Oisín Coughlan

That doesn't really, isn't very surprising, given what we've seen in recent times.

But overall, it's 56% saying we're not doing enough and only 21% saying we're doing too much.

OK, so when we look at, because the impacts of what's been happening in the Middle East have been felt just about everywhere.

How do we stack up in the European context in relation to renewable energy use?

How are we doing on the league table?

So on electricity, we're doing quite well, or we certainly were doing quite well.

Back in 2010, we set a target to get 40% of electricity from renewables by 2020, and we achieved that, but it's kind of stalled since then.

Onshore, demand has gone up a lot, partly because of data centres, or largely because of data centres, and the renewables are only just keeping pace with it.

And offshore hasn't started yet.

But on the rest of the things we use energy for, so that's transport, so cars and trucks, and home heating, we're not doing anything like as well as the rest of Europe.

So overall, we still basically, 80% of our energy is imported fossil fuels.

And in the rest of Europe, that's more like 50%.

So that's where the real challenge is.

As we know, home heating and transport.

I'm reminded here by a listener who says many people don't have the finances to upgrade their homes.

And we know that the government has a retrofitting grant system in place.

But this is bigger than this, really, isn't it?

This is about an overall strategy to put in place...

structures so that we break the link between fossil fuels and what we use in our homes.

Yes, and to be fair to the government, they've done some good things on the retrofitting.