Listening to @NTBreakfast I hear the argument being made that there is nothing to be achieved by the Dail coming back from their holidays to reconvene. I strongly disagree; if they’re stuck for ideas than can start by repealing the legislation that has meant people have had to build new ‘green’ homes in rural Ireland without any capacity to heat them with timber/turf or diesel. They can immediately repeal all the ‘green’ taxes on the diesel we are having to run our generators on. They can put pressure on insurance companies to expedite payments of legitimate claims for storm damage. They can allocate resources so that the Garda can surge resources into the affected areas to prevent burglaries given that no alarm systems are going to be working properly. Then there’s the matter of the power, water and mobile communications…