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A post-mortem examination is to be carried out following the sudden | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
death of a man in his twenties in north Belfast. | :00:10. | :00:11. | |
His body was found in a house on the Antrim Road this morning. | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
A 37-year-old man arrested on suspicion of drugs offences has | :00:16. | :00:17. | |
been released on bail pending further police inquiries. | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
The Finance Minister has announced that a retired appeal court judge | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
will chair a public inquiry into the Renewable | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
Starting next Wednesday, the inquiry will have the power to compel | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
witnesses to appear and evidence to be produced. | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
Last night, the Assembly backed a plan to cut costs | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
Here is our political correspondent Stephen Walker. | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
This was the last sitting of the Assembly so it seemed | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
appropriate the RHI scheme was on the agenda. | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
Today, it was announced that Patrick Coghlin, | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
the retired Lord Justice of the court of | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
Appeal, will chair an enquiry into the scheme. | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
Openness and transparency will be key touchstones | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
Two key requirements that I pointed to earlier, the investigation | :01:04. | :01:15. | |
will have to compel witnesses and evidence. | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
No stone will be unturned, no dark corners for a light will be | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
The DUP has made it clear that we want an independent enquiry capable | :01:23. | :01:38. | |
of getting to the truth regarding -- she will be aware of that under the | :01:39. | :01:47. | |
enquiries act. The potential for a lengthy enquiry and I am somewhat | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
disappointed to hear there is no intention of an interim report. | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
Last night when the plan was presented by the economy minister | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
aiming to cut costs associated with the RHI | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
Today was the final sitting of the Assembly | :01:59. | :02:11. | |
and it seemed appropriate that the issue of the RHI boiler | :02:12. | :02:13. | |
The very subject that got us to this point in the | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
As MLAs take the lead, two questions spring to mind, who | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
will return and when will Stormont come back? | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
Two more MLAs have announced they won't be standing | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
The Ulster Unionist Alastair Ross and the DUP's Sammy Douglas | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
said they won't seek re-election in March. | :02:31. | :02:32. | |
Meanwhile, the Assembly has conducted its last business | :02:33. | :02:34. | |
in the main Chamber before the election on the 2nd March. | :02:35. | :02:36. | |
Tonight, a handful of members debated rural broadband provision. | :02:37. | :02:38. | |
The last MLA on his feet was Jim Wells of the DUP, | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
before Deputy Speaker Catriona Ruane - who's also leaving the Assembly - | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
The Economy Department was due tomorrow to reveal the names of | :02:45. | :02:54. | |
Today a judge temporarily banned publication of the details | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
But not all the scheme's participants are against being | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
named, as our agriculture and environment correspondent | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
Johnny Kelly runs the Fir Trees Hotel. | :03:08. | :03:20. | |
In 2014, he spent ?50,000 putting in a wood pellet burner. | :03:21. | :03:22. | |
He says the income from it is part of | :03:23. | :03:24. | |
plans to pay for a wider hotel refurbishment and if the subsidies | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
He has no qualms about letting people | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
I think it's important in the future as well | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
as publishing the names of people who engaged | :03:38. | :03:39. | |
second publication should go out after the investigation and that | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
should be the names of those people who abused the scheme. | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
Allegations of abuse and the potential for | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
reputational damage are part of the reason many firms | :03:48. | :03:49. | |
300 of them, around a quarter of the total, were part of a group | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
action by the Renewable Heat Association today | :03:54. | :03:55. | |
to stop the economy department publishing the details as planned | :03:56. | :03:57. | |
Only 4% of businesses in the scheme have | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
given permission for the details to be released. | :04:04. | :04:05. | |
For several hours, lawyers argued over | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
which had presidence - privacy or the public interest? | :04:08. | :04:17. | |
The judge reserved his findings for a week but that left | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
the problem of the potential publication of names tomorrow. | :04:21. | :04:22. | |
To address that, he issued an injunction banning the department | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
from issuing the names of anyone who was a member | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
of the Renewable Heat Association as of 5pm this evening. | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
The issue of what happens to anyone else, that was left to the | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
The economy minister was on his feet in the assembly as the | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
It left him in an awkward position about what to | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
I particularly regret the injunction that has been sought and | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
awarded this afternoon because I do think in and of itself it prevents | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
full transparency and I will take the time to consider what can now | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
