"Green" policies are destroying this country

The Carbon Tax was introduced under the FF-Green government in 2010.

but we can fly our beef and dairy and live pigs and calves to every corner of the Earth, that's fine is it?

You must have an old house if it'll costs 100k to bring it up to spec.

Any modern house would be much cheaper to retrofit to run off electric heating

You can refuse to invest in your own property, when your property value is way lower because it's an unloved old building with a BER rating from the 1970s, people will be taking the price of the investment off the price they're prepared to pay for the house

I'm sure you'll come back now and say that you have no intention of selling your house ever so the property value is meaningless, you still need to spend money on the upkeep of a house or it costs you more in the long run

The government will be doling out grants and subsidies to people as the years progress to get the national housing stock up to spec, you strike me as the kind of person who would refuse assistance to renovate your house even if it was given for free and would find some reason to turn it down and blame it on someone else.

Says the city slicker that has gas at the flick of a switch and a bus at the end of the road.

As for Healy-Ray and Fitzmaurice, both shrewd businessmen who have done very well for themselves outside politics, not like the city muppets that never paid a wage in their lives, with stupid schoolkid American accents thinking it makes them more intelligent or the few others that can't even string a sentence together.

What are the likes of you going to do now that all the major transport projects are shoved so far out that they will never be built, maybe if you concentrated on something like that instead of having a go at people living in the country every chance you get you would be better off.

Low IQ in rural Ireland, I suggest you take a look around your own city before you make a comment like that again.

I live in a council estate, it would prob put the fear of god into any rural dweller, people wear tracksuits around here etc.

But no I wouldn't live in rural Ireland by hook or by crook. My point was that people go on about living in the countryside being greener than city dwelling, but sure if we were all to do it the countryside would be in an even worse state.

If you want to be taken seriously at your word then it is a very good idea and it brings the benefit of accountability to those that are providing the revenue that it is being used for what it was promised

Yes, here we are again, expert opinion versus an anonymous internet poster with skin in the game. Think I will stick with the expert opinion.

You see they are not experts, just a talking shop.

It would be rather nice if we were self sufficient energy wise, no?

Parking the "green agenda" it is absurd that we spend billions importing energy when we have huge untapped renewable energy resources domestically.

The only big project cancelled was the Eastern Bypass.

The existing delays to Metrolink, Bus Connects and DART+ were incorporated into the plan i.e. the plan didn't delay them, it just took account of the design and consultation progress since the last plan.

DART Underground has been delayed, but in the context of the Glasnevin interchange, that may not be an issue. Better to wait to see how that proposal works.

Cycling and pedestrian infrastructure have been advanced.

Roads have been deprioritised.

many wont be willing or able to take on the extra debt, its a dreadful plan, and wont work

ESB don't want it, they don't want the bother of connecting up solar panels, sh1t digesters and small Irish owned wind turbines, they don't want anyone getting a discount, how the f##k can they update the fleet to new model Land rover Defenders if people want money off, how will the great grandchildren of the current staff get employed with the company if they are allowing every soap to plug into the grid :), it'll never do

Not sure what you don't get about this being extra debt on people who already have mortgages, bills and other debts and costs to pay. €276 p.m. for 10 years is a huge amount of money and equals c.€33k. And for the Plan to work we need people to buy EVs as well so they'll have the car loan on top of this. The energy upgrades won't pay for themselves in that time.

The average heat and electricity bills in Ireland is c.€1,600 per annum. Let's go wild and say that all these upgrades save you €1k per year on electricity bills (they won't but let's go along with it anyway). You've coughed up €33k but at €1k annual savings it'll take 33 years to pay itself back. Oh and the heat pump will need to replaced in that time. Not very attractive is it?

100%. Existing houses are just not suited to this but that's the plan. They weren't built for heat pumps or electric water heaters and the likes.

It's a scam to be honest. I did my attic insulation over the last few months. There's a €400 grant for it from the SEAI - great. Got a couple of quotes coming in at c.€1.4k so around €1,000 after the grant. Robbery. I bought the insulation and did the job myself for c.€450. But because I didn't use the SEAI contractors I couldn't get the grant even though they were charging exorbitant rates for the job. Farce.