Ireland has the highest electricity prices in Europe and our gas prices are also well above the EU average. Ireland is also more dependent on fossil fuels than almost any other EU country and we import the vast majority of our fuel requirements. We are therefore very vulnerable to international energy crises.

Too often, the animals are considered to be things which they can exploit, kill, torture, by game, for show, by tradition or for the only pleasure of making suffer. It is time to envisage seriously a Regulation European on the Rights of the Animals for: - forbid and suppress very put to death, useless torment or ill-treatment inflic