"Green" policies are destroying this country

Compo82

Eamon Ryan at it again. Seriously radical nonsense and the government need to put a stop to this. These policies are just increasing costs for everyone trying to get to work and further destroy Dublin City Centre. It will turn into some getto where no one will go to shop. The sooner the Greens are put out on their ear the better.

Revealed: Congestion charges, lower insurance costs for car pooling and phasing out rebate schemes – Government’s new draft transport strategy laid bare | Irish Independent

prunudo

Can't see the insurance companies being on board with that. An industry that is notoriously risk averse, reducing costs when the risk is higher.

corks finest

He's a thundering langer , congestion charges 🙄🙄

His party are blocking progress

( ie Cork - Limerick motorway)

Creating cycle lanes that go nowhere 🙄

Etc etc

So not in tune with the Irish ppl it's staggering,

They're not wanted,a yummy mummy party of woke gowls

JPCN1

They know they’re getting wiped out in a GE so trying to force this sh1t through before they’re held to account.

Town is dead. Eamon just wants to bury it now.

Greens are kryptonite to the tourism and hospitality sector.

Larbre34

I wouldn't be at all concerned at Eamon Ryan's latest anti-car proposals. If they're only going to Cabinet today, there's not a hope there will be legislation in place to enact them by the end of this Dáil.

Certainly, after the wallop the Greens will inevitably take at the local elections, he probably won't even be too keen to advance it himself ahead of a GE.

ginger22

https://www.facebook.com/582661721/videos/368426762786762

charlie14

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121943763#Comment_121943763

Ryan, like others of his ilk within the E.U., was talking when he should have been listening and even now with their NRL in tatters he is still doing it. For the leader of a party that was threatening to collapse the government if they didn`t get their way on the pointless exercise of culling cattle numbers to claim that he stood with farmers protesting across Europe " because the truth is our farmers don`t get paid properly" is laughable. Does he think farmers are protesting all over Europe because they believe all this Green Deal proposed legislation is going to pay them too much.

Belgium have the E.U. rotating presidency until the end of June and as they are going to abstain from voting on this NRL then I would not see Belgium having an appetite for putting much effort into passing this law under their presidency before the E.U. elections in June. After June the presidency moves to Hungary for the next 6 months and Hungary has said it will vote against. Hungary is not like Ireland cowing to every edict that comes from Brussels and have shown they are well able for horse trading. I would have thought the E.U. would have moved on from the "democracy" of the Lisbon Treaty where we had to keep voting until they got the result they wanted, but if anything they appear to have regressed even further and a vote on this NRL will be delayed indefinitely until backroom diplomacy gets the result Ryan and Co. want.

Tenzor07

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121944656#Comment_121944656

The only concerning part in that article is the "Diesel rebates should also be phased out, as well as other subsidies on fossil fuels" which will affect the hauliers delivering goods and to the farmers producing food which will lead to higher prices at the Supermarkets.

The rest will most likely occur even if the Greens aren't in power..

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121945065#Comment_121945065

you're still going to see "anti-car" measures coming through though without any greens, look at dun laoighaire, most who voted in favour of the new scheme weren't green councillors. did you not say that you knew some councillers who said it wouldn't pass, lol?

TheHouseIRL

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121945065#Comment_121945065

You're a bold man to be making political predictions with your track record

roosterman71

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121945579#Comment_121945579

This very thing is what had farmers and hauliers on the streets of Germany not so long ago, and the measures were reversed. Currently you can't run heavy machinery on batteries and removing diesel rebates will drive costs. But sure that's no surprise, hardly anything the greens introduce reduces costs.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121944656#Comment_121944656

A lot of Dublin should be pedestrianised. I was in Liverpool recently and there's a big section around Liverpool One that's all pedestrianised and it was heaving. If done right, it could be a big thing for the city. The key is being able to move people and goods around that area where you can't drive through. This is where it would falter here as the starting point is no vehicles, not how better to move them. Personally, I'd start with pedestrianising a big section around Trinity and Stephens Green. I'd also demolish a lot of what's there and build up towards the clouds with shops, offices and homes.

ToweringPerformance

More Green propaganda now on RTE 1 with that forever doomster Philip Boucher Hayes. More reasons to not pay that licence fee.

opinionated3

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121947358#Comment_121947358

Annoying to listen to Ryan on the last word this evening and mentioning Limerick as a shining example of changing the way the city centre operates. It's been turned into an absolute **** show. Shops closing left right and centre and no replacements in sight. Traffic nightmare due to ridiculous cycle lanes that aren't even used. If Limerick is the future then God help us

PommieBast

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121947553#Comment_121947553

Does anyone under 45 actually have a telly anymore? The only time I ever watch(ed) RTE/BBC is/was in the pub..

