Ms Aoife MacEvilly:

What we are saying is that, based on the application we received, Mayo Renewable Limited was only able to demonstrate that the efficient heat use was worth a partial certificate. The cost of the fuel makes the processes that it is proposing quite expensive. It is an expensive way to dry woodchips. That is what we have to keep in mind. Compared with an alternative process for drying woodchips, for example, a high-efficiency boiler, what Mayo Renewable Limited is proposing is only about one third as efficient. That is the core problem. If one has a low cost of fuel and a low-cost energy, one can effectively afford to have a less efficient process and still meet the economic test. The problem is the cost at which the facility operates and the efficiency of the process that the company has proposed.