"Green" policies are destroying this country

Sounds like FG are doing a bit of electioneering with some of the recent things. Anything there was a big backlash about they were out throwing soundbites around. The NRL was one, yet they voted for it in the end despite Leo saying it needed more wok and clarity. I don't know if there was much derision at the rail plan but Leo again brought a bit of realism to the table.

I was reading today an opinion piece about the rail plan, or at least it was mentioned. In it it said the UK are talking about scrapping HS2 due to the cost and the little benefit it would bring now. That's the opposite of what is proposed here. In addition, spending all that money on rail when there's a move to EVs isn't going to help the climate as the transport fleet would be decarbonised by a lot once EVs are the mode of choice. It won't help with congestion though and that's one of the reasons Ryan should be reprimanded for attempting to delay/stop road building as cars, rightly or wrongly, are seen by many as a way of free movement and not be curtailed by timetables (I'd agree with that myself). It was suggested then that the focus should now move to peak time congestion in cities and away from curtailing car use across the country at all times.

Link to piece - https://www.farmersjournal.ie/tax-strategy-groups-pre-budget-report-776968

FG did vote against the NRL at the European Paliaments Agriculture Committee stage, as did SF, so once the rewetting, which was the main concern for farmers, was mostly sidelined then they can always say they were part of achieving that. FG seem to be getting the message that the natives down the country are not happy, but what FF were playing at is anybody`s guess where McConalogue FF TD for Donegal and Minister for Agriculture,Food and the Marine was still backing the E.U, Commissions plan, or indeed where Ming the Merciless turf cutter was going doing the same.

Governments here usually get a kicking from the electorate mid way through their term at local elections, and with nothing much more than a year between the next local and GE, that kicking could easily carry over in that short space of time. FG at least seem to have woken up to the danger to their rural Dail seats, FF are sleepwalking along still.

Not surprised at the UK HS2 rail plan in trouble. Much like what was proposed here it has all the look of a money pit without any discernible advantages. Greens do wish lists with no economic cost benefit analysis. The only time they did any costing here was on the rail plan, but rather than going for 100% of their wish list and doing a cost benefit anlysis on the the various propsals, it had to be an all or nothing that doomed sections that could have made economic sense.

At this stage I`m not sure greens have any interest in EV`s, or for that matter public transport when you see 130 buses sitting in garages because there is no means of charging them. It`s everyone on bikes and back to pre-industrialisation.

High frequency bus routes?

Is that when 3 buses come at once, after waiting 30 minutes plus after their scheduled slot per the timetable? They can't even get low frequency buses on time.

So the three present parties in government would publish their individual manifestos stating what they propose to do if elected to govern.

Would it be in the foreword or in an addendum at the end of each manifesto that nothing in their manifestos really meant anything other than if they got the numbers they might cobble something together ?

Varadkar is just attempting to play the FG card of scary SF.

FG and FF could quite easily put a manifesto together that would appeal to both sets of their supporters and result in them getting transfers where they could pick up tail-end seats. The cobbling together idea would cost both seats.

Well, Ryan has consistently and repeatedly lied about renewables giving us cheap energy and not one member of the media has called him on it yet.

Agreed. And in my mind, Ryan is a joke of a politician. I really hope his political ‘career’ is shredded come the next election.

Fingers X’d

Do you have a link to this interview?

And you have consistently blamed renewables for high energy prices when it's the high cost of Gas and oil that was solely responsible for the energy price increases we all saw in the past 2 years

You don't believe me??? Lol. I live here. I know nothing has been done. No Part 8 planning. No plans. Literally nothing. We still have the single P&R in Cork that was opened about 20 years ago. A further one was announced in 2006 but surprise surprise it never happened. Maybe you think that's ok, but 17 years and counting for a P&R is a tad on the long side don't you think? So all these long dated plans are just fantasy. Transport 21 launched in 2005 proposed multiple Metro lines, DART Underground, 7+ Luas lines.......we're still waiting.

Renewables not being able to bring down the high cost of gas is not the fault of renewables,

If anything without renewables gas prices would have been much higher