ToweringPerformance

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121948004#Comment_121948004

I'm 58 so i don't know 😲

ToweringPerformance

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121947803#Comment_121947803

Dundrum main street the same here in Dublin. Green's had a brainwave to put in a massive cycle lane and make the traffic one way and businesses have died a death.

eightieschewbaccy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121944622#Comment_121944622

Just to note, you're linking to what amounts to a Chinese conspiracy site. Generally seems to get linked to when somebody wants to make outlandish claims.

Blazer

I don't blame the EU for taking a stance on climate control. The fact of that matter is aside from the countries being severely affected ie Africa, parts of Asia etc who are right now experiencing severe climate issues is that the EU is going to be heavily impacted as a result of these disasters. EA is right on their doorstop so they know that migration will significantly increase 100/1000x over the next decade or two.

The only way to combat is to reduce our footprint...this means reducing air travel, reducing food exports, no more importing beef from Argentina etc, no more exporting beef from Ireland across the world. Each country should only produce what they need and that's it.

but its not going to happen. Too many vested interests.

Drastic measures are required but Eamon is too much of a muppet to actually deal with it plus he's thoroughly unlikeable and comes across as a complete spoofer.

Watch as our children and their children hammer the current generations for the state in which we've left the planet.

And believe me..I'm not a green supporter but even I can see the writing is on the wall and the species is facing a massive climate crisis in the next 30 years or so if we continue doing the same ****.

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121948628#Comment_121948628

Eamon is unpopular now, imagine he tried to implement measures that would actually be required to reduce our footprint drastically? It's a lost cause.

You're right about migration, as it gets worse and worse in the poor global south, you would imagine they'll all just migrate north to europe and usa etc. in their millions and billions even. hopefully we're all dead before it gets really bad.

TheHouseIRL

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121948543#Comment_121948543

How many businesses in Dundrum have closed since the implementation of the one way system? None that I've noticed.

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121948700#Comment_121948700

they invent these lies, like people going on about all the businesses being destroyed in fairview because of the works there.

bluedex

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121947553#Comment_121947553

Turned it off straight away. I'm sure I wasn't only one.

L1011

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121948716#Comment_121948716

The Fairview example was one business that was closing down anyway and yet our crap media took it as gospel that it was due to the works

In the UK right now there's similar lies going on about a bridal shop apparently losing some huge amount of their business causing them to move to a town without traffic restrictions.

The owner had said she'd been looking to move to that specific town since before COVID, the traffic restrictions are far far newer.

ToweringPerformance

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121949297#Comment_121949297

I watched it all i must admit out of curiosity. Zero balance, no debating, no questions pure doom porn. I should have known better i just find it utterly disgraceful as RTE is meant to be a public service broadcaster and yet here they are pushing a green agenda from a political party that garnered a tiny 5% of the electorate vote last time out and is set to be decimated at the ballot box next time out.

Clo-Clo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121948700#Comment_121948700

In fact when towns/village shut down traffic in them during covid it was a huge success and got families back into them.

Not much fun trying to bring kids etc to a village/town when the entire thing is full of cars and some think they are driving a race track around it

roosterman71

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121949712#Comment_121949712

Dublin city centre would be the opposite where the scum took over and are still a huge presence. Though I was up in the DAFM yesterday and strolled around that part of the city. I was pleasantly surprised not to encounter too many wasters. Long may it continue.

In not so positive news, a Dublin-Galway bus route is closing due to lack of passengers

https://www.westmeathindependent.ie/2024/03/28/local-aircoach-service-is-ending-due-to-low-demand-says-transport-minister/

Clo-Clo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121949799#Comment_121949799

The stories of "scum took over" are coming from people who are never in Dublin city centre.

Before covid you had dodgy spots, after covid you had dodgy spots. If you listened to people you are not able to walk down the street in daylight anymore in Dublin without been attacked.

roosterman71

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121949843#Comment_121949843

Yeah it was bad before, but is worse now. I've been around the city since Covid (not too often mind) and have noticed more gimps about than previously. Maybe I'm just more aware after all the talk about it in different sources and it just seems to be more around. The dodgy spots seem to be more and more nowadays too.

Clo-Clo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121950032#Comment_121950032

Personally don't think it is worse or better. Still plenty of things to be fixed in city centre but some of the stuff at the moment is certainly over the top

TheHouseIRL

I'd have thought with all the traffic congestion providing passive surveillance that Dublin city centre would be one of the safest places on earth