"Green" policies are destroying this country

we the tax payer maybe? it'll come from the public purse obviously

So increase taxes or cut services for the Irish is the solution then?

Look after is one thing, providing then with more than you provide your own citizens is another imo.

I mean the government are on about building modular homes for them but wouldn't do anything for the housing crisis here then. All seem to be getting free medical cards too and priority for health services. Hard enough to get heath care here for some people due to overloaded GPs and hospital systems and then bring pushed further down the line.

Maybe youve enough to get by but a lot of people don't. I'm pretty much writing off ever owning a home anytime soon the way things are going so I don't like when my taxes are going on things that I can't even provide for myself.

We could just not take as much. Got to protect ourselves over others imo, and when you can't adequately provide for a lot of your own people, you don't spread your resources thinner.

I suspect the numbers being discussed will not happen anyway. I can’t see the government being capable of organising such a task in a short period of time.

you spread your resources thinner when other Europeans are being shelled by an invading force so you can help them, count yourself lucky you live here even with further stretched resources you'll still be far better off than most of the planet

ok well thankfully those in power are extending a more charitable hand so we'll see what happens

The bucket view of climate change is what annoys most people. The EU is perfect at that and we have caught up here.

stopping peat harvesting and and peat burning together with briquettes but yet import peat and its by products FROM OTHER EU COUNTRIES! Pippa Hackett green td says in response “we can’t stop the import of products from other EU countries!”

Promote pellet stoves and wood burning in general even though they emit very harmful air pollution particles.

reduce sources of carbon like coal but give Russia 700 million a day in gas payments even though Russian gas production has a massive emission of methane in its production which is way more damaging to the environment. We now see how the money has been used.

get rid of a perfectly good combustion car to drive an electric which will take you eight years of driving to negate the carbon footprint of the car production. Instead of understanding how transport for the future should look we try to recreate the massively damaged single person journey model just using electric cars. Look up nickel mining ground water damage in Indonesia.

allow data centres to increase like mushrooms knowing we have a short term challenging power production landscape.one data centre can use the same power as kilkenny and we domestic users subsidise their power consumption cost - don’t recall being consulted on this. Data centres use 13% of the total soon to get up to 30%

not understanding the current limitations in our existing national grid and instead strategically use wind in conjunction with hydroelectric solutions. Until we figure out how to store excess wind capacity or have smart interconnectors. Smart metering still limits private supply to the grid at 30% of their produced electricity- why? Looking after vested interests.

the EU signs a beef supply deal with Brazil which encourages more deforestation even though Brazil has none of the traceability standards mandatory for EU farmers. Deal is done largely to sell German luxury cars and health care equipment in return.

all of this means we are likely to see zero carbon reduction in Ireland in 2022 even though most people are probably still curtailing a lot of the previous standard carbon based travel.

we import huge mountains of plastic goods from China knowing they have fake supporting manufacturing certification required by EPA regulations and with fake safety standards.

China in turn poured more concrete in four year between 2010-2020 than the US did in the whole 20th century. We in turn see US and Eu factory space lying idle with millions of jobs lost. Outcome massive growing pollution from China and geo political sabre rattling combined with masses of human rights abuses.

the list is probably endless but this is why people who want to see real action on climate change which requires a global circular view get annoyed green policies which in terms of impact are largely virtue signalling vanity stuff.

Mountebanks like Duncan Stewart and Eamon Ryan should be cancelled.

With the price of fuel going crazy, surely even the anti anything Green brigade realise we need to reduce our dependence on cars? We should be enabling ways of people getting to work and school by other means as much as we can. I know this isn't possible for rural Ireland but it should certainly be encouraged in urban areas. I haven't seen anyone from the government suggesting we try to use less fuel at all, or a suggestion we turn the heating down a bit.

If you can't be comfortable in your own home what's the point in living?