"Green" policies are destroying this country

well for e.g. i live in north strand, the whole area has been given a massive facelift with new footpaths and safe bike lanes, because of green policies and a commitment to spend a lot of money on these kinds of things during their term in government. also plants and greening of previously dull concrete parts of the public realm. bus services are greatly improving, we have 24 hour buses now and the 2 euro 90 minute fare is amazing. just about to launch 24 hour route all the way to bray from dublin city centre. the metro looks like it'll actually go ahead this time.

all of these things are long lasting achievements and a voter like myself prioritises things like this as it improves our lives greatly.

aren't carbon taxes the work of the greens? they haven't gone away either and will be here to stay when the greens are gone, that would be considered a permanent success by the greens and it's woke cult following like myself.

Everything you've stated there can be dug up in the morning by the councils in the exact same way it was laid down, just like your policies. Carbon taxes included, with one swipe of a pen they can be eradicated anytime anything else needs to be prioritized. The only long lasting achievement ye have done within the last 5 years has been to make your ideology ultimately toxic with the vast majority of voters that will go to the polls within the next two elections. Your party, as well meaning as it may be, has no nuance to appeal to the vast majority because the green ideology only wants to think of the "immediate". Politics doesn't work like that, you have be a long-term sneak, just like the boyos you get in bed with who ultimately utilize your policies to then shift the blame on to you.

To spend the allocated monies they are given to make sure they get it the next year. Happens all the time. That's how it works. Those lads aren't concerned with any notion of saving the planet. Its all about getting the money.

I don't see their post but I was involved in processing the Termination of their Connection Offer long before 2019. Those units were pencilled to close late in the decade since 2011 and were assumed unavailable in the Gate 3 connection studies for the 4GW wind to meet the 2020 targets after 2018. They got extended due to margin issues, but not significantly. Only ED1 at Edenderry survived because they were testing co-firing with biomass at the time.

So the passenger cap is to be removed in dublin Airport.

I thought it was a climate emergency and everyone needed to do their bit?

Michael O Leary will be rubbing his hands.

This whole thing is a farce and this removal shows it.

No matter what we all try do and no matter how much taxes we are forced to pay it doesn’t matter one bit.

The people at the top still dictate while the small people get all the blame.

But the small people were going nuts because the people at the top wouldn't lift the cap, and blaming them for stifling the economy etc.

Nope.

That’s my point. Things can get changed on a whim to suit certain groups.

More planes= more pollution and Co2.

But hey just keep taxing the little people as it’s all their fault.

Why a joke the whole thing is.

I find it amusing that from reading post here from some you could be lead to believe that Eamon Ryan and greens were forced against their will to shut the two turf burning plants in Shannonbridge and Lanesboro.

I case anyone forgets these are the same people who wanted to introduce community borders within the country where communitied of less than one thousand could sell and gift turf within their border and those with greater than one thousand could not, and who recently wanted to introduce search and seizure legislation on turf.

What we have got in the interim from Ryan is electricity generation that is a shambles. A green policy on electricity generation that they are afraid to give a costing for that will not provide for demand, or even if its hydrogen element will work to scale. A high court judgement over-turning a LNG decision on planning that Ryan disgracefully used his weight of office to get even when he finally had to concede that we will need LNG, but like the three wise monkey green attitude to nuclear, would be a leased offshore ship terminal.

To add to the farce of shutting turf burning plants we now have a wood burning plant in Edenderry that was previously turf burning having wood shipped from Australia to Foynes and then transported by trucks on a 400 Km round trip, another plant for similar in Killala that will burn 200,000 ton of wood annually shipped to Killybegs from, above all places, Brazil, then transported to truck on a 330 Km round trip. Meanwhile we are all suppose to believe that this is all carbon neutral. Even An Taisce are not falling for that nonsense.

If you were writing a comedy farce you literally could not make this stuff up, yet the greens have made it government policy.

They were marked to be shut down before Eamon was in gov, I know you'll blame him anyway but surely they'll open them back up in a few weeks when the greens are gone?

The importing wood thing is ridiculous alright, much like the Origin Green nonsense with Irish beef and dairy as they're also fed imported grains from Brazil and beyond.

Did you miss the green`s threatening to collapse the government if they didn`t get their way on culling the number of cattle here ?

Will those power plants in Shannonbridge and Lanesboro re-open, I doubt it as Lanesboro was to be demolished and Shannonbridge is being converted to gas/diesel fuel burning, which isn`t exactly environmentally friendly either.

Do you thing the wood burning plants in Edenderry and Killala should be allowed to operate even if the greens are not gone from government ?