"Green" policies are destroying this country

😂😂😂😂😂 but I’m not on welfare.

You said anyone who wants an upgrade can have one for free?

Perhaps I’m confused. Did you say there were grants for those on carers allowance who do not live with the person they care for? That’s what I’m talking about and I can’t see it on the seai website.

I thought this was a climate "emergency"? If it's such an emergency, surely hard working mortgage holders should be getting retrofits for free like those who aren't/can't/won't work?

How much to replace Windows and doors to air tight spec, heat pump, interior and exterior insulation wrap, underfloor heating etc? These are all required to to get a heat pump to work at it's most efficient...

Except the greens are forcing people to go down that road by applying carbon taxes on kerosene. On top of the tax that's already on it. If I can't afford a heat pump and the associated works with it, why should I be punished for heating my house? While those on the dole who contribute nothing, will get it for free!

It's not a binary choice between kerosene and a heat pump. There are alternatives

And the carbon tax is 8.4c a litre. Kerosene is about 1.30 a litre but was 1.40 a litre before the budget so the carbon tax clearly isn't the main driver of the cost of your home heating oil

So maybe by 2060 there will be grants for all homes, the progress to date has been glacially slow.Another failure from the greens.

There's absolutely no pleasing some people

Are you going to retract your statement?

The one where you said there are FREE upgrades for anyone that wants one.

Or maybe, just maybe, all of the world's scientists are right and climate change is real and we need to stop burning fossil fuels?

Talking of heat pumps. The council purchased one of the houses in our estate last year. Lovely family moved into it. They work but income allowed them to qualify for social housing. We were chatting over the summer and they told me their electricity bill was 600 and when I asked how it was so big he told me it was because they had a heat pump. That was a June/July bill and before the latest increase. They said they couldn’t turn the heat pump off as it takes 2 weeks to cool down and another 2 to get working again and they needed hot water. I’m dunno how to use a heat pump but that seems a bad setup.

All the council did was install a heat pump and underfloor heating. The house was built in 2005 and they have the original wooden front door, double glazing and open fire. I dread to think how much money will be going up the chimney and through the front door come winter. They’ll be burning turf in the fire to keep the heat pump thermostat from kicking in all the time.

In my opinion, there is absolutely nothing green about what the local authority have done in that house.

And it's rubbish. The made up nonsense 'measures' from which the conclusion is derived are bonkers. Nonsense like "undercharging for environmental costs" and "foregone consumption taxes". What the actual f**k? In Ireland, 53.35% of the cost of petrol is tax, and 47.1% of diesel. I do get that climate catastrophists, such as yourself, don't think that's enough tax but your ilk are out of your shrunken little minds, particularly when you start calling such massive levels of taxation 'subsidies' because you don't think that's enough.

Undercharging for environmental costs is not a subsidy. It's a greenie opinion that is utterly divergent from the meaning of 'subsidy': "a sum of money granted by the state or a public body to help an industry or business keep the price of a commodity or service low:"

No money has been granted here and there is no fixing of price below the cost of production. That criteria is a nonsense rabbit hole that allows you to concoct all sorts of crap

How about recognising that it's not fossil fuels degrading the environment, but people, and that there are too many people, and this is because of modern medicine? So it's really medicine that is massively subsidised by thousands of percent because we haven't accounted for the environmental damage of all the people who would otherwise have died because of it.

So lets tax medicine and health care on the basis of the envirnmental damage they lead to, thus making it only for those with a a million or three in wealth. It shouldn't take long to depopulate the planet where overnight we will be back to a 46.2% infant mortality rate. The film Elysium rather nicely portrays this enviable goal; an isolated wealthy elite living long and healthy lives in comfort while the rest of humanity doesn't.

And now of course I realise that engineering is massively 'subsidised' because almost all the environmental damage in the world results from the application of engineering, so lets tax that by several thousands of percent.

No, no, how could I have been so blind! My god, what a revelation, none of those things is the real, most egregious subsidy leading to environmental destruction. It is of course knowledge/education. Education is the real environmental problem, we need to tax that sufficiently to wipe it out so that ther is almost no engineering and almost no medicine, which of course will in themselves lead to a return to an Iron age existence and next to no use of fossil fuels. Except for the wealthy, of course.

You might want to stop waving that toilet 'paper' around as evidence of anything.

No you cant, you have to make an application and choose from a very restricted list of contractors who will then proceed to fleece you.Alternatively go to your local builders providers and purchase the materials and then employ a competent handyman or DIY for about 45% of the grant job.But expect no help from the greens if you go this route they will charge you VAT to help save the planet.Money for the green circle is the only way the greens know.

How the hell would you know, are u a heating engineer, HPs are finnicky, a bad installation/environment can be the ruination of the efficiency of the HP.In a good installation they are great but there appears to he major problems if they not installed correctly.My son has one and loves it.