John Gibbons

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873 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 10 Sep

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The Last Word with Matt Cooper · How Will El Niño Impact Ireland This Autumn? · 3 Sep 2026 podcast

Fine Fall spokesman earlier.

I don't recall him explaining how he is going to square with the electorate when the EU comes looking for their fines for failure to to achieve the the the emissions cuts that we are legally obliged to comply with.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper · Environment: Should We Stockpile Food To Prepare For National Emergencies? · 27 Aug 2026 podcast

Yeah, good evening, Matt.

Um it's not as radical an idea as uh you might think.

For example, uh uh since nineteen eighty five, so that's thirty-one years ago, we set up uh the National Oil Reserve Agency or NORA.

And that NORA holds uh about one point seven million tons of liquid fuels on the island.

Now a little bit is is held offshore, but most of it is held in a series of big depots spread around the country.

Now, there's a pretty obvious reason for.

That matter, of course, is that this country runs on whether we like it or not, this country runs on oil.

And if we were to have a significant disruption to oil supplies, uh for an extended period of time, there would be chaos.

Hospitals would go black, bad things would happen, right?

So it represents an existential risk to society, uh, a breakdown in our access to fuel.

So as a result of that, we spend, I think there's a two euro or sorry, a two cent uh

per per litre levy, uh, which is the Nora levy.

It amounts to about two hundred and twenty million euros a year that we spend as a sort of an insurance policy uh to secure uh that gives us ninety days mat of oil on the island of Ireland.

So if something happens bad, okay.

We've got that buffer to get through it.

Now, that got me thinking, right, what else, you know, in these exciting times that we live, what else could happen that would cause chaos in Ireland?

And the most obvious thing, Matt, is a disruption or a breakdown to our food supply.

And what brought this to mind for me is I was reading a report from the Climate Change Council in the UK, and they submitted a report to the British government, and it warned that because Britain only produced

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