"Green" policies are destroying this country

Lol. That's some olympic level whataboutery there

Combined with a complete non sequitur

If you care about public services being ineffecient, then why don't you care about private sector funnelling thousands of additional euros from your bank account into their asset portfolio

All is going to happen with these abandoned bogs is that they are going to be turned into the biggest open dumps in Ireland .in mid tipp on the Kilkenny boarder the amount of rubbish illegally dumped is astonishing.fridges ,electrical items and the rest .

How can you "repurpose" agriculture ?

The entire purpose of agriculture is to grow food to feed people which is rather essential I would think.

Subs are there for a reason,to support the production of foodstuff in the EU to ensure security of supply and to provide the EU with food at below the cost of production.

Ukraine situation has brought it home to people that it doesn't take much to make something you took for granted as never ending can stop almost instantly.

Trees and solar panels might be nice to look at but when you are hungry they are not high on the priority list.

For those who believe we could/should import all our food then do you really think countries like Brazil are regulated anywhere near the extent of EU farmers ?Or that we should outsource the most essential thing for human survival ?

I have followed this thread since the start and to be honest there are a few posters on here who are either on the wind up,seriously deluded or as an elderly neighbour might say "a wee bit hard of thinking ".

2021 and 2022 were record low payouts for REFIT. Why, you ask?

Because renewable companies also received the highest recorded profits in their histories(and therefore weren't eligible for REFIT top ups). So much so, that the government recently had to cap the maximum price they can receive in the balancing market. However, unlike conventional generation who had increased operational costs (fuel, plant running costs etc), renewable companies had no such additional overheads so trousered the entirety. But somehow you don't find that interesting enough to note?

Your argument is that nothing we do matters because some other bigger agent is causing more harm. My argument is that we should oppose the system that allows all agents to get away with doing everyone harm

This means putting our own house in order and putting restrictions on economic activity that causes more harm than good

Your argument is a license for all harm to continue forever, mine is a framework to begin solving global problems piece by piece in a complex multinational effort.

Sure why not tax them for sitting on the chair at their desk too? Never miss an opportunity to tax the masses for something that they may not be able to avoid.

Some employees are required to drive for work using their own car. Should they then be taxed for visiting the office?

Its not remotely coordinated. Random numbers plucked out of ER's hole. Where's the coordination with the rest of Europe? The Greens plan to build 50GW of intermittent generation for a 10GW system. Where does the rest of it go? The UK don't want it (we already regularly import during High wind) and the EU bloc have their own ridiculous ambition in the North Sea. Zero coordination across the board. Just fanciful individual dreams with no hope of being realised due to global supply chain bottlenecks. But yeah, cling onto your CAP.

What are you talking about? I didn't reference any summit but you can dream whatever you want (like your precious minister). Every EU country is proposing their own nonsense for years. There's zero coordination. If they happened to meet recently, there's not been any meaningful changes revealed. They're all in it for themselves. But it's just hot air, hot air for the sake of hot air. 80% of it will never build, just like every other round of RES-E.

If an employer provides you a 'free' uniform that the employer requires you to wear, should you be taxed on it?

Agriculture in Ireland needs to be, and will be, right sized.

Yes, we need food and yes we need farms.

But we dont need as many farms as we have and we dont need to produce the amounts of food we are producing and we dont need to subsidise every farm in existance across the country, forever.

The environmental impact is of course going to lead to farm reduction in Ireland and across the globe.

It does feel that some farmers feel the country owes them a living and that it is only just that we forever subsidise them. That has to end.

No other industry would expect that special treatment and considering the disastrous impact on the climate caused by modern day farming, the industry really is in the crosshairs.

To reiterate, we do need farms and there will always be good support for farmers, but i dont think anyone can reasonably argue that we are not over farmed in this country.

We need to moderate and right size the industry, while promoting a positive environmental impact.

Yes I know. So why is a parking space at a location with no public transport not the same as a uniform. The employe gets no personal benefit other than being able to attend work

Most workers have free parking at work. Public Vs private sector is just a red herring

The closer you get to a city centre the More likely parking is going to be expensive. But also avoidable