“You should read Eamon Ryan’s column in the Irish Times…he takes strong issue with the ESRI’s perspective”
Let’s be clear about what is happening here: The Government is not foregoing a single cent in taxation.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin says that, despite the windfall that the State would have received from taxes on fuel amid global energy price hikes, the measures Government is taking are not “cost-neutral” to the exchequer.
“It directly funds retrofitting.”
As Harris promises intervention to tackle soaring costs
The junkets are over for another year: Now, can our politicians actually make themselves useful, for once?
350 million barrels of Irish Oil, sitting under the sea.
The man-made energy costs crisis.
Time to sell the family silver?
They say they don’t “at all” support reducing carbon tax, despite energy price hikes, as it wouldn’t be “environmentally responsible”.
“We’ve a chance to prove ourselves here that we can also take swift and agile action to address something.”
“There’s no excuse.”