Michael Collins

Good morning, Clare.

Look, halfway down the road, we should never have gone that road, unfortunately, until we had renewables in place.

Ireland is a laggard.

We're well known throughout Europe as being a laggard in relation to renewables.

So we have a lot of dreaming and a lot of talking.

but in reality, Clare, the people on the ground here are suffering at this present time with the price of fuel and now the concern is are we going to continue getting fuel?

I've been saying this all along during the war, the price is shocking, but will we continue to get it if this war keeps going the way it's going and it isn't?

There's no solution that we can see out there at this present time.

We're being pushed into a situation where we may end up with no fuel.

We have opportunities here,

We shouldn't be in the situation looking at... What are the opportunities as you see them?

We had Barry Rowe, the Barry Rowe eye field.

The government refused to let the company drill.

They don't drill.

See what's there.

We still need fuel, whether we like it or not.

I would love to think that we live in a world where renewables run everything in this country, or almost everything in this country, but we're nowhere near that at this present time.

And the public out there are feeling the pinch.

There was a nurse

said that her car has been derailed, she can't afford the food.