Ms Aoife MacEvilly:

Our process has not changed. In 2012, we published a very detailed process as to how we would process the applications. We have certainly learned as we have gone through the 113 applications but the process is effectively the same. The application has changed. Looking at this from the outside, I appreciate that Deputy Lisa Chambers's question is valid. It is the same plant. It is the same technical specification of plant but, as we have explained, the key focus at which we are looking is the business case for the heat use. That is the data that has changed. The data provided by the previous applicant, as Mr. Melvin outlined, was about importing a cheap fuel to burn in the plant and then selling a high-quality fuel into the Irish biomass market. The application we received in 2018 was different. It had a different business case for the heat use. As Mr. Melvin has explained, it was using that high-quality fuel within the process to burn as the fuel for the plant. The economics have changed quite dramatically. Mr. Melvin might be able to go into this a bit more. In respect of the justification provided by the applicant, it demonstrated to us that this could be done on an economic basis but by a much more efficient process. This is why when we issued the certificate, it was a partial rather than a full certificate because in a way, the new application was only demonstrating that part of the output of the plant would be efficient in line with the criteria. Perhaps Mr. Melvin can address that.