"Green" policies are destroying this country

Excellent post.

No Sinn Fein are not changing it to anything, still carbon tax, still the same increases etc

Who was it that said SF will continue in the same trajectory

That was 15 years ago and during those 15 years the Green party was in government for 5 years? if it was only Green Party why not remove it during the years when the Green Party wasn't in government?

Why haven't the likes of Sinn Fein come out and say they will remove it?

No they said they would pause the carbon tax, not remove it. A mistake made by a lot of the Sinn Fein supporters.

From their alternative budget. Plenty more information available to confirm they won't get rid of carbon tax

For someone who is pushing Sinn Fein you don't seem to know a lot about their policies.

We would scrap the planned increase in the carbon tax this October, at a cost of €13 million in 2023. The government plan to increase the carbon tax on motor fuels on 11th October, a move that would further hike already increasing petrol and diesel prices. This hike must not proceed. 

My case may be anecdotal but it is real. Commutes around the M50 without a car are infeasible. If I have to get into the city centre for a meeting I have public transport options and I use them. The "demand management" side of the Greens' plan for 2030 is already working nicely -- the road space for cars driving into the city centre is smaller than a country boreen in lots of places. Yet another reason why I will vote to boot them out, but I can't say their cunning plan isn't being implemented. They'll have to squeeze the pips a lot harder before I give up my car or even switch to an EV.

You can pause the I`m "pushing Sinn Fein". I have made my views on Sinn Fein clear on this and other threads, but feel free to go through all my posts of the last 10 years and show me otherwise.

Sinn Fein`s Climate Justice and a Just Transition. Page 3.

The Green Party also wants a market approach to climate action, believing that the manipulating of market signals via taxation will lead to deep structural and bebavioural changes.This is a deeply regressive approach in terms of social cohesion, but that is the bent of its current leaders that it is treated as unquestioned doctrine a "common sense" that is common only to those who believe that bailing bankers and imposing austerity was fair and balanced and reasonable.

Yeah, Sinn Fein clearly following the Irish green party trajectory 🤐

I have never cast a vote for Sinn Fein, and I don`t see why you are having a go at me on posting. It`s your own poorly informed posts on Sinn Fein and insistence of keeping it up with your notion that they are "following the Irish Green Party trajectory" that is making you look foolish, not me.

I have criticed the Irish Green Party where I believe they deserved it. Their clear contempt for rural communities and wish to kill off agriculture and knock a major hole in our economy. Ryan`s lunatic proposal on populations of 499 being legally allowed to sell and gift turf where it would be illegal for communities of 501 to do so. Their culling of Irish cattle, their bull on LNG where they were attempting to introduce legislation to ban all LNG where now they have done a complete about face, and they and their supporters apparent ability to do the most basic mathematics on energy generation. Even providing verifiable figures to show the proposed madness and I pointed out a year ago where wind energy prices were going only to be told by all the green know-alls here it was going to go down. If that is poorly informed posting and it offends your sensibilities then you have a problem with reality as opposed to wishful thinking.

Can't they build it into the dyke we'll need across Dublin bay to stem the incoming flood waters?

Nope. Not all those are tied together. Just because a party is in favour of a lot of that (wrongly) doesn't mean they have to do all that to make changes in other areas.

Besides, I posted it to show that an election can change policy. There's no guarantee that a) any of that would be done, or even a watered down version and b) that the party will actually lead a new coalition

A farmers party would be a bad idea. There's already a group called the Farmers Alliance who are nothing short of headbangers, completely out of touch with reality. Though they make some good points, they make them in stupid ways and bring in conspiracy theories and all sorts. Crazy loons!

A proper rural party though who cover all aspects of rural life, including agri, may do well. They'd be the ying to the green yang and could command a similar number of seats in rural areas as the greens do in urban areas. That of course would dilute the vote of the existing major parties and SF would hoover up I suspect in these constituencies.

...this kind of thinking is in the post for ireland to, so we better get ready for it....

16 seems very low; particularly seeing as many schools have several hundred students. Surely the objective should be to fill whatever space there is and maximise the generation and export.