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Minister for Climate Eamon Ryan Alamy

Eamon Ryan warns climate crisis has fallen 'down the order' of political priorities

However, failure by states to reach an agreement at COP29 on climate finance to help developing countries would “shoot it back” up, he said.

MINISTER FOR CLIMATE Eamon Ryan has warned that the climate crisis has gone “down the order” of political priorities internationally as other geopolitical issues like conflict wreak destruction.

However, failure by states to reach an agreement on climate finance to help developing countries would “shoot it back” up again because of what a lack of action would mean for the world’s chances of staving off climate change, he said.

Tens of thousands of people from government delegations, civil society groups and media organisations have gathered in Baku, Azerbaijan for the 29th annual COP – an international climate conference that sees countries negotiate and try to strike agreements on important issues over the course of two weeks.

The main item on this year’s agenda is setting a new global target for climate finance that would be used to enable developing countries to take climate action – something that’s crucial both for their own sake and for the rest of the world given that climate change is a global problem.

Eamon Ryan arrived today at the conference, where he has been appointed by the COP29 presidency to co-facilitate talks about climate adaptation. He’s also the only senior Government member from Ireland to attend after Taoiseach Simon Harris and Tánaiste Micheál Martin both stayed home to campaign ahead the general election instead

“Climate change has gone down the order of political priorities, it’s true, for a variety of complex reasons. There’s conflict in the world,” Ryan said at the COP this morning, addressing the non-attendance this year by some key world leaders.

He said that the level of political attention given to climate “comes and goes”, adding: “I’m 30 years involved. We’ve seen the tide come in and tide come out.”

The deficit of attention from some countries comes despite the World Meteorological Organisation warning this week that the past decade has been the warmest 10-year period of of modern records and 2024 is on track to be the hottest single year.

“One thing is absolutely clear: If we didn’t get agreement here, it would shoot right back to the top of political priorities, because our populations would rightly say – so, what are you going to do? Are we going to allow the world burn? Are our children going to live in an unstable, unsafe, dangerous world?

“I think we should be careful about not reading too much into how many leaders are here – what will matter is what’s the final agreement,” he said.

COP29 had been anticipated by some to be a ‘quieter’ COP than others after a series of landmark decisions in recent years.

However, registration numbers show it is potentially the second most-attended COP ever and the importance of the negotiations on climate finance is becoming clearer and clearer.

At least $1 trillion is needed each year at a minimum to enable developing and small island countries deal with the climate crisis, which they have historically contributed to causing the least compared to high-income countries but yet have the least resources to be able to mitigate and adapt.

“Climate finance is absolutely critical to unlocking climate action in the Global South,” said Teresa Anderson, ActionAid International’s Global Lead on Climate Justice 

Speaking to The Journal at COP29, Anderson said that “the fact that there has been so little climate finance up until now really is making it so hard for all countries in the Global South to take action that they need to and communities are suffering”.

We see every day that their vulnerability is getting deeper.

“Their governments are getting forced into more and more debt, and it’s almost impossible for countries to cope with and recover from climate disasters and adapt to future impacts, let alone have the finance to transition to greener pathways.

“So unless we get real climate finance in the new collective quantified goal here at COP29, we’re not going to be able to see the Global South coping with the climate crisis and we’re not going to see the planet cutting emissions at the scale we need to avert a runaway climate breakdown,” she said.

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    Mute Tommy
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    Nov 13th 2024, 10:43 AM

    Because Eamon your suggestions are taxing people to oblivion like you have done to the Irish Taxpayers. You think that Ireland is going to save the world with all this extra tax.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 11:10 AM

    @Tommy: He has been nothing short of an Irish disgrace since he entered politics. Tax tax tax everything that moves until it doesnt move any more. The sooner the green goblins are wound up come the 29th the better.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 11:39 AM

    @Marvin Dollery: Ok, you said ‘tax, tax, tax’. Please give me 3 taxes which are purely the responsibility of the Green Party? Thanks!

