Notably, Eamon Ryan’s distress emerged on the same day that one of his erstwhile allies made a key admission.
Here is a thing that most Irish people do not understand: Higher energy prices have been the long-term policy of the Irish state for about twenty years.
Three card trick.
In the European Union, the whole point of advisory boards is not to make policy more efficient, but to make it more centralised and European.
As Minister, Eamon Ryan hosted a formal meeting at his Leinster House office with climate extremist group Extinction Rebellion to discuss Ireland’s LNG policy and his own personal political “legacy”. Ben Scallan comments:
“Holding the line against LNG.”
Virtue signalling
Gript’s Ben Scallan asks how the State will avoid cost overruns on the Dublin Metro. Ministers Eamon Ryan & Ossian Smyth reply that projects like the National Broadband Plan are on-budget because they “balanced risk” between the State & the contractor as part of the agreement.
In an effort to soften the unpopular impact of carbon taxes, the green political lobby have coined the terms “Climate Justice” and “a just transition”.
You might argue – might – that €350,000 is an amount of money that should be below the notice of Ministers, but you’d be making an argument that only an idiot should believe.
At every step along the way, Irish Governments over the last decade or more have pursued – consciously and with foreknowledge – a policy of higher energy costs.
In 2022, a memo warned the Irish government that a large asylum seeker influx may damage “social cohesion”, particularly among “deprived communities”.