The temporary business energy support scheme, TBESS, was announced with fanfare some months ago after the budget as being the saviour of many rural and urban businesses. It has now transpired that many businesses in rural areas if they do not use gas - we do not have gas in many towns never mind in rural areas - and if they use oil for instance as their main way of creating industry, pressing the laundry industry and industries like that, will be denied access to this TBESS. That is totally discriminatory against rural Ireland again because such people do not have an opportunity to have piped gas in the towns. Many towns do not have it, never mind the countryside. Something needs to be done about this anomaly if it is a fact and I am told that it is. It is discriminatory against rural businesses and it must be changed.

The good news is that I believe the Minister will be in a position to advance the TBESS through amendments to the Finance Bill. Good progress is also being made on the commission. We hope this can be operational before the end of the year. I will again talk to the Minister about the issue the Deputy has raised regarding the use of oil, for example. There is no intended discrimination.

I wonder with the Green Party.

Many of these schemes depend on the methodology of payments and how best one can organise the scheme.

A bill for oil is the same as one for gas.

We will come back to the Deputy.