The UUP has hit out at the DUP for refusing to answer questions in relation to the botched Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme which is set to cost the public purse around £490million.

Ulster Unionist Assembly candidate for Upper Bann, Doug Beattie MC, called on the party to explain their role in the scandal and asked where they are going to get the money from to replace the £85,000 per day currently going up in smoke.

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He said: "That's why they refused to answer any questions today at the DUP manifesto launch. Their position is indefensible and their record shameful. People should not buy the DUP snake oil at this election.

"The DUP's record is clear for all to see. With Paisley, you got Sinn Fein, with Robinson you got Sinn Fein and with Foster last May you got Sinn Fein. If people swallow the same lies from the DUP again which denigrate other unionists, they`ll end up with the DUP and Sinn Fein back together. That will mean more scandal, more failure and Northern Ireland on a downward spiral of despair. The pair of them have driven the political institutions into the ground. They are the problem, not the solution."

(CD)