireland

Public money could heat Northern Ireland Ferrari showroom for next 20 years

The Renewable Heating Incentive - the flawed government grants system that wasted millions in public cash - was used to heat a Ferrari showroom.

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Northern Ireland

Farmer 'gets £1m of public cash to heat empty shed' - 'catastrophic’ blunder threatening to drain hundreds of millions from Northern Ireland’s block grant

Northern Ireland's block grant could be hit for hundreds of millions of pounds over the next 20 years because of Stormont's failure to control a renewable energy scheme, it has been revealed.

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Northern Ireland

Arlene Foster: 'It is a matter of deep regret that goals of this scheme were not achieved - there can never be a repeat of this failure'

The establishment of a renewable heat scheme was the right thing to do. Supporters of renewable energy and others were telling me at that time it did not go far enough.

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Northern Ireland

Arlene Foster says botched energy scheme was 'shocking failure and I have duty to deal with it'

Arlene Foster has come out fighting after pressure to quit as First Minister over her role in the growing controversy over a botched £400m 'green scheme'.

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Gallery

Northern Ireland

Pressure mounts on Arlene Foster to quit over energy scheme fiasco as advisor denies he met whistleblower

First Minister Arlene Foster is facing fresh calls to resign following new revelations over a bungled heating scheme set to cost Northern Ireland upwards of £400m.

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Politics

Everyone knew energy scheme 'too good to be true' so why didn't officials? asks whistleblower

One of the whistleblowers at the centre of the botched £400m renewable heating scheme has said it was obvious to her and many others that the programme was "too good to be true" and asked how government officials could not see it.

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Northern Ireland

Nesbitt urges Foster to consider position over botched renewable energy scheme

First Minister Arlene Foster has been urged to consider her position following more revelations over Northern Ireland's expensively botched renewable energy scheme.

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Business News

Free-for-all as 99% of applicants to botched £270m heating scheme approved

Nearly every application to Northern Ireland's expensively botched renewable energy scheme - described as "one of the biggest political scandals since devolution - was given the green light.

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Northern Ireland

Prosecutions warning over 'shocking' abuse of Renewable Heat Incentive

Criminal prosecutions should be brought against anyone who abused a green energy scheme set to cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of pounds, the Economy Minister has warned.

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Viewpoint

A sorry tale of fraud and incompetence

Northern Ireland's reputation as a place that enjoys a huge benefits culture, largely thanks to its disproportionate level of DLA claims, suffers another blow in a damning Audit Office report which revealed that fraudsters cheated the public purse out of a staggering £45m last year.

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Northern Ireland

Renewable energy scheme collapse blamed on Stormont failure to review tariffs

Stormont's failure to regularly review tariffs paid under a botched renewable energy scheme was the main reason for its budget-busting demise, an economist has told MLAs.