Sinn Fein and how do they form a government dilemma

Contained in this is the reason the Greens are so disliked and disrespected.
There would be no joy for them unless people where disadvantaged or had their quality of life disrupted or it didn't cost the ordinary person.

The Greens are the greatest danger to the green agenda. Their arrogance and holier than thou preaching puts people off frankly.

Absolutely correct. The non-whataboutery response to you would have been to produce Sinn Fein's alternative budget plans and to explain why they are better than those of the government. However, to be fair to that poster, there isn't a single person in the country who could produce the Sinn Fein alternative budget and explain how it is better.

It is a joke the way that people defend Sinn Fein. Everyone knows that Sinn Fein is against everything, nobody knows what Sinn Fein are for, that is why their support is falling.

You'd need a very creative accountant to include robbing ATMs and washing diesel as income sources, to be fair.

If a political party is receiving revenue from those sources and you know about it doesn't that meand we have incompetent law enforcers and revenue commissioners?

eh?

You are blind Clo. You get off calling a hypothetical budget incompetent (SF corrected the Business Post claims btw) while ignoring actual incompetence.

Take the plank out of your eye maybe?

*I don't think there is a perfect political party on the planet btw. They will all make mistakes, do good and bad.

** Nobody, certainly not I, is claiming Ireland is a terrible place to live. Again you need some perspective.

A Just Transition Task Force This is a good idea
No carbon tax increases in the absence of viable alternatives Fully agree with this
No new licences for offshore fossil fuel drilling and no new
fossil fuel infrastructure - Absolutely agree and any 'Green' staying in a government doing this is a bogus Green.
A total ban on fracking across the island of Ireland, including
exploratory drilling, and a total ban on the importation of
fracked gas - I agree
Termination of all peat and coal electricity over the next five
years - While it would be a good thing, I think 5 years is hopeful
State divestment in fossil fuel projects - I agree
All data centres to be powered through self-generated 100%
renewable energy - Agree
A legal and structural framework for domestic microgeneration
of renewable energy - Agree
Greater community ownership and public participation in
renewable energy projects. - Again, a good idea on several levels

I also agree with them on the wrongheadedness of the taxation approach to changing behaviours. What the Greens are seeking to change by taxing people will not halt or put the tiniest dent in saving the planet. Therefore tax the worst offenders first, then work down the chain. Bring people with you instead of alienating them from the get go.

Some in SF hate FF and vice versa, after FF leader DeValera executed some IRA in an Irish prison back in the forties : some Republicans have not forgotten that.

When I said that SF are the new FF, I was seeing them as replacing the FF of Haughey and Ahern, corrupt, power-hungry and not interested in the people. There have always been a section of people who have voted for that type. If you look at vote-share, and add FF to SF, you get a figure close to what Haughey and Ahern used get. We even have them on here, posters claiming to have been fooled for 40 years and are now switching to SF for the first time.

I don't there is a snowball's chance in hell that FF will form a coalition with that type of party - after all, they never formed one with Haughey or Ahern.

Quite clearly, since FG have installed FF (with a leader who served in governments of Haughey and Ahern) in government, even though it was 'like putting Delaney back in the FAI', there is now a good FF and a bad FF.

I was curious about FFs green energy policy. They've actually listed targets and pathways to grow generation capacity through green sources, as well as promoting an import link between Ireland and France. Similar statements about fracking and new licenses for fossil fuel exploration. No mention of shutting down fossil fuel plants which is reasonable. That has to come after we increase renewables and we're a long way from that unfortunately. They have a half way point wrt peat. It talks of reviews and amendments rather than outright shutdowns.

If we can reasonably shut down generators I would hope we kill the most polluting ones first. Those generally have the best ramp up times to meet surges in demand though.

I wish someone was talking more about storage though. I was a bit disappointed to not see either policy committing to targets around storage capacity.

Objectively the FF policy is more detailed and provides a clearer structure on how we get to net zero and renewable generation. If green energy would win your vote, FF is better than SF in terms of vision, approach and targets

What I read in their housing policy says that the LA's would hold the no charge leases,

The buyer isn’t paying for the site. It’s proposed as an alternative to shared equity I assume.
Will it work? I don’t know but it seems as sound as shred equity does to me.