Eamon Ryan resigns before the General Election.

It was gone years before that. Accounts were being set up with slanderous usernames solely so they'd appear on the banlist.

Well, why not start with the introduction of the DRS? I know, not a tax, but still an extra cost on the people of Ireland that needs to be factored in, especially when we have perfectly good waste collection services, including recycling and composting services, that still cannot be gotten rid of, and now, those waste collection services are looking to increase their rates due to the loss of income caused by the DRS.

Also how about the return of the Duties and Levies on fuels coming into the country to full rate at Green party insistence despite their coalition partners saying the cuts would stay in place as long as the cost of living crisis continued.....guess what....that particular crisis is still ongoing.

Also, While I know that the carbon tax was introduced by the FF/GP government in 2010, it has increased more in the last 4 years than the previous 11 years, again despite the cost of living crisis.

Thanks to these increases, I know families that are collecting scraps of wood from the roads if they pass them, or asking the grandparents or neighbours can they use their waste collection and splitting the bill. I came across a guy the other evening basically "dumpster diving" for anything he could use, Cans/bottles with DRS icons on them so he could claim the deposit, ice-cream sticks for tinder, newspapers so that he could make paper-mache firelogs from, while other are leaving their household rubbish next to public bins, which will lead to the removal of those public bins eventualy to the detriment of all.

Your point being?

Eamon Ryan, as Minister for the Enviroment has it in his power to at least suspend any increases in the likes of carbon tax, for example, to help alleviate the pressure on people and instead has left it more than double under his tenure. That is just one example.

Fair enough, maybe introduced was the wrong term, but the Green Party certainly has done nothing to help alleviate the pressure on people, and if anything has increased that pressure.

And that is why the Green Party lost out so badly in the local elections, and if the Green Party think just changing the face at the helm will turn their fortunes around, they must think the people of Ireland have short memories.

So you have answered the green party have introduced no taxes.

Eamon Ryan can't suspend without government approval. Same as he can't increase.

The Green Party are not in control of the Depart of Finance.

The Green Party lost out in the local election because of the amount of misinformation been spread arund about them by people online claiming to know what they are talking about and gullible people listening to them

Just look at any of these threads and the amount of nonsense posted is amazing, we had someone claim yesterday that Eamon Ryan closed the bogs, when that decision was made in 2018

We also had months of saying Eamon Ryan closed two ESB plants, again made by previous government

The turf ban? well that wasput in process by the last government and was due to be implemented before the last election but FF and FG ran out of time and pushed it out for the next government to implement. Not a whisper about it in 2018/19 when this was going on. Soon as Eamon Ryan department went to carry out the actual plan, uproar.

You need to do some fact checking

But they are not a minor party, are they? For example, It was at GP insistance that the duties and levies on fuels coming into the country was raised back to the original rates, despite assurances from the other 2 coalition partners that they would remain as long as the cost of living crisis remained. Smaller does not equal minor.

Every cent on these levies and taxes are coming from the pockets of the electorate and they are tired of it.

The DRS is still an extra cost on people's pockets introduced by the Green Party especially when there is a perfectly good system of waste collection already in place.

And I know very well how Government works......just look at today's announcments....plain to see the attempt to buy the next election has started!

But it's not cost neutral is it? People's time has a cost. The fact that it rejects things has a cost. The wasted petrol driving around looking for one that actually works has a financial, time and environmental cost. The bin companies putting their prices up because of lost revenue from the cans is a cost.

As far as the person who was previously doing everything just right recycling at home is concerned, this is a steaming pile of dog ****. Let's not even attempt to defend the indefensible

Yes it is that difficult. We had a system that worked perfectly well and now we have this shite. This is expense, wasted time and hassle, and what do you mean about "why would you drive around looking for one" - a lot of the time the bloody things are full or out of order ao what choice do you have? Keep the stinking leaking bag of them in your boot till next time the shop you go to regularly has a working machine.

It is in this thread because people don't understand how the government works, they think Eamon Ryan was a dictator and was implementing all of this on his own and even magically stuff that was done before he was even elected

Whatever way you want to put it, it is an attempt at buying the election even breaking their own rule of 5% expenditure.

As to it be cost neutral. Now lets see.

The old system was when I finished with my container, rinse it, crush it and put it in my recycling bin, and it gets picked up on bin collection day.

The DRS system is finish with the container, rinse it, find someplace safe to keep it so it does not get damaged until I next go shopping, go shopping and find the machine is full, out of order or not working, find second one or even a 3rd one if neccessary, and the machine then crushes it.

The biggest problem is by having to keep the containers undamaged, is finding a place to store them. Next biggest problem is finding a working DRS machine in a shop that I do my shopping at, so that I can redeem the voucher I am getting from the machine. After all there is no point using the machine in Tesco if I do my shopping in Aldi's.

So good you said it twice

Imaginary stories don't really work with me, the number of bottles been recycled would suggest these stories are, well stories.