The Northern Ireland Assembly is set to debate small scale green legislation next week.

Developed by Sinn Féin's John O’Dowd, the Bill aims to provide the opportunity for homes, farms, small businesses, community groups and co-ops to generate green electricity from small-scale generators such as wind turbines or solar panels and receive a guaranteed minimum price when they sell it to the grid.

This debate comes just as a new report was published by the Assembly's Public Accounts Committee into the north's Renewable Obligations scheme.

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Calling for a robust response the report, Sinn Féin representative Caoimhe Archibald said: "The Public Accounts Committee report once again highlights that lessons from this scheme must be learned. 

"However, it is also clear that the incentive schemes provided the basis for our renewable electricity targets to be met and exceeded.

"Looking to the future, it is important that the recommendations of this report, and an Audit Office report which preceded it, are implemented along with those of the RHI report.

"The new Energy Strategy must ensure there is a robust regulatory framework in place to expand our green energy capacity while ensuring all legislative and operational safeguards."