What would you change legally if you were in charge?

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

I'd change the law;

put draconian laws in place for online companies tracking/surveilling us
make the defacto age allowed online be 16
to decriminalise drugs (and let selling weed happen in shops)
make family court have a default 50/50 position
euthanasia
not have minimum pricing on alcohol
let Uber drivers exist here
make our libel laws far softer



Yours???

Pkiernan

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

I'd change the law;

put draconian laws in place for online companies tracking/surveilling us
make the defacto age allowed online be 16
to decriminalise drugs (and let selling weed happen in shops)
make family court have a default 50/50 position
euthanasia
not have minimum pricing on alcohol
let Uber drivers exist here
make our libel laws far softer



Yours???

Ban 12 year olds from posting in AH.

Raheem Euro

An extra fifteen bank holidays.
A maximum price on alcohol (set to the current minimum price)
Offer redundancy packages to anyone in HSE or Health Se tor that is in an administrative, clerical or office role or who is long term sick.
Cap welfare benefits per household.
Make it a capital offence to be ryan tubridy.

Fiery mutant

Rescind the ridiculous notion that travelers are an ‘ethnic minority’.
Have a fining system for judges who consistently release repeat offenders.
Increased sentences for repeat offenders.

Trigger Happy

Mandatory sentencing minimums (with needed new penal infrastructure). Concurrent sentencing.
Social welfare reduces over time. No more people spending a life on the dole.
Jail for false insurance claims.
Points on your licence for not using motorway lanes correctly.

hurler32

Cap social welfare at 4 children

Atoms for Peace

A quota system for refugees by country of origin and their ability to integrate into Irish society, an independent ombudsman to scrutinise the legal system, decrease the thresold for income tax but prioritize taxpayers for public services and housing,

lawred2

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Mandatory sentencing minimums (with needed new penal infrastructure). Concurrent sentencing.
Social welfare reduces over time. No more people spending a life on the dole.
Jail for false insurance claims.
Points on your licence for not using motorway lanes correctly.

We already have concurrent sentencing.. presume you meant the opposite

The J Stands for Jay

Everyone is given 100 points at birth. Various crimes have point values that reduce your balance. Get to zero points and you're euthanised. Preferably by being fitted out of a giant canon.

Trigger Happy

lawred2 wrote: »

We already have concurrent sentencing.. presume you meant the opposite

Oh yeah, consecutive is what I meant!

jamesbere

I'd legally change my underwear

2011

Equal rights for single fathers.

Start chipping away at our entitlement culture, both at top (justice system) and bottom (those churning out children without responsibility).

Nekarsulm

Make Trespass a criminal offense.

Currently, any number of people can invade your property/land, and theres nothing you can do until they commit a crime.

backspin.

4 day week.

Deebles McBeebles

hurler32 wrote: »

Cap social welfare at 4 children

You're being generous at that.

Harry Palmr

Turn left on a red light where safe to do so.

Retail sales of alcohol from 9 am.

EPAndlee

I'd start thinning out the population, there's too many people

Outlaw Pete

Ban:

Solvents from cleaning products,
Hazardous pesticides, plastic bottles,
Non-organic farming,
Make up & perfume,
Speed bumps,
Mini roundabouts and....

...introduce the death penalty for anyone that kicks the back of seats in the cinema.

Gingham1

130kmph speed limit on motorway.
Remove year identifier from number plates.

Dakota Dan

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Ban:

Solvents from cleaning products,
Hazardous pesticides, plastic bottles,
Non-organic farming,
Make up & perfume,
Speed bumps,
Mini roundabouts and....

...introduce the death penalty for anyone that kicks the back of seats in the cinema.

I with you on that last one but if you want all organic farming you’ll be paying a lot more for food.

Try_harder

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Oh yeah, consecutive is what I meant!

We have that to

Dakota Dan

EPAndlee wrote: »

I'd start thinning out the population, there's too many people

There were a lot more people here before the famine also the population of Europe is dropping.

igCorcaigh

UBI
Parenting courses for all new parents
A serious go at the profits of corporations, but I don't know how
Lace the communion wafers with LSD
Tax deductions or pay for volunteer workers

lawred2

igCorcaigh wrote: »

UBI
Parenting courses for all new parents
A serious go at the profits of corporations, but I don't know how
Lace the communion wafers with LSD
Tax deductions or pay for volunteer workers

Some waste of money that parenting course would be..

Vast majority of Irish people do perfectly fine without such prescriptive nonsense.

igCorcaigh

lawred2 wrote: »

Some waste of money that parenting course would be..

Vast majority of Irish people do perfectly fine without such prescriptive nonsense.

I dunno, it could prevent a lot of costly problems.
Have you seen the junk that people feed their kids? Never mind the damaging verbal abuse.

Deebles McBeebles

Dakota Dan wrote: »

There were a lot more people here before the famine also the population of Europe is dropping.