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    Nov 13th 2024, 11:52 AM

    @Sean O’Dhubhghaill: I’ll happily name the two biggest green party taxes for you. Number one, and it’s the giant one so don’t get overwhelmed – Carbon Tax. This is heavily punishing motorists who don’t have the capital for one of those mickey mouse EV’s. Number two, and it is a form of tax – the Re-turn complete quango. This measure is punitive, when more convenient systems could have been implemented that didn’t make plastic bottle slaves out of the entire population. The Green Party love to make life unbearable for the workers of this country.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 12:56 PM

    @Sean O’Dhubhghaill: carbon, increase on vrt on any car that isn’t a microwave, increase tax on chemical sprays and fertiliser, increase the taxes on coal as well as trying to stop people cutting turf on their own property, brought in a sugar tax, and many more

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    Nov 13th 2024, 1:15 PM

    @K O: chemical sprays have a standard rate of vat, fertilisers a zero rate. Sugar tax was introduced in 2018 when the Greens were not in government. Yes, the greens were in power when carbon tax was introduced, but don’t think that FF or FG wouldn’t have introduced it anyway.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 1:22 PM

    @Sean O’Dhubhghaill: Come on out “Seán”, your little hit and run comments only make you look foolish. Surprised a West Cork man is this gullible and naive, normally ye are well planted folk.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 1:26 PM

    @Marvin Dollery: Merv, your original comments said they tax tax tax everything that moves. Sean asked for examples of these taxes, and you came up with one plus a deposit return scheme – one!! By any measure, you have failed miserably to back up your original comment

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    Nov 13th 2024, 1:37 PM

    @Marvin Dollery: Excise Duty puts about 40c on a litre if diesel. VAT puts about 35c on the same litre. The Carbon Tax puts 15c on the litre. If anything is making life ‘unbearable’ it’s the first two taxes, not the last. 75c V. 15c.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 1:39 PM

    @Kevin Kerr: Don’t be silly Sean, I mean Kevin. I names the taxes that’ll topple these clowns. I’ve done my bit as far as I’m concerned. Being Wednesday, I thought you’d have a critical race theory exam to study for. The mind truly boggles.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 1:43 PM

    @Sean O’Dhubhghaill: Excuse me if thinking an extra 15c per litre on ALREADY LUDACROUS fuel costs isn’t bordering on insane. Not all of us are wealthy. Your comments reek of arrogance, shame on you.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 2:14 PM

    @Marvin Dollery: If fuel costs are ludicrous, blame the 75c of Excise and VAT. But blaming possibly the smallest tax, the 15c Carbon Tax, for the high cost is illogical.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 2:21 PM

    @Sean O’Dhubhghaill: No, I’ll blame the green party who will be increasing it annually until only the wealthy can afford fuel. Nice try.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 3:11 PM

    @Marvin Dollery: As I said. Illogical.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 3:13 PM

    @Sean O’Dhubhghaill: No Sean.

    You’re missing the point entirely.

    And probably deliberately.

    If we are already paying excessive amount for fuel then an additional 15c is unconscionable.

    And unforgivable.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 3:32 PM

    @ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: No, I’ll accept that. But blaming this (smaller) tax for a person’s poverty while ignoring the 2 big elephants in the room is illogical.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 3:58 PM

    @Sean O’Dhubhghaill: It isn’t illogical, you aren’t grasping the context. The green party represents financial punishment via the medium of taxes. No way around it.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 4:20 PM

    @Marvin Dollery: What does Donald Trump represent to you? Do you think he represents that to everybody?

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    Nov 13th 2024, 4:29 PM

    @Sean O’Dhubhghaill: Oh dear. Now you go and bring President Trump into this, despite no mention of the great man. I suggest you go out around Clonakilty for a walk and think things over.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 5:11 PM

    @Marvin Dollery: No, just showing that the same person/party can represent different things to different people.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 5:21 PM

    @Sean O’Dhubhghaill: The Green Party represents nothing but hardship Seán. They’re a group of elitists who are completely out of touch with the general population. Time to wake up.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 8:05 PM

    @Sean O’Dhubhghaill: The green party has double standards. Two years ago, I changed to an electric car to help with the Carbon footprint ??.. I hold a Primary Medical cert. This entitles me to a discount on Petrol or Diesel at the end of every year..Enquired how to go about claiming for Electric..Answer was no refund for Electric…was told I should have stayed with an
    ICE car..Second… in the rollout of Electric Chargers..the Greens got into bed with the ESB to fit them around the country ..Not properly maintained, and if two cars plug in one power outlet the power drops and you get an €8 overstay charge..So yes ..Greens equals Tax the public for what they can get and try and be Nice about it..

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    Nov 14th 2024, 7:14 AM

    @Marvin Dollery: don’t forget the circular economy tax. That was a 15% jump on bit charges to encourage people to recycle more. That was am anti baby tax basically.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 10:43 AM

    Because it is not a priority of voters. Eamon Ryan should listen to those he claims to represent, not the other way around.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 11:16 AM

    @John K: No: politicians should show leadership. This issue is too important to be allowed to drift.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 11:23 AM

    @Brendan O’Brien: so, politicians shouldn’t listen to their electorate??? Always PRIORITISE….. if the ship is sinking, pump the water out— don’t fret about what colour the decks are painted

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    Nov 13th 2024, 11:29 AM

    @Frank Mc Carthy: Don’t you ever tire of posting drivel in multiple IDs?

