Inflation

At the start of 2021, and up until April 2021, the headline Energia rate was 19.38 cent.

It will soon be 44.44 cent.

In 18 months, there has been a 129% increase in the unit rate.

Okay, in my contract, for first 12 months, I was getting 41% off during 2021, now 40% off.

On what basis do you need people to live in rural locations, outside of towns and villages? Our ribbon development and once-off housing is unsustainable living.

As we currently have not got enough houses to house people or maybe you missed the whole housing crisis that has been here for the guts of 5 years or so. So what does anyone living in a rural setting do? Do they all buy tents and move to Dublin? Maybe they should walk to Dublin as well ye know to save the planet.

So you're (and probably the green) solution is a big F-U to these people living rurally and don't let anyone else live out there ever again? Do you not think these people should be getting some kind of bang for their buck in the taxes they pay. The fact is diesel should have no more tax put on it in fact tax on petrol/diesel/oil and gas should be taken away completely until we are out of the woods with regards to the cost of living/housing/energy crisis/upcoming recession.

Move where? my god are you listening to yourself. I will type this out slowly and in caps WE. ARE. IN. A. HOUSING. CRISIS. So answer my question move where???? Do we want 4/5 families or 20 people in the typical 3 bedroom gaff as can be seen currently in some areas of Dublin?

Its the likes of you with your delusions that a few SUVs in a small country out on the most western part of Europe is the driver of all woes related to the current climate change when the fact is we could all get rid of all cars and any other product or service that interferes and impacts our planet with regards to climate and the world will still be no better off as long as China and the US (who make up almost 50% of emissions) are doing what they are doing. But you think put more taxes on diesel as people in rural areas will have to pay it as they have no other valid options (even do the greens and government knew about it 20 years ago, like how long do they want) but to drive and that will help that poor Ozone layer. You really need to wake up and smell what your shoveling. The greens will be obliterated all over Europe in up coming elections as rolling blackouts are introduced. I do actually agree with a lot of what the greens are trying to do but there needs to be options for people to move onto first, but when it comes to keeping warm and the current cost of energy and the fact that a hell of a lot of what we pay for that energy is tax this will come to the fore soon enough in the next G.E and the greens will be done for.

I don't disagree with the general point of reducing fossil fuel use/carbon emissions etc but forcing everyone to move into cities is completely pie in the sky stuff.

people being able to drive their unnecessarily big SUVs

There are prob more big SUV's being driven in the leafy suburbs of Dublin than the rural areas of any province

Not forcing everybody, but adapting policies to encourage sustainable living, which includes no more one-off housing.

We have known about this problem since 1976, yet the only party saying anything on it are the Greens.

You're softening your tone a bit - reality tends to do that.

Never said that people should be forced to move, just that the State should encourage them through taxation and incentives to move. Cigarettes are taxed heavily to encourage people to stop smoking but nobody is forced to stop smoking.

I am sure that people have their own reasons for living in the countryside, that is their business, but it is not a choice based on future sustainable living.

According to the Sunday Indo every household is going to get a 600e energy credit over the winter. It will be paid in 3 installments, with the first being paid before Christmas and the remaining two after. That should help alleviate some of the costs of electricity for people in the coming months.

UNSUSTAINABLE LIVING MY ARSE, I live in rural Ireland on my family farm, we grow our own veg, have off season veg grown in our Polytunnel over the winter, we eat our own beef and lamb get a local abattoir and butcher to cut them up. Any brown bin waste is put into a compost bin, once composted is mixed with our dung heap from the farm and either spread back onto land or used in the raised beds for the tunnel. And I am only a clown.

Stop pushing your agenda of lets put everyone into cities or towns, I love where I lived, I will not live anywhere else and there is nothing more SUSTAINABLE than the way I am living at the minute.

Cram everyone into cities as thing become sustainable then, living in cities creates GDP. That's the reason they want us living in cities not because of sustainability or green agendas.

Think about it what GDP am I creating by living in rural Ireland, apart from diesel I realistically could be self sufficient on the rest, and hence no spending no debt creation no GDP.

If I lived in Dublin city (I have aswell thankfully back home) I would literally have nothing to do bar spend money inorder to entertain myself and that's what they want GDP, and spend money on needless materialistic crap shipped from across the world but hey we're all sustainable and up to our eyeballs in debt and nothing to show for it bar a 2 bed apartment that you couldn't swing a cat in.

I'm sorry, there is alot of people who will never leave there home or rural town land, likewise there are lots of inner city folk who couldn't imagine themselves ever living in the country.