The population of the world is rising rapidly and becoming unsustainable but sure as long as Europe's population drops slightly.

lawred2

igCorcaigh wrote: »

I dunno, it could prevent a lot of costly problems.
Have you seen the junk that people feed their kids? Never mind the damaging verbal abuse.

So because there are some crap parents (as there always have been and always will be) all parents will be required to do some lowest common denominator course?

I'd prefer a licence to breed to be honest..

igCorcaigh

lawred2 wrote: »

So because there are some crap parents (as there always have been and always will be) all parents be forced to do some lowest common denominator course?

I'd prefer a licence to breed to be honest..

Well, then a lot of parents would be in jail and kids taken into care. Anyway, good parents will always benefit from support. I like the sound of it. Community based and light touch.

lawred2

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Well, then a lot of parents would be in jail and kids taken into care. Anyway, good parents will always benefit from support. I like the sound of it. Community based and light touch.

Neither will happen

Harry Palmr

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

The population of the world is rising rapidly and becoming unsustainable but sure as long as Europe's population drops slightly.

It's not, it was but it's not any longer. Fertility rates have crashed in the last 15 years.

Declining fertility rates around the world should be cause for celebration, not alarm, a leading expert has said, warning that the focus on boosting populations was outdated and potentially bad for women.

Recent figures revealed that, globally, women now have on average 2.4 children in their lifetime a measure known as total fertility rate (TFR). But while in some countries that figure is far higher – in Niger it is more than seven – in almost half of countries, including the UK, Russia and Japan, it has fallen to below two.

Such declines have been met with alarm, with some warning that the “baby bust” puts countries at risk of a depopulation disaster.

But Sarah Harper, former director of the Royal Institution and an expert on population change, working at the University of Oxford, said that far from igniting alarm and panic falling total fertility rates were to be embraced, and countries should not worry if their population is not growing.

igCorcaigh

Wealth redistribution and women's liberation will halt population growth and advance social equality

...Ghost...

Decriminalise cannabis (ps - I never have or will use it).

Introduce 10 year firearms licenses and have a centralised unit for firearms licensing.

Gender right across the board (real genders). Fathers rights to be equal to mothers for a start. No Gender pay Gap....assuming equal work for equal pay.

Ban Gender Quotas and Gender assistance programmes. Female only workshops in colleges for example.

Ban councils from using the "local needs" rule for housing.

Introduce a license free, speed restriction for personal mobility vehicles, such as electric scooters. Anything restricted to under 25kph can be considered the same as a bicycle.

Mandatory use of helmets and hi-viz vest for all cyclists and other unlicensed public road users, including skate-boards, roller blades, scooters.

Mandatory criminal charges for people who waste Gardai time and give false statements.

Mandatory road safety inductions in lieu of penalty points for minor road traffic offences (first time offences only).

Ban the sidelight position on switches on vehicles, they're parking lights not "secondary headlights", so the switch has only headlights on or off or parking lights when the key is out.
Turn left at a red light as already posted, longer amber and zero all red phase in sequence.
Allow child benefit for only the first two children and introduce UBI (universal basic income).
Charge employers a "migrant tax", to encourage them to employ locals first and to stop the importation of cheap labour.
Redesignate Travellers as Irish (no special status).
Force manufacturers to label their products with the design life and ease of serviceability of the product (how long it is designed to work for before you are expected to dump it and can you repair it)
Ban carbon tax and replace it with a pollution tax that factors in all the "real" pollutants the product produces (car exhaust gasses for example, low CO2 but high fine particulates).
Add a "single use" tax to products that are designed to be thrown away after one use.

Wanderer2010

Anyone found guilty of a drink driving or speeding offense banned for life from driving, absolutely no exceptions. My blood boils when I hear on the news "...got 2 years suspended for dangerous driving causing death. They had 100 previous convictions...". All these judges with their soft sentences cause untold mayhem in this country.

igCorcaigh

Replace carbon tax with fee and dividend

Dakota Dan

Dakota Dan wrote: »

There were a lot more people here before the famine also the indigenous population of Europe is dropping.

fyp, the falls in population are being hidden by the mass importation of "units" from the third world, in the minds of the elite, growth is non-negotiable.

Plumbthedepths

EPAndlee wrote:

I'd start thinning out the population, there's too many people

You volunteering to go first?

mikemac2

I’d keep the jobseekers budget the same. Yep a proposal that costs nothing extra

If you lose your job and have your “stamps” you get 70% of your salary for maybe 6 months and we’ll drop to 50% and maybe after a year you are going to the standard rate

If you have no history of contributions at all you get the standard rate and after 1 year you are cut off if not working or in eduction. It will not be possible to spend years on jobseekers. I know I know there is Seetec but still people remain on it for years

This system already exists in much of Europe, shocking I know :eek:

igCorcaigh

Make civics, home economics, nutrition and first aid core subjects on the educational curriculum.

