Over the weekend, An Tánaiste and Minister for Finance Simon Harris floated the idea of one off payments towards environmentally friendly energy measures, such as heat pumps and efficient cars. The suggestion comes in the backdrop of a continuing global energy crisis that has seen oil prices rise to above one hundred dollars a barrel for much of the last two months.

Lisa Ryan is a Professor in Energy Economics at the UCD School of Economics and joins Shane to look at what sort of an impact any one off measures could have…