"Green" policies are destroying this country

Do you think the taxes will be scrapped when the new government forms? If not why not? Keep in mind all sitting TDs were in agreement with carbon taxes when introduced and the greens weren't in power.

Could that be because we built windfarms in different parts of the country instead of in one location and only the turbines in the windy parts of our country are operating?

The theory of unreliable wind doesn't really work in Ireland haha!

I don't think FFG have any plans to change the law for a worse environment or less climate action. With or without the greens

But if the builders are going to charge the same for the old style home as one that has followed the current regs where's the savings for the buyer?

With the power requirements of AI and cloud storage not to mention coins, can Ireland support these industries without introducing nuclear power?

It doesn`t appear as if the Greens were the only party of the left with not much to sell to the electorate. The combined vote of the parties of the left going into this election (SF, Labour, SD`s, Greens and SPBP) was 62. In a Dail now of 174 rather than the 160 of 2020 they have 61 seats.

I would see it as inevitable at this stage that it will be a FF, FG, Inde government. Chambers of FF may have a good poker face that doesn`t give away much, but on the Upfront with Katie Hannon show when young Marie Sherlock of Labour on her first day as a T.D. cut lose with her car wreck statement even he could not hide the "We do not need this **** for the next 5 years".

FG never looked that happy with much of the Greens agenda, and while choir boy Martin may have notions between the members of his own party who were never that keen on the greens agenda, and the Indies now being the tail of the dog I cannot see any notion he has getting much traction. Especially any of them rural related.

I remember 10 years ago posters on this forum and the then government telling us the massive fines that were coming our way from the E.U. if we didn`t introduce water charges, and I have yet to see them.

The E.U. is not going to achieve their emissions targets so it would be a bit hypocritical for them to go after us for not achieving ours. In fact if the E.U. stop playing the "biomass is carbon neutral game" from which the get 60% of their energy, they are worse off than we are on emissions.

Finland per person consumes over twice the KWh/year of France.

14,747 compared to Frances 6,638. (Source International Energy Agency)