Green Party | Business Post

Analysis: Darragh O’Brien aims to end ‘free shot’ for planning objectors with ‘radical’ bill

It is a myth that planning process delays are the key cause of the housing crisis but big projects have been stalled by objections, writes Michael Brennan

Non-commercial LNG facility part of energy security framework options - Eamon Ryan

It comes as An Bord Pleanála denied the planning application of Shannon LNG in Co. Kerry for a €650 million LNG and energy park development

People who do not pay TV licence fee ‘should be prosecuted’, says Green Minister Ossian Smyth

Broadcaster Ivan Yates warns Montrose risks “going bust” by Christmas

‘Husbands and wives often disagree’ - says Green Minister after TD husband slams end of eviction ban

Eamon Ryan advises Taoiseach against calling autumn 2024 election

Changes to constituency boundaries have left Ryan’s Green Party in difficulty facing into next election

Planned ‘second carbon tax’ will add 10 per cent to energy bills

New renewable heat rule will require energy firms to use a certain volume of biogas in their supply to customers

Climate & Environment

Daniel Murray: Being anti-green and populist are central to new rural party’s identity

It’s nearly 60 years since Clann na Talmhan was dissolved but there could be up to three new rural blocs contesting the next general election

Elaine Byrne: Politicians beware, tinkering with the electoral system is likely to backfire

Darragh O’Brien’s suggestion that by-elections should be replaced by a European substiture list model may make sense – but history shows that voters may not agree

Coalition kaleidoscope: Sinn Féin’s route to government hinges on who will share power with it

The party is unlikely to win a majority and with attitudes hardening within Fianna Fáil to doing a deal, it may find itself turning to a multitude of potential partners

Taoiseach confident that current coalition could be re-elected in next general election

Leo Varadkar says there is ‘a very good chance’ Fine Gael’s coalition with Fianna Fáil and the Green Party could return to government

Matt Cooper: Rail review puts us on right track – but some fear Greens are taking us down wrong road

Many in the main government parties are suspicious that their coalition partners are trying to shift the balance away from driving to public transport

Green Party opposition threatens €1.3bn Shannon-Dublin water pipeline

TDs question whether proposed pipeline would lead to further ‘lopsided’ development in the country

Neasa Hourigan slams Tánaiste’s ‘sham’ security forum

Green Party TD has questioned what Micheál Martin is ‘playing at’

Green Party celebrates victory over Fine Gael on facial recognition technology

Helen McEntee has put an end to the coalition row by announcing that she move forward with the garda bodycam bill without the inclusion of facial recognition technology

Shane Coleman: ‘Farmers hate them, the working class think they’re shite’ – it’s tough being a Green

Languishing in the polls, as a party they are seen as ‘transfer-toxic’, but the reality is that, unpalatable though it may be, the logic of their agenda is inarguable

Barryroe blames Eamon Ryan for cancellation of plans to raise up to €20 million

The firm had announced plans to raise the capital in April, but said a move by Minister for the Environment has stymied it

Greens to continue work on EU nature restoration as row with farmers rumbles on

Some politicians and farming groups have labelled the proposals a ‘land grab’ but Greens minister Roderic O’Gorman tells the Business Post the move is ‘an attempt to halt the decades of decline and destruction of nature’

Climate & Environment

Green minister Ossian Smyth complains of ‘horrible conservative scaremongering’ on EU nature law

The TD for Dun Laoghaire said he was “disappointed” with the European People’s Party, which is the European affiliate of Fine Gael

‘Disgraceful behaviour’: Dáil suspended as rural independents turn on Green agriculture minister

Green Party minister and independent rural TDs debate on new nature restoration law ends in acrimony

Climate & Environment

Greens want to pay farmers if they return their land to nature

Environment minister pushes for use of budget surplus to restore biodiversity and rewet peatlands, while EU accused of ‘land grab’ over nature targets proposal