"Green" policies are destroying this country

There is no risk of food shortages in Ireland due to green policies, there is a risk of food shortages globally due to climate change, but even still, Ireland has much greater purchasing power than the developing world so we'll be fine

There has never been a single power cut due to renewable energy in Ireland and there not a significant risk of one happening any time soon, however, there was a power cut yesterday in Limerick due to poorly maintained Electricity infrastructure. We need huge investment in our grid, and doing this is also a requirement to move to renewable energy

Wind power generation in Ireland is curtailed by our grid being not fit for purpose. If you genuinely are worried about power cuts, you should be demanding investment in modernising the grid, building the interconnectors and updating the grid services to modern systems suitable for a distributed supply and storage.

So you are basically advocating for Ireland, a country that has effectively zero risk of food shortages adding to the risks of famine in developing countries through not playing our part in emissions reduction.

Again incorrect. It was you who mentioned animal rights in reference to hundreds of thousand of live calves being exported to Libya and Kazakhstan. Last year we exported 246,877 of live cattle, of which just over 50% were calves. Of that 246,887 exports to Libya were 6487 (2.6%) and Kazakhstan 500 (0.2%).

What I do have a problem with is Irish greens and the E.U. supposedly being concerned with global emissions and imposing regulations on how our cattle are reared due to public health concerns engaging in "don`t look over there" when it comes to comparisons.

The E.U. imports the equivalent of 40% of what we export to the E.U. from Brazil but both the E.U. and Irish greens have no problem with an area the size of Wales being annually burned to fed these cattle, them having the same methane emissions as Irish cattle and then being shipped half way around the world. When it comes to food safety and public health concerns we have one of the strictest veterinary controls in the world where each animal is traceable to the farm it was raised on showing a full list of any medication administered in it`s lifetime. Brazil, no such standards, where even cattle are moved from areas where foot and mouth disease are prevalent to areas which are supposedly clear before slaughter to mask where the actually were reared.

Similar to China`s emissions, it is nothing but gross hypocrisy by greens in the pursuit of an ideology with neither sense nor foresight.

Well that's for NL and Belgium to worry about I suppose. And the Norway issue has already been resolved. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/norwegian-oil-gas-workers-start-strike-cutting-output-2022-07-04/

See you can negotiate with striking workers, but you cannot negotiate with climate change. The physical damage we are doing now is irreversible and we are locking in negative consequences that our children will still have to suffer long past our lifetime

You`re worried as a green supporter about the welfare of our live exports, that you believe are raised by intensive farming, (their not), where 96.8% of those cattle go to other European cattle, yet you have no problem with China supplying Europe with green tech produced using slave labour and coal as an energy source, or Europe importing the equivalent of 40% of the beef we supply while burning down the Amazon to do so, then shipping that beef that has either no traceability or often very dodgy veterinary verification half way around the world.

As a green supporter a very incongruous mindset that unfortunately is not unique to you, but good to know all the same.

One of the biggest problems with climate change is the 'Free Rider' problem. We need to reduce our own emissions so that we are carbon neutral, but we also need to ensure that our supply chain is not full of imports from countries with a high per capita emissions rate than the EU

This requires trade policies and the EU can do this on the basis that the EU are world leaders on standards. Ireland will be held responsible for reducing our CO2 emissions in line with our commitments. This is why we to do more now so we're not faced with cliff edge emissions cuts as deadlines loom

We are buying green tech from China that is produced primarily by coal burning plants. A policy where China is building more coal burning plants to fulfill the demand. We are importing beef from Brazil where an area the size of Wales is annually burned to raise this beef before it is then shipped half way around the world.

It`s two cheeks of the same arse, so where is the difference in the supposed E.U. and green policy on global climate ?

Whereas green policy is that we should flush our economy, including our agriculture sector, down the toilet as an example to others who are the largest planet polluters and who like Japan have shown that when it comes to driving their economies by means cheap energy sources could care less if they tried.

When it comes to climate change we may all be in this together. When it comes to doing something about it, demonstrably not so. It`s looking increasingly where we are concerned, more a case of the road to hell being littered with good intentions.

Is sense prevailing at last?

Its not about what I believe, the plan you linked to doesn't mention Ireland at all

It will in your eye. It would provide a few temporary jobs but would do sweetfa for our agricultural sector, our exports or the cost of living

What would possibly help both is a scrapping of the green back marginal pricing policy if renewable energy supply is as cheap, (as we have certainly seen no proof of it) as we are being lead to believe

I think he is 🤦‍♂️

I sent Rte news an email earlier asking them that exact question.

“Is there a reason (other than you have been ordered not to by your agenda led reporting) why nowhere on your website or main RTE news is it reported that Dutch farmers protesting despicable 30% slaughter of their livestock were shot at by their own police force earlier today ? 

How can RTE possibly be considered an honest and unbiased broadcasting organisation? “

Is there any one that can produce the volume, quality and at such low emission as European agriculture.

That is mostly down to soil quality and climate.

In most of Asia and Africa, above Uganda, crops only yield and grow with incredible use and abuse of Fertilizer. At rates that a European farmer couldn't even imagine. Th