"Green" policies are destroying this country

New windows, new radiators, and a condensing boiler are in a different league than insulation alone.

And it still cost you 45k for it all.

The thing about upgrading a home from energy/heating POV is that you rapidly hit diminishing returns as you aim for higher BERs. Going from an F to a C/D is viable, going from C/D to A/B is not. Trying to retrofit a house to heat pump standard rarely is cost effective, and is not realistically ever going to happen for most of the houses nationwide.

And if they just handed out cash grants to people there would be outrage as the inevitable fraud comes out where billions of euros are wasted on work that was never carried out.

It takes ages to become one. By the time i'm registered the grant scheme will have moved on again. Also they force the registered installers to take on big insurance. I dont think they should give the grant if the job was done shoddily

The Green party, who only took office in 2020, have been blocking oil exploration for over 10 years.

Right

Absolutely.

The chairperson of the CRU, a State Agency of the Dept. of the Environment, Climate and Communications whose agency`s responsibility is to protect the public interest in energy and energy safety, unlike the statements made to that committee posted here yesterday from Global Network and Friends of the Earth does not have a dog in the fight. Neither did she walk in and make just a brief statement.

She highlighted the latest insanity from the Irish Green party, their friends and the Minister of the Government Dept. (which her State Agency is part of), on LNG and just further emphasised what some here have been saying on energy security as regards us increasingly reliant on the U.K. as our own Corrib field becomes depleted. She even further emphasised what some here have been saying by pointing out that in doing so we don`t even meet the supply standard required by the E.U. at present.

Seems like the mother at the passing out parade, when it comes to LNG everybody else is out of step other than the Irish Green party and their supporters. Perish the thought, even Mark Ruffalo and Cher.

I think if you read the statement again when it comes to security of supply the chairpersons comment on possible damage to pipelines was not in reference to LNG but rather the Moffat pipelines. But then yet again it is likely that is to do with you just hearing what you wish to hear rather than what was said.

External insulation on an old cottage? Do your research carefully. Read accounts by people who have had this done. As far as I can see, there are several cons and only some pros to this.

Yep it is a risk you take if you decide to do a shoddy job. Only DIY it if you are sure or you see scope to redeem yourself if you do it wrong. There is no reason to punish everyone because this is a possibility. As it is the person who does it himself can be 100% sure they wont' get the grant. If that 100% is reduced any bit its a good thing. U dont need to be a genius to roll out insulation

They were also in government from 2007 to 2011.

interestingly Eamon granted exploration licences during that time:

Oil & Gas Licences: On 1st August 2007, despite Green's professed opposition to oil exploration in Irish waters, Minister Eamon Ryan duly announced a new licensing round for oil and gas exploration in the ‘Porcupine Basin’ to commence in the early autumn. Ryan's statement announcing the licence round was interesting in its own right:“Energy prices continue to rise. Both of these factors are leading to greater profits in the industry. Fewer prospective areas are open for exploration internationally, making Ireland’s unexplored basins more attractive. The Atlantic area is seriously under-explored. Departmental analysis of this area estimated risked reserves in the order of 10 billion barrels in the Atlantic area alone.”

10 billion barrels indeed. How many of those barrels have we used so far and how many are left?

You rate them afterwards, as is the case now.

I doubt any newspaper is too interested in badly rolled out insulation. I have seen it done half assed myself, that can still happen with todays grant scheme

So oil and gas exploration was banned by law before Feb. 2021. A law the Green party insisted on being introduced before they signed the Programme for Government.

Right.