Michael Collins

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The Claire Byrne Show · Should the country reopen the door to coal-fired power? · 11 May 2026 podcast

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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.

That's the basics and that's what's happening here.

And what did this government and the previous government do?

Instead of helping people, they started putting more taxes, taxes, taxes.

Instead of encouraging people to go solar, I look at... But I just don't see how you get from that to burning coal again.

At the end of the day, it's oil that's running money point at this present time.

So we are back to external countries basically to keep Ireland running.

And if that tap closes, coming in from Moffat and Scotland or wherever it's coming from, and last week the Taoiseach was talking about bringing gas in from France.

If them taps close, we're in serious trouble in this country.

When we could provide it ourselves, it's different if we couldn't, but we are in a situation where we can provide energy independence ourselves until, and let this, like I've been constantly saying, let the country go, give the license to the operators to, we'll say,

drill for oil in Barryrow and they paid in.

The profits from that would pay for the renewables that this country should have in place many, many years ago and unfortunately hasn't.

Absolutely.

We have no choice.

It's a different thing if we had, and I feel awesome about this, we are in a desperate situation in this country.

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