The truth is that it's probably still | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
The department says it is looking at options for | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
maximum transparency which are consistent | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
The Supreme Court has ruled that Parliament's consent is needed | :05:06. | :05:13. | |
for the Government to trigger Brexit and that the devolved | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
administrations do not have to be consulted. | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
The SDLP says the judgement "undermines the democratic | :05:21. | :05:22. | |
It was the biggest vote in a generation. | :05:23. | :05:31. | |
But while the UK voted to leave the European Union, | :05:32. | :05:33. | |
Northern Ireland, like Scotland, voted to remain. | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
We're leaving anyway, says the Prime Minister. | :05:39. | :05:40. | |
But some aruged that Northern Ireland, as a devolved | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
institution, should have its say, perhaps even a veto, | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
before Article 50 is triggered, and the process | :05:50. | :05:51. | |
Today, the highest court in the land, the Supreme Court, | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
Relations with the EU are a matter for the UK Government. | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
The judges dismissed two legal challenges from Northern Ireland, | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
from political parties and the victims campaigner Raymond McCord. | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
They had argued that the UK could not quit the EU | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
without the consent of the people of Northern Ireland under | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
the terms of the Good Friday Agreement. | :06:22. | :06:23. | |
The Supreme Court ruled against the Government, | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
stating Parliament must be consulted before talks begin | :06:26. | :06:27. | |
However, they ruled the assembly here at Stormont | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
or any other devolved matter, doesn't have to be | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
There's been a mixed reaction to the judgement. | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
Good result for the people of Northern Ireland. | :06:39. | :06:40. | |
56% of people from Northern Ireland voted to remain. | :06:41. | :06:42. | |
We said all along that it has to go to | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
We are very disappointed that the Supreme Court and the | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
British Government do not recognise that this Assembly and other | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
devolved assemblies should have the right to have a say | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
We believe it drives a coach and horse through the | :07:00. | :07:07. | |
devolution that we have fought so long for and worked | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
SDLP MPs will be voting against the triggering of Article 50. | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
But it seems unlikely the vote will do anything other | :07:17. | :07:18. | |
than delay the legislation passing through Parliament. | :07:19. | :07:20. | |
The Government says it's still aiming to begin negotiations | :07:21. | :07:22. | |
on withdrawing from the EU by the end of March. | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
The police have released unconditionally two men aged 36 | :07:30. | :07:31. | |
and 39, who were arrested over Sunday's attempted murder | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
A 30-year-old man remains in custody. | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
Up to ten bullets were fired during the attack at a busy petrol | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
The officer who was among the customers was wounded in the arm. | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
An update now on story we highlighted yesterday | :07:51. | :07:52. | |
about a potentially life changing drug. | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
Three children who suffer from a severe muscle wasting | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
disease are waiting to see if they will get the drug. | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
Their parents accused the Belfast Trust of not | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
Today the Health Minister blamed a breakdown in communication | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
and said the families could expect to meet clinicians on Thursday. | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
Let's have a look at the weather prospects now. | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
Keyed evening. No frost tonight. The mild air that arrived today stays | :08:17. | :08:28. | |
with us tonight. There is lots of cloud and foggy over the hills, odd | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
spots of drizzle and the breeze will pick up. Quite windy at times | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
especially in the exposed parts of the east coast. Tomorrow the | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
southerly wind will be brisk. Fortunately, lots of dry weather to | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
come and it should still be on the mild side. Because of that breeze, | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
it should break up the cloud. A dry start, quite cloudy but breaking up | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
in places of the day goes on. Much colder if you're travelling across | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
south-east England, southern England, some frost ice and fog and | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
it will be chilly, especially for the fog sticks. Dry weather across | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
most parts of Britain, most of the rain falling over north-west | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
Scotland and the west coast of Ireland. Possibly gale force wind at | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
times. Once again tomorrow we will see temperatures in double digits. A | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
little bit brighter, less gloomy compared to today and generally dry. | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
Things are going to cool down because we start to drag our error | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
in familiar continent which has been extremely cold of late. It will | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
still be a keen wind. Much cooler Thursday on words. Temperatures will | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
fall, dampness, strong winds and initially but those winds will start | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
to ease. Frost in places this coming weekend. Mild tomorrow. | :09:48. | :09:51. |