Enterprise, Trade and Investment

Part of Oral Answers to Questions – in the Northern Ireland Assembly at 2:00 pm on 19 March 2013.

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Photo of Arlene Foster Arlene Foster DUP 2:00, 19 March 2013

As I indicated to Ms Lo, as we look forward to 2050, we see that there are major uncertainties with new technologies, some of which will flourish and some of which will fail.  Indeed, we must also consider how behaviours and infrastructure will have changed over the intervening period.  So, I believe that it is wrong to rule anything out of the equation.  Of course, nuclear energy is a reserved matter that still sits with Westminster, and therefore, it will remain there.  However, that does not stop us including nuclear energy in any vision that we may have for 2050.