Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

When we put a deadline to a scheme, is it not to incentivise and force companies to do something, such as looking at energy-efficient equipment, because unless they do so they will not have the benefits later on? As schemes are extended over and over again, we send a message to companies that while there is a deadline and a scheme, for example, will not be available after 1 January 2018, in reality history shows that these schemes will continue on.