FF/FG/Green Government - Part 3

No. The Problem is there is never a right time. And the issue is that anytime a reform is proposed the populist demagogues jump on it with the exact same excuses. Wrong time. Ireland only small. Targets the peeple. Targets Rural. etc etc etc. The problem with delay is that they will always find a new reason "just recovering from the war, wrong time".

I thought he was a FG supporter by the way he defends them.

I have no problem with public transport, but in rural Ireland it is practically non-existent, and the greens aren`t falling all over themselves doing anything about changing that. Something which is not going to do much for getting cars off the roads.Even the Dublin city public transport latest plan from Ryan, to me at least, looks underwhelming.

We are looking for the E.U. to give us a derogation on VAT on fuel while we could do the same with carbon taxes ourselves. Which even aside from who is benefiting from these carbon taxes, just looks like running around in a circle for no good reason.

Banning turf burning, considering the relatively small quantities we burn, is nothing other than green ideology with the red herring excuse it`s because we have not got clean air, when we are one of the highest rated countries in the world for clean air.

Sustainable development is one of those buzz words thrown around nowadays that neither the person uttering or the person hearing knows what it is. Putting all your eggs in the wind and solar basket as, the Irish greens are determined to do, where both have shown they are unreliable I would not see as qualifying as sustainable development.

I'm slightly Biased as I use Turf but properly Dried out ( I use turf dried out for a year, usually) it's incredibly efficient and is not as smokey as the Greens would have us believe. Of course its not ideal. There's also this false narrative that people burn wet or damp turf, it's nonsense, not only would it not burn, your home would be a smokey mess. Dry turf, once it reaches temperature releases very little smoke. I also here mention of it being a cheap fuel source, it most certainly is not if like me you have to purchase from a local small bog. A tractor trailer load now costing up to €400.

Your suggestion about 100% cost of retrofit an excellent idea.

The 1300 deaths attributed to Turf burning is a nonsense given government can't even determine how many people actually burn Turf. Perhaps that figure is including coal, oil, gas & Car emissions 🤔

Guess the turf thing is causing problems for the government.

A vote winner for Greens but disaster for FG/FF. Could the Greens really be secret SFers? :)

Regards...jmcc

Eamonn itching to walk.

Surprised that no FGer has told him to get on his bike and feck off. :) It would save the Greens from any of the fallout of Varadkar possibly being charged and prosecuted. A Summer GE might be nice for campaigning.

Regards...jmcc

Well said 👏

" Good to see the government parties discussing proposals...."😅😅😅

From that Indo link posted by jmcc it was more Ryan getting an arse kicking from both FG & FF parliamentary members than a discussion with him being told to go and sort out a problem of his own making and his daft 500 or less communities idea was not going to cut it with either. group.