Eamon Ryan resigns before the General Election.

The only reason the greens are in government is their ability to compromise, they've been able to effectively see off internal heaves at the same time.

What you're really arguing is that they are too effective at getting their manifesto implemented as a junior partner whil also being a stable partner, and you happen to disagree with that manifesto.

Have you ever paid attention to the other wings of the Green Party? Some of them would close down every filling station in the country and ground the planes if they had their way. Bad and all as Ryan may seem to you, there are people in his party who are far more radical than he is.

he is one of the greatest advocates of the continued Dublin airport passenger cap.

Yet he’s also one of the greatest active advocates of immigration into this country. Has championed it, advocated for it and defended and excused it at every opportunity. Yet more people = more severe damage and degradation to our environment…..😏

So the individual is literally talking out of both sides of that mouth of his…..grim.

He won’t resign, he should alright but worse might follow…

If how you imagine economics works is by corporations walking away from guaranteed profit you might want to think again.

How about keeping the cap to grow employment in Cork and Shannon.

Oh no can't do that because the snowflakes on Dublin can't take the horrible inhumanity of having to cross country to an airport.

But why use the Healy-rays as the alternative? I’m glad the greens are being annihilated but that certainly does NOT mean I would prefer ‘a truckload of HR’s’

And also prepared to fly 14 hours just to cast a vote?

He's the Minister for Transport and leader of the Green Party. You would think he"d be an advocate for sustainable public transporr. Yet the States flagship project - Dublin Metro hasnt progressed under his tenure. In fact its been scaled back from Swords to Sandyford to Swords to the city centre. Furthermore, they're not even planning further routes - so it looks liike Ryan has abandoned the States plans for a proper underground network. As for the other originally planned projects like Dart connects etc - they are now pipedreams which are less likely to be delivered than when Ryan came to power.

The tourism and sport parts of his Department were removed to allow him less responsibities to concentrate on the public transport projects. With a financial surplus, there are no excuses for a lack of progress.

Judge people by what they do or deliver, not what they say.

He's done loads for public transport.

The backlog in ABP is what's slowing things down.

ABP are not responsible for the halving of the length of the metro or the shelving of further metro or rail projects.

lng is hugely expensive so of course they are staying away from it, rightly so.

as for SMRS, ireland has better things to spend money on then investing money in an experimental technology that hasn't been developed successfully to a commercially viable level.

SMRS which can operate at a commercially viable level successfully have been just around the corner for years if not decades and yet they are no further along now then they were.

our energy policy is correct, use foscel fuels while we can and use the cheap ones, with a move to renewables and other sustainable technologies.

the only wrong thing was stopping the pete milling which means now we import and road haul hundreds of thousands of tunnes of the stuff shipped from germany whereas before we rail hauled it from the bogs to the power stations, done for the right reasons in that we have to rewet bogs but was unviable to be implemented at this time.

but yes, absolutely correct to stay away from the likes of LNG and indiginous nuclear especially SMR.

The next decade will be transformative in terms of our energy.

Solar is really only taking off now and offshore wind is just about too. EVs are about to become affordable soon also.

Storage will be the next problem to solve but so much research being done in this area, the hope is that in 10 years we can store a decent amount.

I think our electricity production could easily be net zero in 20 years time with the interconnectors.

The Greens have the advantage of not "really" being a party, rather a movement. They could lose every councillor and TD but come back in 10 years, as their base goes nowhere.

SD and Labour (who were absolutely stupid in 2011) know that a wipeout, like that, ends them. There is no coming back

If you listen to what SHE ACTUALLY said, she completely refused to talk about collapsing the government or walking away. The extent of what she said was that a low % on emissions reduction, less than half the % that was previously agreed was 'not acceptable'. That's what she said.

JFC, are people too busy trying to stir up attacks that they won't actually listen to a two minute clip and stick to the facts?

Yes, I did listen to it - what she said was 'all options are on the table' and she explicitly declined (not avoided) to answer about withdrawing from government, stating that 'that wouldn't be helpful'.

She didn't say what you're attacking her for saying.

Have you not got enough things that she actually did say that you can attack her for?

It's absolutely a lot more than semantics. It's a pile on based on deliberate misinterpretation.

The worst you can say about her is that she didn't rule out leaving government, but absolutely didn't do and didn't say what you attributed to her. She didn't threaten to leave government, that's a fact. Your allegation was about her taking a hissy fit or similar, when in fact, she did the exact opposite.

The fact that you have to make up stuff to complain about rather than sticking to actual policy facts says a lot.

Because forcing Dubliners to drive (or cycle) to Cork or Shannon Airports (or Knock or Kerry) to catch an aeroplane will, in some strange way that only a genuine, fifth generation, half wit could understand, help to save the planet?

But it might stop some Cork and Limerick people having to drive to Dublin.

At the end of the day, she never had a snowball's of getting a seat in MNW, unless there was a huge green wave, like 2019. She did her duty for the party, made sure the Green brand was up there., brought in a few transfers for vaguely like minded candidates. You seem to be the only person surprised by her missing out on a seat.