Inflation

Excellent recommendations towards a sustainable taxation system and a reduction in carbon emissions.

both the private and public sectors cutting at the same time is extremely detrimental to an economy and society, the only way through supply side inflation is a rise in public borrowing and spending....

Science changes, policy changes.

There were grants for more efficient boilers until recently, they are gone now, as the technology for heat pumps gets better and they will replace them.

Hundreds of thousands of people car dependant because they chose to live in rural areas that are not conducive to public transport.

You miss the point the policy should not be changed until a viable alternative is given. This has been an issue with governments for the last number of decades. They try to cram changes down our throats without proper thought or an analysis on any unintended consequences. So will you say "Science changes, policy changes", if their policy leads to rolling blackouts this winter.? I don't remember any government party getting a majority of votes on the basis of over taxing diesel (so I don't see how they have remit to do this) and this after almost a decade of governments telling people to go and use diesel instead of petrol cars as it was better for the environment? You have to remember the amount of tax we pay in this country should be more than enough for decent public transport as soon as you go outside of the big four areas (Dublin, Galway, Cork and Limerick) there is a shocking lack of public transport and road infrastructure. I have no bother paying carbon tax when the alternative is there as in the electric vehicles and the charge points and public transport is up to code and can be used by the majority of the population. We are at least 5 years away from that choice but once again they put the gun to the head to people who have no other choice. Also how long have people been living in rural areas as far as I am aware people have been living in rural areas a lot longer than the production of diesel, heat pumps or any other item you mention, ergo there should be more thought put into policy decisions that affect these people. The other point is we are emitting about 0.1% emissions of the global emissions we are fairly small bananas globally, China = 30%, US 15%. The powers that be are punishing people by taxing more (remember this money is not put by it just goes into the pool of monies in the exchequer its not put aside for making the country greener) because they have a diesel car and no other option to get around. Its actually quite sickening to see at a time when every price is going through the roof.

That absolute EU cretin Von der leyen now transferring the covid insanity over to the self created energy one-“flatten the curve” apparently to tackle energy demand.

Was house hunting all through COVID and the period leading up to it. Looked for housing in urban areas near Cork City and couldn't afford it. Bought 20mins out from the city in a decent sized a village that has a bus to the city 3 times a day. Happy here but to say people are choosing to live rurally where they are repaint on cars is very ignorant.

If they are saying we are coming out the other side, expect complete opposite is going to happen.

There is some sort of a hype amongst our glorious leaders, they cant stop talking how they do have plan in this budget to help households and businesses. Only that printing ton of fresh money and handing them over is actually going to make it all worse since more money will be competing for less products and services. That situation has a name. It is called inflation and our experts (on national and EU level) are so hyped up with this idea of free money they will make sure it will end up a notch higher. Think hyperinflation.

Ara listen to you.

You do appreciate that hundreds of thousands of people cannot live in cities anyway, even if they wanted to, for numerous reasons.

The reality, right now, is you are not going to move hundreds and thousands of people from rural areas into cities in the next few months so that they can use public transport. Something needs to be done to support these people who are reliant on cars/fuel etc.

But why are the government looking to jump on the bandwagon and puting an extra tax on top for people who have no other choice. I mean its clear we over tax our citizens when does the high rate of tax kick in??? So the greens have been saying it since 2005 ok well then the question has to be asked, why has there been such a delay nearly 20 years in finding a replacement for these people? Where are the electric cars and charge points, where is the public transport outside the big 4? Your saying now they bought there and should have understood that there would never be decent transport just wont happen? Why? So what is your solution and remember you have to realise we also have a housing crisis ? Not only is their currently not enough houses for people to buy but housing to rent is also at an all time low. So is your idea and the greens idea to tell these people stop living in their house outside the big cities and pitch a tent big city or pay more for a commodity we asked you to move to for the guts of a decade? As there is no where near enough housing to house them all within these big cities. The government have phucked it all up and instead of trying to tackle the issue they are simply going to tax a commodity more, that a high % of the general public have been told to move to over the last decade and even this money will not be used to help find a solution. The country is an absolute joke.

Sure the companies doing the retrofit up the price by the cost of the grant this has been the case for the majority of people getting a quote