"Green" policies are destroying this country

Green policies also improve the standards of accommodation. Warmer houses, better insulation make for a better quality of life. Grants to reduce energy consumption reduce the cost of living, reduced anxiety for people on lower or fixed incomes

There are no solutions only trade-offs. If you are tasked with providing accommodation you can have a 1000 units available including the 300 that completely meet your standards all at different price points, with the remainder having various infractions of your standard. When you apply the standard, 500 of those units disappear from the market and another 200 are updated to meet the standard. You have reduced the number of units available to 500 and those remaining command a higher price since maintaining the standard involves more overhead including extra paperwork that goes with the bureaucracy.

Eamon Ryan in his role as part of the government of the day passed legislation that took 5 years before it took effect, the council came in an shutdown the slumlords. The people who rented these places could find another place at the time if they had employment, the reminder were kicked out onto the street. I'm talking about mostly single men in their 40s and over, some of whom are fond of the juice or socially isolated for various reasons. The type of people who don't vote and you don't want around, but, they are always there and always will be. What are the consequences when you are the bottom and have no where to go? Death. (1,2). Students and recently arrived economic migrants would also have been a large part of the former clientele. Students are high risk tenants, about one third of them disappear after Christmas in their first year, without supervision they have a higher propensity to wreck the gaff and engage in all night parties. i.e. there is an overhead to them.

The slumlords got forced out, a new group of builders came in and did the places up, sold on to foreign investment funds. The funds don't deal with Housing Assistance Payment (HAP), if you don't have employment and can't meet the rental payments, in the current economic cycle, it sucks, your quality of life is much worse. You can see this in particular for university students this year, their parents need to stump up for high priced accommodation, if they can't afford it them must endure long travel times or defer taking on the course.

The enforcement of standards carries an overhead and a price, those who can pay enjoy the benefits of improved standards of accommodation. If your income in not high enough to be a green voter, no service for you.

Any while the 'world burned' in 2022, wildfires in Kerry actually halved, who would have thought laws and actual sense would have more control on random wild fires than any environmental impact.

Anyone want to take bets on how long it is until one of these buses catches fire with passengers inside? EV bus fires are not unheard of, and it's not exactly like plain old diesel buses add so much to our carbon emissions anyway.

There have been a few of those in Germany, aside from the fire risk (on a tangent see the Felicity Ace), the projects have been abandoned due to the replacement battery costs involved and other technical limitations.

Speaking of fire risk here is a developing issue. E-bikes and likely scooters are growing and predicted to grow further in over the course of the decade: Experts Predict 30 Million Bicycle Sales by 2030

This is a new hazard that has developed with these, it has become a serious problem in places like New York city and it is beginning here: Dublin Fire Brigade warning after e-scooter catches fire while charging.

Oh that’s fantastic and seems to be the green mantra going forward look outside and make sure the wind is blowing before boiling a kettle, putting on a wash or drying your hair.

i would ask what happens when the wind doesn’t blow but I’d get the usual wall of text about un-costed and unproven technologies that will save the day.

So you expect Norway which is not even a member of the E.U. to adhere to a commitment to the E.U. while Ireland, a full member, refuses to fulfill it`s E.U. commitments on energy security.

The E.U. just this month put a cap on gas prices, (while doing nothing about the marginal pricing policy where renewables are still getting paid the same rate as gas), something Norway warned against in September.

Do not be overly surprised if the U.K. does cut the supply to Ireland that Norway take some time to sort that out diplomatically with the U.K. while we freeze in the dark and the E.U does nothing other than wring their hands on the sidelines.

And if there’s a technical issue with the Moffat lines we are down 70% of our gas supply with NO storage available.

Do you think that is acceptable?

Well of course there should be storage.

That’s what I’ve being saying on here all along.

Eamon Ryan with energy within his portfolio is directly responsible for the continuation of this setup.

So you’d agree a technical failure on the pipeline system is very very unlikely?

It’s not a pipeline. There are three pipelines.