Member

The key point is that the powers to which the Northern Ireland department will retain access due to these regulations include a spending power and a direction-making power. It will be able to use these powers to deliver a renewables obligation to Exchequer policy analogous to that recently implemented in GB. Once these regulations are in place, I know that colleagues in the Executive will work to put in place that analogous policy as quickly as they can. It is right for them to do so in this transferred policy area, and for the Northern Ireland Assembly to hold them to account.