Willie Penrose (Westmeath, Labour)
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Question 997: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will review the application by a company (details supplied) in County Westmeath for a licence for the MOT excise relief scheme and consider the granting of such licence in view of the work that has been done to date by this company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2054/07]

Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)
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The Biofuels MOT Relief Scheme II was publicly advertised as a competitive call for proposals open to anyone who could fulfil the criteria laid out in the Guidance Note relating to the scheme which was provided to all prospective applicants. There were 102 applications received overall under the scheme. The range and quality of applications was exceptionally high. The assessment panel comprised officials from my Department, Sustainable Energy Ireland and Enterprise Ireland. Each application was marked individually in accordance with the evaluation criteria outlined in the Guidance Note provided to all applicants for the Scheme.

My officials recently met with representatives of the company in question to give them feedback on the scoring of the application they submitted under the scheme. While the application from the company was of high quality, the project did not score as highly as the successful applicants in the category and as with all other categories demand exceeded availability.