Mr. Declan Hughes:

That is why we have introduced these changes working with colleagues in the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications and with the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, SEAI. It was opportune. We had a scheme that was not being taken up so we asked what more we could do and how we could increase the scale of the deployment. That is where our focus was and why we introduced those changes. Working with colleagues in the Department of Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, we managed to secure some of the TBESS money for it. It is a forward looking scheme. We have not been getting that feedback from companies that deployed solar panels earlier. As I understand it , the numbers were quite low. It might not have been as attractive as it was a capped scheme. It now goes up to 1 megawatt, which is fantastic. We want to see how it rolls out in the next six months. The message to businesses is to engage with the SEAI on deployment to try to get that infrastructure in place in the next few months.