Reading about the RHI incentive that is currently causing a conflagration in Stormont corridors, Stalker was bemused to learn who was the minister for enterprise at the time that the initiative was brought into being.
BBC Spotlight have since done an investigation into the whole scheme.
Said minister oversaw the department for seven years. And a senior official has called it “one of the biggest scandals since devolution.”
To be sure, presiding over a disastrous green energy scheme seems totally non-detrimental to political success.
Although a week is a long time in politics and since writing this there has been plenty more ructions over the "cash for ash" scheme.