    Clearly not.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 11:31 AM

    @Brendan O’Brien: when people are struggling to pay rent while trying to save for a house deposit for a house that’s too expensive they don’t appreciate being told that their lifestyle is a problem and they need to pay additional taxes to attone for their sins. The green party’s policies amount to guilting people who just want a better life for themselves and their family to self flagellate.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 11:38 AM

    @John K: That does not affect my point that politicians should show leadership (the right kind of leadership). The crisis won’t go away of its own accord, and it will impact everybody.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 11:39 AM

    @Brendan O’Brien: oh, the IRONY is hilarious, lol

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    Nov 13th 2024, 12:14 PM

    @John K: he is. He was voted in by green supporters. The issue is FF/FG then decided to go into Government with the Greens knowing they could fob off the blame to them.
    If anything it’s Mehole and Leo you should be blaming.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 3:16 PM

    @Brendan O’Brien: In a democracy, our politicians are supposed to represent the will of the people.

    In a democracy.

    You don’t have to like that.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 10:49 AM

    WOW Eamon, real ‘finger in the pulse’ there!!!!! While our youth can’t get a roof over their heads, thousands of children are classed as “homeless”, children suffer daily with scoliosis, communities are being ravaged by thousands of economic unvetted migrants, crime is out of control…… I could go on& on but I think you get the gist….. Let’s solve the big problems before opening any more cycle lanes

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    Nov 13th 2024, 12:14 PM

    @Kevvy kerrr: hey kevvy kerrrrrrrrrr, now that you’ve got that rant out of your system, how about actually reading the article, and then come back to us and give your considered opinion? I know it’s a radical suggestion for you to read before commenting, but it really is the logical order, because that way your comment at least has some hope of making sense

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    Nov 13th 2024, 12:26 PM

    @Kevin Kerr: hey supreme stalker……..it’s lunchtime & you’re only starting into a day’s trolling????? It’s really uncanny how your juvenile posts are always same time as brennys??? Lol

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    Nov 13th 2024, 10:48 AM

    Not everyone’s on a TD’s salary. Heating, eating and keeping a roof over our heads is mine and everyone else’s priority. He doesn’t have a flipping clue..

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    Nov 13th 2024, 10:49 AM

    Has he really no insight into what is happening in the country. People are struggling to keep their heads above water and he insists that climate change is the be all and end all.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 12:08 PM

    @karen delaney: well it will be the end all if we keep ignoring it but yes everyone is struggling financially and that’s a priority

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    Nov 13th 2024, 10:49 AM

    Maybe a new bike shed is in order!!

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    Nov 13th 2024, 11:21 AM

    @Brian Barry: Eamon says the new environmentally friendly bike sheds might cost a little more, cos they’re being built with Bamboo sticks and covered with palm fronds. He says it’s worth it though..

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    Nov 13th 2024, 10:50 AM

    I believe 100% on climate change causes by human beings. However, the climate change industry is facilitating the worst type of theft from society.
    71% percent of global CO2 emissions are caused by just 100 companies. Address that and then come back to us.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 10:58 AM

    @Louis Jacob: no, they want the masses to be enslaved forever to pay for the economic crimes of 100 global companies whose greed can never be satisfied

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    Nov 13th 2024, 10:56 AM

    Lost interest after ‘Eamonn Ryan warns”

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    Nov 13th 2024, 11:03 AM

    @Mr “JonnieBoy” Johnson: “Eamon Ryan warns” that the country doesn’t have enough bike sheds and cycle lanes.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 10:53 AM

    Because you have taxed us to the hilt eamonn ! The us and china are the biggest polluters on the planet they dont even know where ireland is go after them!

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    Nov 13th 2024, 11:43 AM

    @Alan Boyd: Last year 51% of cars sold in China were EVs.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 1:05 PM

    @Sean O’Dhubhghaill: faulty microwaves

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    Nov 13th 2024, 2:00 PM

    @Sean O’Dhubhghaill:
    51% of new car owners in China are very gullible so

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    Nov 13th 2024, 8:20 PM

    @Sean O’Dhubhghaill: Please, just please tell me you did just not say that with a straight face?

