RTE 1: 'Today' with Claire Byrne

HeidiHeidi

All I can say is good luck to yer man with his 5% rent reduction per year idea!

The agent rep fella was being fairly disingenuous alright.

Who was the Rory guy? (missed the beginning of it)

Dempo1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118111705#Comment_118111705

Not sure , I came in during the conversation and yes, 5% wishful thinking

Dempo1

Screaming match incoming , Matt Carty V Green Senator, Pauline O Reilly, re climate action plan 🙄

Brendan Bendar

Correctly predicted Dee, go for the hat trick!!

Mac-Chops

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118111705#Comment_118111705

Rory Hearne, Assistant Professor Social Policy in Maynooth.

Very vocal on the housing crisis and speaks a lot of sense.

https://twitter.com/RoryHearne?s=20

Other lad, Pat, basically just reinforced the mockery of the exact topic they were on to discuss.

Good loser

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118113957#Comment_118113957

I never regarded him as a speaker of sense.

I remember him going on enthusiastically about Syriza in Greece being the dawn of a new era. The same about Podemos in Spain. Both damp squibs.

Good loser

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118111633#Comment_118111633

Climate change will always be in the news from now on.

She said she was an unpaid volunteer who thought the idea of a nuclear pant made sense (as it absolutely does). She suggested the two pieces of legislation which prohibited the building of such a plant should be repealed. So that the possibility of a plant being built could be considered on it's merits. Apparently it would be 2037 at the earliest.

I thought she wiped the floor with him - she would put many journalists to shame.

elperello

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118116033#Comment_118116033

I guess you may be right about climate change being high on the agenda from now on.

Whether SC is paid or not is irrelevant, she is an enthusiastic supporter of nuclear energy and as I said a good one.

As you say the run in would be a long one if we decided to build a nuclear plant.

I am in the opposite camp to you in that I don't think we should build one.

Funnily enough when listening to radio/tv debates it is not unusual to think the side you support did better than they really did.

I may be guilty of that phenomenon myself but while it was not OC's finest hour I don't think it was as one sided as you do.

serfboard

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118118444#Comment_118118444

I'm another who doesn't agree with nuclear power plants being built here (or even being investigated), but I thought that Oisin Coughlan did not have a great outing in the debate. The other person was far more agressive and far more clued-in to her talking points.

Oisin, IMO, didn't seem to be aware of current developments in renewable energy, and because of this, probably wasn't the best person to be taking the opposing side. He didn't really seem to be able to cope with a tougher style of debate either. I wouldn't agree that she wiped the floor with him, but he'd want to up his game if there's a rematch!

elperello

This is a link to her organisation.

They say they are all volunteers and there is no statement about funding.

One of the problems that environmental ngo's face trying to provide spokespersons to radio/tv shows is that it is hard to cover all areas of environmental concern.

Oisin is a good all rounder but he came up against a specialist.

Furze99

Lorna Siggins rehashing all the stuff known about the helicopter crash. Cut to the chase and give us the actual issues concerning the crash.

Good loser

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118119834#Comment_118119834

It went on for about 17 mins.

Sarah Cullen was razor sharp in her focus on the net point(s). Throughout she zeroed back to the essence - while he went all around the house - ineffectively. She was a new name to me.

elperello

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118134010#Comment_118134010

Apologies, in a reply to your earlier post I left out the link to Sarah Cullen's organisation.

https://www.18for0.ie/team

padd b1975

Jesus that accent.

Gaybo must be spinning.

SpitfireIV

Oh my gaaaaawwwdddd, actually loike...

padd b1975

Here's Ferriter again.

Book in the pipeline?

Brendan Bendar

Walked down from UCD?

dulpit

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118135694#Comment_118135694

He was on The Stand, he has a book about the civil war coming out. But he's a handy guest for anything irish history, he's a good listen.

HeidiHeidi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118139542#Comment_118139542

I like him, think he's wildly interesting and a great communicator - but I just cannot listen to all that history told in the present tense. Once I'd noticed it, I couldn't unhear it, and now I can't listen to him at all.

Dempo1

Baffling this whole debate re compliance checks, ERSI saying one thing, HSE saying another, HSA saying inspections being done , RAI suggesting none or very little being done.

Just Bizzare

Furze99

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118140080#Comment_118140080

Ask the dogs in the street, what do we think??

Brendan Bendar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118140018#Comment_118140018

Best decision you made in 2021, shaft.

ednwireland

garbage from these retrofit people. I know someone retrofitting a late 70s house and was quoted 90000. from a one stop shop. Grant's off that would be 20000, max Grant's is 35k but the place told him absolutely no way anyone gets near that.

complete spin as usual

oh and heat pumps are expensive electric heating. the guy said your Bill's disappear when you replace your oil boiler with a heat pump. well that's garbage as well.

Losty Dublin

Yeah, they are shocking shocking expensive to do as fully as that. If you are on a budget or retired or on a more modest wage, even some of the basic improvements such as a new door or a newer boiler can be hard to cover. Grants are fine but you need to cover the entire cost first up before the SEAI grant pays out.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118145503#Comment_118145503

ednwireland

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118145730#Comment_118145730

I'm getting a gable wall re plastered as its stone with render and therefore damp. it's taken me 2.5 years to get a lime mortar specialist and it's going to cost 5k

sofits and facials on my other house is 2k

building costs are totally through the roof for anything. but anything to do with the seai is crazy unaffordable.

ShamNNspace

From my own experience with grants in this country, the cost allmost allways rises in direct proportion to the value of the grant available rendering the whole thing of little value to the consumer and actually turns into a bit of a money racket for the fitters and builders, I don't bother with them anymore as imv they're bad Vfm

MBE220d

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118145503#Comment_118145503

Heard that nonsense also and how people with oil boilers have to fill up 2 or 3 times a year, now speaking for myself and most people I know that lives in the country get 1 fill at most and burn turf and timber to keep the costs down.

Looks better for them with 3 fills to justify pushing retrofitting, but of course, the. are never pulled up on these types of statements

ednwireland

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118146203#Comment_118146203

we used to be in the 2.5 when we switched to a new condensing kerosene oil boiler(yes our oil usage went up with switch to a condensing oil boiler and kersone). we've reinsulated upstairs now and reduced it to about 1.25 to 1.5 fills a year.

elperello

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118146203#Comment_118146203

In my experience you are correct about rural dwellers being able to reduce dependence on oil heating by burning turf or timber.

However as people get older solid fuel becomes more of a physical effort and they tend to rely more on oil.

MBE220d

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118147823#Comment_118147823

I know but they still love the turf and timber even if they have to buy it, with me its a case of oil in the morning for a while and the same when I come home in the evening, stove then on for the night which has a back boiler that heats the rads.