diff --git a/mdx/ie_edugate/beans.xml b/mdx/ie_edugate/beans.xml
index 3c688a4e..5ee0d530 100644
--- a/mdx/ie_edugate/beans.xml
+++ b/mdx/ie_edugate/beans.xml
@@ -5,6 +5,16 @@
 <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
     xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd"> 
 
+    <!--
+        Fetch the export aggregate.
+    -->
+    <bean id="ie_edugate_exportAggregate" class="net.shibboleth.metadata.dom.DomHttpSourceStage"
+        init-method="initialize" lazy-init="true">
+        <property name="id" value="ie_edugate_exportAggregate"/>
+        <property name="parserPool" ref="parserPool"/>
+        <property name="sourceUrl" value="https://edugate.heanet.ie/edugate-ukfed-signed.xml"/>        
+    </bean>
+    
     <!--
         Fetch the production aggregate.
     -->
@@ -43,8 +53,7 @@
         <property name="id" value="ie_edugate_exportedEntities"/>
         <property name="composedStages">
             <list>
-                <!-- no export aggregate; use the production one instead -->
-                <ref bean="ie_edugate_productionAggregate"/>
+                <ref bean="ie_edugate_exportAggregate"/>
                 <ref bean="ie_edugate_checkSignature"/>
                 
                 <!-- failure to validate signature is fatal -->