Ms Sinead Ryan:

All the energy sources were considered at the time. However, it was decided when the TBESS was introduced that the scheme would be based on the metered supply of electricity and natural gas and that metered connection was a very important feature for the administrability of the scheme. We also understood at the time the level of increases seen in the gas prices were not on par with those seen with oil and LPG and because of the requirement to have a metered connection it just was not possible at the time to extend the scheme. That is why the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment was tasked with creating a separate scheme for those businesses and they announced the business users support scheme for kerosene that launched last September.