Plans are in place within the Department for the Economy for a list of individuals who have received payment under the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) to be published next week.

Claimants had until Wednesday to confirm their details and raise objections about their names being released into the public domain. This follows a court case in March in which the judge ruled that individual names could only be published if objections were identified and considered by the department. “We hope to release the list next week; we are possibly looking at Tuesday,” a Department for the Economy spokesperson told the Irish Farmers Journal.

The list will state the names of individual claimants as well as their postcode, boiler type and amount of payment received up to 28 February 2017. It is unclear at present how many individuals successfully presented a case for their names not to be released, although the number is thought to be low.

“It’s been an ongoing process. Claimants have been written to a number of times and this was the final opportunity for them to make a case and for us to inform them that it is our intention to publish,” the department spokesperson said.

RHI claimants who have been paid more than £5,000 under the scheme are to be named on the list. One claimant who had been paid an amount marginally over this threshold was unsuccessful in a court case in Belfast this week as he tried to prevent his details from being released.

A separate list of limited companies, as well as public sector, community and voluntary organisations that receive payments under RHI, was published by the department in March.