"Green" policies are destroying this country

Wonder what the real unemployment rate of native Dubliners who can trace their ancestry back 4 or 5 generations is,

€950 for labour to put down some attic insulation in a standard house!! Sorry but that's just ridiculous.

In that case I`m sure you can tell me exactly how much revenue from this tax was collected for the years 2010 t0 2020 and exactly where it was spent.

Ring fencing tax revenue from any source would not introduce any extra overheads or costs. Revenue have always recorded the taxes collected from any number of sources be that income tax, V.A.T. corporation tax etc. Carbon tax revenue would be no different. Simple matter to then record where and on what it is spent on.

If I was interested in your views on new petrol or diesel cars I would have asked. I didn`t and I`m not.

I asked you a simple question on a number of occasions that you have attempted to avoid answering by waffling.

Do you believe that this figure of 1 million electric cars on Irish road by 2030 is a reality or a fantasy

A little radon does no harm. A lot of houses with no randon barriers have basically insignificant level. Even if a house has dangerous levels, the risk is more like smoking than say abebsos. Everyone benefits from good ventilation. Many don't benefit from retrofit radon barriers.

So many of you are mean to Eamon Ryan that I can’t see him giving you handy council roles without competition

You beat me to it namloc😁. My house was built in 2004-05 so I'm facing exactly what you laid out in your post, but I think it will actually be more expensive as the heat pumps only work with an air tight house. Add in the two EVs my wife and I will need to commute as well......

Isn't it good that the plan is to have these works done by 8 years time. The government isn't expecting everyone to suddenly drop everything, change their cars and rebuild their houses overnight, They are asking us to have the majority of it done by 2030

If you and the other cranks on here had their way, we'd do absolutely nothing for the next 8 years and then we'd be in a much worse position, needing drastic cuts with no lead in time.

It would have been much better if the building regulations had been better in 2004 when your house was built, but then people like you were arguing against that at the time too for some ridiculous reason or another.

People are using the cycle lanes all the time, the numbers of cyclists in Dublin is going up.

Now I complain about the lycra brigade as much as anyone who think they own the road, and are a danger to themselves, other cyclists and pedestrians, but they are now becoming a small minority of cyclists as more and more ordinary people in Dublin are cycling in greater numbers. Even my local school has had to put in extra cycle parking as more kids are cycling to school.

I'm a "crank" now am I?? For not wanting to be saddled with tens of thousands of euro of debt? I never argued against any building requirements at the time either. You argument is tosh.

It depends on a lot of factors, and is impossible to know. How fast can the carmakers upscale production? Will demand increase as price of petrol goes up every year? Will the policy stay in place for that time? Will hydrogen cars offer an alternative?

I think it is an extremely stretched target, but if we don't make it, we will need other mitigating measures. That could be putting the price of petrol so high that it discourages travel to the extent that it doesn't matter that we miss the target of electric vehicles because people are not using their old cars.

Eirgrid have released their plan which involves advancing offshore wind generation in the irish sea along with improvements to the transmission network and the interconnectors that we need with Europe and the UK

There are competent agencies who have a responsibility to ensure our grid will cope, you don't need to keep asking this question over and over again.