Letter to the Editor: Green chorus are vocal but in the minority

Politicians of the main parties — including Leo Varadkar and Micheál Martin — were quick to jump on the “green bandwagon”, even before the full results of the recent elections became known, by intimating that voters had unanimously signalled that they wanted carbon taxes raised and other green initiatives implemented asap.

If the smart pundits care to calculate, the Green Party got around 9% of the vote, which does not give any Government a mandate to pander to the verbosity of Eamon Ryan and his ilk, by squeezing those of us who can ill afford to pay the cost of saving the planet from our own limited resources, while trying to stay warm during our miserably cold and damp Irish winters.