Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There was a big increase in the last week of January in the number of applications. We have extended the deadline to allow other submissions to come in. The guidelines on Revenue's website for see TBESS were 121 pages long. This seems to have been a bit intimidating for some small businesses that would potentially have had to pay an accountant to come in and put the applications together for them, which seems to have been a concern. We are going to see if it is possible to simplify this process. Feedback from businesses suggests that we will see a surge in those applying. Businesses would have been working through the busy Christmas period and delayed this type of bureaucratic form-filling process. Potentially, there may be confusion around the climate toolkit. Feedback in this regard suggests that some businesses thought they had-----