"It may be lawful for Stormont to break its promises, but there's still a price"

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Cited in Belfast Telegraph article considering consequences of cutting back RHI subsidies

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The relevant paragraph read as follows:

"A judge has to enforce the law, and if the law says Stormont's broken promise is lawful, it is lawful. But as Ulster University senior economist Esmond Birnie observed, "You tamper with the security of property rights at your peril". He said RHI "has done reputational damage to NI in this regard"."