This is local to me, they need a petrol engined patrol car, so it works, in emergencies. Same as we needed our petrol powered chain saws and diesel powered tractors and SUVs in the aftermath of Storm Eowyn. Irish Green Party policy and the rural West of Ireland literally don’t work.
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Cut on carbon tax on home heating oil will mean a reduction of around €50 on an average 900-litre fill. But 900 litres costs approximately €700 more today than they did at this time last year, says Fuels for Ireland.
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An outbreak of TB on Diddly Squat farm hitting the “entertainment” headlines this evening in Ireland just about sums up where we are at. Thousands of Irish farmers “devastated” on a weekly basis with horrendous TB outbreaks without an eyelid bated from anybody.
Dear @greenparty_ie, @EamonRyan is not Minister for Transport etc. He is not a TD for Dublin Bay South.
Despite prompts from the public he continues to mislead millions nationally & internationally on X by claiming to be a minister.
Please reach out & advise him to update.
I sent emails to Government Minister’s two years ago and again last year about lack of planning for extreme weather and no flood warnings. Today I sent the below email, hopefully we will finally see some more planning, resourcing and real adaptation.
Listening to @NTBreakfast I hear the argument being made that there is nothing to be achieved by the Dail coming back from their holidays to reconvene. I strongly disagree; if they’re stuck for ideas than can start by repealing the legislation that has meant people have had to build new ‘green’ homes in rural Ireland without any capacity to heat them with timber/turf or diesel. They can immediately repeal all the ‘green’ taxes on the diesel we are having to run our generators on. They can put pressure on insurance companies to expedite payments of legitimate claims for storm damage. They can allocate resources so that the Garda can surge resources into the affected areas to prevent burglaries given that no alarm systems are going to be working properly. Then there’s the matter of the power, water and mobile communications…