Oisín Coughlan
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So I think we're going to have to trade with China for this because we can't certainly rely on the US on some of these issues.
But I also want to mention on the transport side, school buses.
One school bus company, that's a coach company, had to pull out of school bus runs last week after Easter because they couldn't longer make it pay.
So that's such a no-brainer, as in
we have a very limited amount of school buses, whereas even in the US, the free market of the world, they have lots more school buses.
By next September, the government should be saying, saying now and doing it by September, that anyone who wants a school bus to school can get it and also invest in those safe walking routes and safe cycling routes.
We see the congestion from school traffic and we see, therefore, the cost of that for people in terms of time and money.
Those are the sort of things.
We just need them to actually show they get where we are.
And some sort of scrappage scheme for oil boilers.
Again, the grants for heat pumps are often going to people who have gas already and who can afford it.