"Green" policies are destroying this country

So the recent media reports (just last week) were incorrect or maybe it was only said that for "tactical" reasons as you previously explained, when they already set out their stall in 2020 and said the they'd hold the same threat over the coalition government in order to get their own way?

Glad you are able to clear that up anyway 🙄

What are you onabout? You're the one trying to twist the original comment

Do you not believe the 27th of July 2022 is somehow not just the other week as per the last link provided by the OP and as I detailed? And that story was all over the news and was reported in various Irish newspapers including the Irish Times and the Irish Mirror under the banner "Green Party could walk away from Government if deal on cut to farmers' emissions is too low" (linked above) etc following an interview with Pauline O'Reilly (Senator and Chair of the Green Party) on RTE

This is the relevant part of transcript from that RTE interview @6:30 minutes into the broadcast

Interviewer:

"You as a Chair  person of the green party If you were to find yourself  on a figure of 23, 22 % something at the lower end of ambition - what happens next Pauline? Would you be suggesting that a green party convenes a meeting and discusses it future support for this government?"

Pauline O'Reily:

"I think that would be on the cards , you know that's quite clear"

So bizarrely looks like someone is indeed trying to fudge the fact that the the chair of the green party did indeed threaten their coalition partners by (again) claiming the party would not support the government (ie the green party would walk) if they don't get their own way!

It's a suggested target. Meaningless really.

Whats with the constant denial and the outright bs? Ive updated my comment with the relevant transcript from the RTE interview of the 27 July. Here it is again.

Interviewer:

"You as a Chair person of the green party If you were to find yourself on a figure of 23, 22 % something at the lower end of ambition - what happens next Pauline? Would you be suggesting that a green party convenes a meeting and discusses it future support for this government?"

Pauline O'Reily:

"I think that would be on the cards , you know that's quite clear"

That's verbatim from Pauline O'Reilly, Senator and Chair of the Green Party on RTE just the other week ie the 27/072022.

It would be good if you didn't try and twist the facts DaCor. It does you no favours whatsoever.

‘We should be studying these possibilities so we can be prepared for them.’

Looking for more grants? The entire climate change fiasco has been a bottomless pit with Billions mostly wasted on it for a pipe dream.

And now ye want to feck up the farmers, I can go to the Supermarket and buy the best of meat and dairy products at a reasonable price which you would change if ye got half a chance…enough!

Because if they don’t you’ll attempt to enforce it…

Because they are the last indigenous industry we have that competes successfully on the global market. You eradicate farmers from existence, and lets say some future conflict arises with the likes of the Communist party in China to the same extent as the current conflict with Russia, this Island will be absolutely and totally f**ked. We will literally have nothing.

Even your mathematics are dodgy. Either that or you are still sore on them caving from 30% to 25%.

For someone supposedly not a Green Party supporter you really do go to the most ridiculous lengths attempting to defend them.

Not sure what you are getting at because that's exactly what I said, that the farmers are "our last indigenous industry we have that competes successfully on the global market". That is literally the truth. It is all we have to direct worldwide funds back to our actual indigenous and local economies.

So why does it account for a few percent of the economy - and that isn't even accounting for subsides. Its insignificant in the grand scheme of things. if it actually offered us any real food security then it would be something.

The cuts been asked for will not destroy the industry. It will accellerate changes which they would have to face anyway as fuel and fertilizer prices continie to rise on a yearly basis. If farmers do not adopt a low impact form of farming - most would go out of business anyway.

Thats the type of nonsense that the greens in this country are fond of spouting.

Ireland currently has the accolade as the number one country for food security in the world.

In the event of the disruption of imports Ireland could indeed feed itself. It might not be a diet the greens living in leafy D4 might be used to, but no one would starve. But god love them but there might be no avocados and quinoa.

Agriculture in Ireland and associated food processing remains a significant part of the Irish economy whether that suits any green ideology or otherwise. Most of what we export goes to our trading partners in the UK and the EU from whom we buy goods in return.

We import all kinds of things in this country. Yeah that includes potatos including new and salad potatos etc which other countries produce earlier than us or specific varieties of potatos used in the catering industry etc. Buy more importantly do you honestly think that potatoes can be grown a year round in the Irish climate?

What other goods do you propose to restrict or ban outright from being imported or export. Or is that just more green bolloxolgy being thown at agriculture?

We also produce a huge range of pharmaceuticals here including paracetamol. And yet we also import paracetamol. Fcuking disgrace isn't it? And yeah agriculture here provides beef, lamb, pork, poultry, eggs, milk, butter, cheese, butter, yogurt, potatos and also fruit and veg in those areas suitable for market gardening and close to markets. And do people in Ireland always buy Irish produce, when they can buy the same food produced and imported from elsewhere? Are you going to lobby to pass laws where people will be forced to buy only food produced here and stop imports. Best of luck with that

You have no "facts". That's the fact. Busted.