Oisín Coughlan

Because the right was emboldened by his election.

Absolutely.

And of course, I mean, you know, by comparison with almost anyone in Europe, but maybe the exception of now Orban, who's gone, Trump is off the scales in terms of drill, baby, drill.

And like, let's close down the wind farms while oil prices go up and let's pay the wind farm companies to drill for oil.

So that's all a bit, that's all a bit mad.

And Europe hasn't gone that direction.

But we are all caught in those cross currents.

But I think what the current crisis has shown us is that fossil fuels are the problem.

Their supply, their security, because there's

political and wars now around them and their price and the price is hitting home as we saw in recent times but as we all can see in our pockets the price is hitting home and the government particularly after yesterday when they discovered they have even more money than they thought our main point now is you've spent 750 million in a few weeks to subsidise fossil fuel prices and we understand why we might have done it differently but we understand why where's the emergency spending plan where's the plan

to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, to get us off oil boilers and onto heat pumps, to get solar panels in every roof, to help people move to electric vehicles.

Who, if they had a choice, would now buy a diesel car or a petrol car?

But people need help.

They're coming down in price, but they need help.

And now is the opportunity.

And it was very good to hear.

Simon Harris, Tánaiste Minister for Finance yesterday, as he was introducing the spring economic statement, he actually said in the context of the broader picture that we have to start taking action not just to help people in the here and now on energy prices, but to get off fossil fuels.

So he said it, he reiterated the government's position, but we need to see the action.

The climate action plan is four months late.

Where's the plan?