Right now we're going to be putting carbon taxes in place.
While we won't know the circumstances of people with regard to price in the cost of
that, simply that's simply. Peadar is sticking his his head in the sand.
Here we have, we have three interlocking crisis.
We've had climate crisis.
And it's not long ago that we had the Fridays for Future young people
on the street telling us we're doing nothing about climate.
Peadar wants to dismantle that process of using the money raised
from carbon prices to drive changes in people's people's homes
so that they can change is happening already.
Because people can see, you know people will be forced to change.
People will want to change.
Is it not a little bit odd to be talking about bringing in
measures to help people deal with the rising cost of fuel
and at the same time putting an extra charge and fuel?
The reality is we're facing.
We're facing a climate crisis which we have to respond to, so we have
to help people to make those changes that money is going into it.
We are facing a crisis of refugees so next week.
No doubt how they will be looking for another
mini budget to deal with accommodation.
And the following week we'll be looking at What are we going
to do about the education needs and the of of people coming
from Ukraine and the extra language support they need?
We have to be recognised that we're facing a multiple crisis here.
We have to select the interventions to make sure that they are the most effective.
And that and that is what Human Ryan was articulated.
It was.
It was a tax surplus and we will need those surpluses we have.
We have by the end of next April.
By the end of next month, we will have 14 days.
We will have 40,000 refugees coming from Ukraine by the end of next month.
We have to.
You will.
You will be the first to go in and say Where is the government's
plan for accommodating those refugees you'll be wanting?
You'll be asking how our schools going to cope, who have now these Children with
language needs and we have to be prepared for each of those challenges.
You're not recognised that we are recognised.
We are recognised.
People are getting bills that they can't actually pay.
Kids are going to bed hungry at the moment.
People are not heating their homes.
People can't afford the fuel to put into the cars,
to get to work, to earn a living at the moment.
So this crisis is real and it's now and it is real.
And what the response of the government has been far too low priced.
The ESRI has the crime.
The actual figures have shown crisis.
Only a quarter of the actual cost by the inflation has been the crisis and climate
is real as well, and you want to deny it and not deliver the changes.
I'm not a crisis of refugees.
Coming to this country is real too.
And this government has to be able to accommodate all of those prices.
Let me, you know, you shout me down, so I need
to get a little bit of chances articulated.
The whole purpose of a carbon tax is to reach a
price, to motivate people to move from that
I had the opportunity to We're already point.
But what what he is saying?
What Richard is saying is look, the government cannot
insulate against every single price rise.
It is not possible no government would be able to do it.
And no government is doing it across Europe because there
are so many other demands, absolutely government.
Nobody expects the government took measures.
Then do you think they should be introducing specifically? Specifically, there should
be a fall in the rate VAT to zero for a three month period to get people through this
period of time, and that should be cut in excise now for I would actually I couldn't
exercises its 88 €84 per 1000 litres at the moment is the excise on fuel.
I think they should actually get rid of that completely, which would alleviate
about €100 of a normal fill up the tank and that people have in their home,
Richard or any of these on the table or what is on the table.
Do you think for people who are hard pressed and are worried
tonight about, you know, paying future energy bills?
Well, I think, um, and Ryan articulated some of the changes we have to say.
We've we've three quarters of a million homes with smart metres and only
5% of those are using that facility to reduce their energy bills.
That is clearly a priority.
We also have a lot of people in low income needing to retrofit their homes
and we can accelerate that programme and that makes an impact we have.
The immediate is it is not going to help your bill next
month or the month after as it rules out it will.
We have many people thinking about electric vehicles and we've had support to local
authorities to put electric vehicle charging systems onto the streets.
Not one local authority has taken up that option, so we can accelerate those
because the things that will help people manage in a resilient way.
There are things that we need to invest in that is switching away
from the the fossil fuel use sharing vehicles we do, we have.
We can push accelerate delivery.
Sharing platforms is a very practical way of reducing 90% of the
car journeys are single person journeys, so we need to think creatively
and have selective measures to support people