Ellen Coyne
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622 appearances
9 recordings
5 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 18 Jun
Ellen Coyne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So I think that there is no escaping the fact that this is going to be a bitterly difficult winter for people.
Even if we woke up in the morning and all of a sudden Iran and America had come to the world's most efficient peace deal, we would still be feeling the effects of this because the infrastructure damage is so significant in the Middle East that it will take months to unravel this, even in the best case scenario.
And unfortunately, with the continued failing of the peace talks, we're still having to consider the worst case scenario as well.
Well, there's actually been conversations about this going on in government for a long time.
As far back as December 2024, there was actually a plan to phase out commercial accommodation by March of this year.
That was more, though, from the perspective of a crisis of accommodation supply.
This one is kind of different.
The government is trying to bridge the gap between what is morally right and fiscally prudent.
There's a sense in government that
The scale of Ukrainian supports are unsustainable and you kind of touched on it there.
I think one of the things that has nearly gone against Ukrainian people is that they've integrated so well and so many of them are working.
The government thinks that that is politically unpalatable, that it's a threat to social cohesion to have some people effectively living in rent free accommodation when they could be working in the same small business or a small company as an Irish person who's paying rent.
Okay, Thomas Byrne.
Today with David McCullagh · Could we see one off payments for EV’s and heat pumps? · 27 Apr 2026
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Sure, so this is obviously a fairly big concession by the government that even after digging three quarters of a billion euro out of its surplus to deal with the response to the fuel protests, obviously that is not enough.
So Simon Harness kind of flagged this in a speech to the EPP in Dublin on Saturday and then was talking about it further yesterday.
He is now trying to move to a position where either one-off grants or accessible finance would be made available on a one-off basis to people
If they want to try to pursue more expensive, but ultimately more sustainable heating and car options, so like electric cars, installing heat pumps in your house, or maybe trying to switch to HVO, which is hydro-treated vegetable oil.
And in some scenarios that can be used to heat your home.
Obviously, the backdrop to all of this is that the government is conscious that despite what everyone said in 2022 about the dangers of relying on
volatile oil and energy markets that we have no control over.
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