In between Tuesday’s Budget day in the Dáil and Friday’s war-time meeting of EU energy ministers in Brussels, Green Party leader Eamon Ryan sat down with The Currency to discuss the links between the two. The bulk of the interview focused on the portions of the phenomenal €11 billion budget expansion secured by the two portfolios under his remit – Environment and Climate Action on the one hand, and Transport on the other hand. But in the immediate, after Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe said in his budget speech that Ireland aimed to take part in an EU-wide tax on…

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