The brainchild of the Minister for Climate Action Richard Bruton, this new plan will be the most comprehensive climate policy shift ever attempted in this country.
It will also outline how it will become outlawed to install an oil boiler in a newly built home by 2022 and the gas boiler by 2025. Although the plan will include a long litany of policy targets and timelines for delivery, the key to its success will be its governance structure. On that front, the plan will rely on a powerful new Oireachtas committee to oversee five-year government departmental carbon budgets.
It is expected to target that the number of electric car charging points will be increased so that at least 800,000 electric vehicles can be charged on public roads by 2030. There is also a speculation that the plan will include a ban on the use of petrol and diesel cars from town centres at some point before 2030 and then all public buses should be electric.
In addition, the plan envisages the roll out of so-called smart metering which will make it possible to change the price of electricity usage depending on the time of household energy demand.
All bullshit Veruka is full of it
A plan to start planning. We're fucked.
More tax tax tax feckin tax,3rd dearest country in Europe for feckin everything tàaaaaaxxxxx
Yes. Wind farms in very TDs back garden.
Tax tax tax!!
Greenland ice sheet not about to raise global sea levels...Was melting more in 2002....
RTE news in error announced Government are considering implementation of carbon tax....In fact we have had carbon tax since 2011..Think was FF brought it in....Reason we have one of the highest electricity charges in the EU...
there is no f--kin climate emergency in ireland this is just more bullshit propaganda to tax working class people , only people benefiting from this corporations and high up bureaucrats
All waffle, electric cars already been discredited and are not sustainable, as neither is wind energy...so we deal with something that is not an issue by creating new layers of unsustainability...how clever we are!!!
My prediction is that they'll increase the plastic bag levy, and then pat themselves on the back for a job well done.