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    Nov 13th 2024, 11:02 AM

    Welcome to our world eamonn just as well you are goin before your gang are wiped out we are taxed in to oblvion bike lanes that nobody uses thousand of cars goin into dublin airport beacause of no rail likes co2!!!! M50 a daily carpark co2. No metro to take these cars off the roads you shud be ashamed of your selves!! But your living in the land of the fairies!!

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    Nov 13th 2024, 11:09 AM

    Where were the greens protesting and pushing aggressively an urgent public transport agenda? Want us to park the car and take the train? Then build more rail tracks, more and larger train services, metro lines. What, they expect the metro fairy to take us there? Instead, he pushed for taxes, oh yeah, tax and do nothing else.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 12:22 PM

    @J Ven: instead what’s proposed for the Rosslare Dublin line is train from Rosslare terminate at Wicklow or somewhere and everyone decamp and change train in what world does that make sense.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 11:31 AM

    Yeah , down the list of priorities . Just like Green Party itself . Here’s to a 100% wipeout of Green Party on 29th November .

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    Nov 13th 2024, 11:13 AM

    Because you punished the ordinary person instead of the biggest polluters, the rich. The Greens have no socio-economic policy, they just don’t want to offend their biggest supporters in the rich.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 11:20 AM

    @Brian D’Arcy: I’m rich, how do I polllute more than you?

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    Nov 13th 2024, 11:46 AM

    @Paul M Doe: by being constantly on your phone for a start.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 1:21 PM

    @Paul M Doe: bigger cars ,bigger houses, more holidays. Certainly applies to rich people I know

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    Nov 13th 2024, 10:49 AM

    Welcome to reality Mr Ryan.
    Repeated polls show that the majority believe climate change is real and it’s man made but for an awful lot of people it’s simply not something they can afford to spend money on right now.
    For instance they brought in BER certs for housing as a means of influencing peoples choice as to what they rent (and buy).
    Reality is that a D2 house beside a B2 house will make the same rent, because we don’t have enough houses.
    We need to transition to a green economy…
    Over the next 50 years.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 11:04 AM

    @P. J.: Exactly, and why should we sacrifice so much for “solutions” that only scratch at the problem, when the real polluters increase corporate bonuses by multiples every years. The polluter pays?. Ffs. Pure and utter shame.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 1:18 PM

    @P. J.: until they exclude the d 2 as not meeting the minimum requirement and remove it from the rental market (coming 2025)

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    Nov 13th 2024, 1:19 PM

    @Louis Jacob:
    Sorry Louis but the notion that any government is going to be able to pass on the costs to “someone else” is a fallacy, often used by politicians.
    Trump is the most extreme example.
    All charges, all costs, all Levy’s, all corporation tax is paid by the end users
    You and me.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 3:25 PM

    @P. J.: Corporation tax is not paid by you and me.

    It is paid from the profits of corporations.

    The more they try to screw people, the more tax they pay.

    Corporations, these days, operate on a maximised profits basis. That is charge what they can get away with to maximize their profits. They will do irrespective of the tax taken on those profits. Increasing or reducing that tax will not change the ‘price the market will bear’ that corporations use to set a price for their goods and services.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 11:19 AM

    I will always do the exact opposite of what tree huggers want :)

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    Nov 13th 2024, 3:14 PM

    @Paul M Doe: that makes sense, you get a feel for the way the comments are going on each article and then say the opposite for a thumbs up…

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    Nov 13th 2024, 12:41 PM

    Is there a reason why the tens of thousands of people who’ve gotten on a plane to lecture the rest of us about climate change cannot attend COP virtually.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 11:00 AM

    Wonderful, long may it continue

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    Nov 13th 2024, 12:52 PM

    All the bike lanes but no enforcement on bikes on paths. No insurance for
    E bikes.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 12:37 PM

    Hopefully the end of the green cult.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 11:54 AM

    Pakistan is covered in smog from pollution, the farmers are burning everything they can, anything we do in Ireland makes 0 effect

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    Nov 13th 2024, 2:47 PM

    @Gavin Lynam: And China are Opening More Coal power stations…Still let’s Hammer the people in little oul Ireland.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 1:59 PM

    Of course it has, all because of his policies of taxng people. It doesn’t work that way. The more you tax people and continue to take money out of peoples pockets, the less people will listen to anything from this party. Your time is up, roll on this election, and good riddance to you and your tax party.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 11:41 AM

    Vote independent all the way folks.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 11:21 AM

    We need FG and FF and no one else and let prosperity run wild :)

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    Mute Brian D'Arcy
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    Nov 13th 2024, 12:34 PM

    The Greens are genius, let’s preserve a world that only the minority can live in, they don’t seem to get it.

