"Green" policies are destroying this country

And yet bizarrely you did not know that Ireland had its own reserves of natural gas. And we now need more than ever a safe, secure and reliable source of natural gas. That would be best for Ireland. Germany of course will do what's best for Germany. And yet we have some here who seem to be quite happy to kick Ireland in the bolloxs and make sure Ireland won't even be allowed to find new reserves of natural gas.

I think we need to differentiate between eco friendly policies and the policies of the most ridiculous party in the country who simply happen to have the name green party.

One is worth investing in long term. The other is really ruining the country.

Most of the turbines were installed when the Greens didn't have a seat at the table, same for legislation allowing people to install larger solar arrays than councils would give tham planning for. If no other country has built a green hydrogen industry, you might want to wonder if the idea is viable practical.

Most of the climate imperative comes from EU requirements anyway so all parties will take action to meet those. What you get with the Greens is nonsensical legislation like diesel vs petrol and trying to ban LNG entirely, punitive CO2 taxes and unachievable targets for home heating refurbishment, 'encouraged' by punative fuel cost increases.

Have you looked at the data? https://inchem.org/documents/iarc/vol46/46-01.html

"Overall Evaluation

Diesel engine exhaust is probably carcinogenic to humans (Group 2A).

Gasoline engine exhaust is possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B)."

In one study, they fed rats petrol engine exhausts for 2 years and no increase in cancer rates was observed.

Diesel exhausts contain the most potent carcinogen ever discovered, petrol exhausts don't.

Well once again your comment shows your own ignorance on that subject

"Tiny gas supply" my arse

In 2016 the corrib gas field alone contributed the equivalent of 50% of Ireland's gas consumption. With 58% in total coming from all indigenous natural resource reserves

Today that figure is approx 30-35% of Ireland's gas consumption

You ask why the same topic is being discussed? You mean posters discussing the need for Ireland to be able to use its own Natural resources? Or maybe where your own ignorance meant you didn't even know we had our own indigenous natural gas supply?

Maybe a better question would be, why the continued diatribe against Ireland being able to use indigenous natural gas resources going forward?

Or maybe why has the exploration and exploitation of natural gas resources has effectively been shut down because of the dictates of a small number of green party extremists in this country at a time when a safe, secure and dependable supply of gas is needed more than ever?

Maybe put a bit of thought into those questions rather than simply blindly pushing the green party manifesto as if its gospel and the discussion would be a bit more constructive

BS. Diesel exhaust containing the most potent carcinogen ever discovered has been known about since 1997. It's not just NOX - the diesel particulates problem has always been know and isn't part of dieselgate and on it's own should have been enough to never favour dieslels, but the hysteria over CO2 prevailed. So that's two issues with diesels that are enough to never favour them, were known in 2008 and which have nothing to do with NOX vs CO2 and dieselgate.

And as for the idea nobody could predict - that is an outrageous lie. The whole Fuc*ing point of the punative VRT rates, the skewed excise rates and the skewed registration costs was precisely to change behaviour, and those 3 measures had the desired effect. The tax changes were not subtle.

Next you will be telling us carbon taxes aren't intended to raise revenue or change behaviour.

Please provide a link to the advice from the government in or around 2008, where people were advised to keep their current cars and not switch to diesels?