Ellen Coyne

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622 appearances 9 recordings 5 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 18 Jun

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Today with David McCullagh · Could we see one off payments for EV’s and heat pumps? · 27 Apr 2026 podcast

Europe has kind of made the same mistake again, has found ourselves in the same position.

And it seems that the government is doubling down on trying to pursue just transition policies.

We know we're not that popular.

But the idea is that if people are able to switch to more sustainable energy models, then that is obviously cheaper than throwing three quarters of a billion euro at an economy that overly relies on carbon fuel for heating and transport.

Well, I think, I mean, so obviously we know it's going to cost €22 million to have that delay from the 1st of May until the 14th of October.

That was a direct result of the fuel protests.

But I think the interesting context of this is that the fuel protests have kind of given rise to more criticism of the carbon tax than ever before.

And the government used to cling to that as a kind of like infallible promise that they would never walk the carbon tax back.

And I think there's probably a realisation in government that by the time we get to October, unfortunately,

there's a non-zero chance that this war will be continuing.

And as they learned after the one-off measures brought in after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it's very difficult to kind of walk these things back.

So the government might be bracing for another row or another pushback when it tries to bring in that carbon tax increase that had been due on the 1st of May that is now pushed towards Budget Day.

Yes, and I suppose, obviously, I'm sure there's listeners who would be annoyed at that prospect, but I'm sure there's others who have gone through very optimistic SEI assessments of their home only to find that something like a heat pump or indeed the cost of a new electric car is well beyond their reach.

So if the government is trying to help the people hurt most, that's probably where its focus is.

And I think Simon Harris also made a concession that obviously this issue

is all being prompted by the US-Israel war on Iran.

But even before that, he's kind of saying that energy prices in Ireland were already too high.

So this is something that maybe should have been considered before now, but maybe it's better late than never.

Well, I was asking someone about that yesterday and they were kind of saying it's not really tethered to this budget, but I suppose just given that this is an urgent political issue that is obviously biting right now, I would imagine that this is something they would want to move forward sooner rather than later.

He has literally just asked officials to start looking at this.

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