‘No regrets’ about not stepping down over green energy debacle, Foster says
Arlene Foster says she has no regrets over not temporarily stepping down as first minister to avoid the collapse of powersharing.
Arlene Foster says she has no regrets over not temporarily stepping down as first minister to avoid the collapse of powersharing.
An independent inquiry into a botched green energy scheme which sparked a major political row in Northern Ireland will hear final submissions next week.
The RHI inquiry has heard there was a "great drive to centralise power" within the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in its appointment of special advisers within the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Arlene Foster has said she did not sign a blank cheque for the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme.
A former special adviser to DUP leader Arlene Foster has said he “should have dug deeper” into the details of the ill-fated renewable heat incentive (RHI) scheme.
The chairman of a public inquiry into Stormont's botched green energy scheme has questioned whether a key department run by DUP leader Arlene Foster was dysfunctional.
Democratic Unionist leader Arlene Foster has defended her role in Stormont’s botched green energy scheme as she appeared before a public inquiry.
The Stormont Assembly has been plunged into crisis after all non-Democratic Unionist members walked out ahead of a disputed statement by the First Minister on her role in a botched renewable energy scheme.
Senior Democratic Unionist Jonathan Bell has been suspended from the party.