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    Mute Karen Marten
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    Nov 13th 2024, 11:03 AM

    Send him to talk to TONY BEETES .& PARKER SCHANABLE and tell them what they are doing to the environment is wrong.

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    Mute MN
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    Nov 13th 2024, 12:44 PM

    Find a way that doesn’t mean making people poorer

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    Nov 13th 2024, 1:20 PM

    @MN:
    Keep dreaming.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 2:04 PM

    Considering that Carbon Taxes have normalised the concept of fuel poverty he has a bit of a cheek tbh.

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    Mute J B
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    Nov 13th 2024, 12:10 PM

    Drill baby drill.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 10:46 AM

    This morning’s AQI figure of 135 in Dublin is pretty dire. It’s approx. 400% of the already lenient WHO recommended maximum healthy exposure. We have to stop burning stuff.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 10:53 AM

    @Sami Hentunen: you first…*stuff* was burned to manufacture the device you posted your comment on…

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    Nov 13th 2024, 12:56 PM

    @Finian McG: What? No way!

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    Mute Christopher Fealy
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    Nov 13th 2024, 11:32 AM

    THANK GOD UR GONE DICK., HOPEFULLY THE REST OF UR LOT AS WELL.

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    Mute Fergus O'Donnell
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    Nov 13th 2024, 3:33 PM

    And all because of you Eamon.

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    Mute Mayo seem to be the football equivalent of Waterfo
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    Nov 13th 2024, 2:03 PM

    Most people are just trying to survive today. Trying to save the environment if it basically means no quality of life now because it’s unaffordable is a non runner

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    Nov 13th 2024, 2:44 PM

    With THAT Children’s Hospital and the Bike shed.I Think we have Enough White Elephants as it is.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 5:31 PM

    How did he get to the conference?
    Walk or cycle ?

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    Nov 13th 2024, 10:45 AM

    Bedrock beckons.

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    Mute Ethan Gannon
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    Nov 13th 2024, 1:50 PM

    Because yous mad a mess of everything in the present that people can’t afford to worry about the distant future!

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    Nov 13th 2024, 10:54 AM

    Unless i m wrong when you couldn’t burn Smokey coal they didn’t tax it they banned it. Why not the same policy now.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 11:41 AM

    It certainly has, to all our detriment

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    Nov 13th 2024, 2:33 PM

    When you have the president of COP29 telling the UN that gas and oil are gifts from God and you have Ryan pushing for more taxation in Ireland to hurt those who can’t pay well, what do you expect. Climate change is a load of rubbish…

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpqd1rzw9r4o

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    Nov 13th 2024, 4:23 PM

    Ryan a total tosser

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    Nov 13th 2024, 4:41 PM

    The man’s a complete Moran

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    Nov 13th 2024, 9:35 PM

    How does it feel to be irrelevant now Eamon? People are sick and tired of you using your partisan ideology as an excuse to tax them to death. Environmentalism is nothing more than a modern day form of racketeering which targets taxpayers. According to polls, your party is gonna be wiped out at the next general election and like many people, I’m very much looking forward to that happening.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 5:28 PM

    And he has fallen down in everyone’s priority

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    Nov 13th 2024, 8:34 PM

    It would help if his policies actually targeted the ones.destroying the planet instead of performative nonsense thats targets average people. In fact I would argue that his policies do more harm than good. Making people poorer forces them to to make les sustainable choices. Choices which are worse for the environment. He’s been a for Ireland and a disaster for the environment.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 2:08 PM

    Good.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 8:05 PM

    So it’s all about financing… What exactly?
    In the quoted global south is the island nation that is sinking. Exactly what can the good people of Vanuatu expect?
    Massive payouts, reimbursement for houses swept away? Payments for losing their homes?
    Hm.
    Were I a cynic, and were I to Google the below, I would ask are payments available to such new citizens and who avails of same? Invest $150k and collect $500k in return?

    Vanuatu CBI Investment Options 2024/2025

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    Nov 14th 2024, 1:24 AM

    We are a tiny irrelevant dot in a global emissions sense compared to the world. The Green lunatics response is well we must play our part.
    We are playing our part but it’s not enough or never will be enough for these extremists.
    They make everything bad to make it good?
    Be gone with them.

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    Nov 13th 2024, 2:04 PM

    Why did nt you put a tax on human farts Eamo. Or was that to be your next brain wave .

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    Mute Jason Walsh
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    Nov 13th 2024, 8:45 PM

    What level of dumb is Eamon. He’s basically saying the Greens totally dropped the ball on the lead up to an election.

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    Nov 14th 2024, 1:53 PM

    Nice to see him awake for a change

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