Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

I have not had any contact with the Commissioner for state aids but I can tell the Deputy that I have raised it directly with Commissioner Oettinger, the energy Commissioner. I expected that we would have it by now. The Deputy asked me in his question to specify the reasons for the delay and to be honest with him. I do not know the reason it is taking so long. I am advised we have complied with everything that has been requested from us. The application is submitted and I presume the bureaucratic processing of these applications takes this length of time. When we got the approval for REFIT 3 in respect of the biomass technologies approximately three weeks ago or whenever, we were then orally advised that REFIT 2 would follow on immediately. As recently as yesterday it has not followed on.

See this speech in context