"Green" policies are destroying this country

How will an interest bearing loan take the sting out of it? That's pretty much the definition of a sting. 😂

I've already said that there needs to be serious incentives and monetary supports to get people to buy into this, not just expecting people to take out debt to pay for it. Tax incentives and EU funding sound great but I'll reserve judgment until they become a reality and actually provide serious support and incentive.

Or not at all. Large numbers of people won't be queueing up to throw savings or taking out loans for heat pumps and all that comes with them. Won't happen. Government are deluded if they think this will happen.

Have the Green Party trained you in how to respond to every post but never actually answer what your asked.

So I'll ask again, what are the people of Dublin going to do about all these major transport cancellations and delays, you know the ones that were to take cars off the streets and make it a more eco-friendly city.

Are ye just going to take it lying down, because I not hearing of any Politician coming under pressure, what about Mr Ryan swanning around Glascow saving the planet, he the Minister for Transport in case you didn't know, then again he's not to bothered because the same fools vote for him every time, and he knows it.

In case people haven't seen it SEAI grants for fabric upgrades only apply to pre 2006 houses and for renewable upgrades only pre 2011 so not exactly a massive government push to get houses upgraded and save the planet kinda thing nevermind the disaster SEAI are to deal with.

In fairness heat pumps are covered by renewable criteria but they include this lovely papargraph:

Before you apply

To qualify for a heat pump system grant your home must be well insulated and have low heat loss. This is to ensure your heat pump system performs well and your electricity bills are not too high. That is why we require a technical assessment to be carried out first.

Most rural houses only use oil as back up, stove or range will be the main heating source, It's still cheaper than it was in 2009,

1,000 litres of oil is similar or even cheaper today that it was a decade ago. Don't think too many people are going to be panic buying heat pumps just yet.

You mean you don't want to take on a huge personal loan for a heat pump that'll be useless for your house??? Disgraceful 😉

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Rural buses are very expensive, it’s cheaper to drive and park in my nearest city. No brainer anyway as I’d have to drive and park by the roadside in order to get my nearest bus.

No one said that heat pumps won't work in houses built in the 70's or 80's, of course they will, I can put one in my shed outside and it will work, but will it be economical to run, not likely unless you spend up to 100k on a retrofit.

They won't work as designed or economically without serious retrofitting works to houses such as air tightness, wall wrap insulation, new windows and doors etc. That's the whole point here - people need to spend enormous amounts of money to retrofit these in. Your Guide to Heat Pumps in Ireland | Bord Gáis Energy (bordgaisenergy.ie):

We have to more than double our electricity supply in the next ten years (if the govts EV target of 1mil vehicles is to be believed), meanwhile we are removing out baseload generation and relying almost totally on the variable output from wind and solar. Even the idea that we could double our supply of peak wind and solar by 2030 is nonsense, when you factor in that they arent often outputting at their peak it means we will have significant energy shortfalls for the coming several decades.

Unless we can more than double our electricity generation and install a massive amount of grid scale battery storage, we will be seeing energy shortages by 2030