Drop Irish and English in secondary schools. Shakespeare is not a life skill.

igCorcaigh

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Make civics, home economics, nutrition and first aid core subjects on the educational curriculum.

Drop Irish and English in secondary schools. Shakespeare is not a life skill.

But drafting a good CV is.

igCorcaigh

mikemac2 wrote: »

I’d keep the jobseekers budget the same. Yep a proposal that costs nothing extra

If you lose your job and have your “stamps” you get 70% of your salary for maybe 6 months and we’ll drop to 50% and maybe after a year you are doing to the standard rate

If you have no history of contributions at all you get the standard rate and after 1 year you are cut off if no working or in eduction

This system already exists in much of Europe, shocking I know :eek:

Yes, and maintain jsa for first month of employment.

igCorcaigh

[Deleted User] wrote: »

But drafting a good CV is.

Agreed.

Deebles McBeebles

Harry Palmr wrote: »

It's not, it was but it's not any longer. Fertility rates have crashed in the last 15 years.

Fertility rates and population growth are not the same thing.

"Population in the world is currently (2018) growing at a rate of around 1.09% per year (down from 1.12% in 2017 and 1.14% in 2016). The current average population increase is estimated at 83 million people per year.
Annual growth rate reached its peak in the late 1960s, when it was at around 2%. The rate of increase has nearly halved since then, and will continue to decline in the coming years. It is estimated to reach 1% by 2023, less than 0.5% by 2052, and 0.25% in 2076 (a yearly addition of 27 million people to a population of 10.7 billion). In 2100, it should be only 0.09%, or an addition of only 10 million people to a total population of 11.2 billion."

Good news is that by the time its slows to 0.09% the earth will be uninhabitable to humans and all the animals and insects will be gone.

mvl

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

A quota system for refugees by country of origin and their ability to integrate into Irish society

... do you mean refugees or migrants ? and what is current refugees number here ?

Dakota Dan

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

Fertility rates and population growth are not the same thing.

"Population in the world is currently (2018) growing at a rate of around 1.09% per year (down from 1.12% in 2017 and 1.14% in 2016). The current average population increase is estimated at 83 million people per year.
Annual growth rate reached its peak in the late 1960s, when it was at around 2%. The rate of increase has nearly halved since then, and will continue to decline in the coming years. It is estimated to reach 1% by 2023, less than 0.5% by 2052, and 0.25% in 2076 (a yearly addition of 27 million people to a population of 10.7 billion). In 2100, it should be only 0.09%, or an addition of only 10 million people to a total population of 11.2 billion."

Good news is that by the time its slows to 0.09% the earth will be uninhabitable to humans and all the animals and insects will be gone.

You are a true prophet of doom.

Montgolfier

Half the number of politicians in the dail,
Get rid of paye diy tax
Everyone pays social security for mostly free health care
Death penalty back
Assisted dying for terminal I'll patients

Feck it I should just move to France

Deebles McBeebles

Dakota Dan wrote: »

You are a true prophet of doom.

A fair point. Shame is, its also realistic.

Simple_Simone

I'd build that prison out in Thornton Hall that Mad Dog McDowell purchased for a king's ransom. Then judges could sentence skangers to prison with some degree of confidence that they'd be kept there. It's already cost the taxpayers over €50 million.

https://www.buzz.ie/news/empty-prison-site-costs-taxpayer-e51-million-298477

Aside As a NUI graduate, I find it incredible that a life-long spoofer/windbag like McDowell was elected to the Senate by my fellow graduates.

"The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Michael McDowell said plans are 'definitely on track' for building work to start on the new prison complex at Thornton in north Co Dublin in March 2007."

P_1

UBI
4 Day week
Legalise cannabis so people know what they're taking
Restaurants must publish nutritional information on menus
Directly elected mayors for Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick and Waterford
Euthanasia with solid consent checks
Reduce our dependency on private cars by building railways between Cork and Limerick, Athenry and Sligo via Knock, Sligo and Derry, Dublin and Navan.
Seize church assets to pay the abuse bill
Massively revamp the property tax so its based on the owners and use of the property
Rationalise our tax system
A .5% levy on all transactions carried out by mncs
End the liquid ban on flying
Congestion charges in the major cities once pt is in place
Seperate church and state for good
Revamp how Irish is thought, put more of an emphasis on being able to speak it first and then move onto grammar rules and analysing poetry
Charge the carbon tax but invest it in pt and clean energy solutions rather than paying eu fines

eagle eye

No cash for Social welfare recipients. They all get what they should be buying with their money.
I'd have five year sentences for anybody caught trading these items for cash.
If you come live in this country from abroad and you are on social welfare for two years you get turfed out of the country.
No ethnic standing for any Irish born person.
Freedom of speech for all. Jail for anybody telling you that you are not allowed air your views because they are not PC.
All the following can leave the country or spend the rest of their lives behind bars. Margaret Cash, Leo Varadkar, Mary Lou, Michael Martin, Mick Wallace, Ryan Tubridy, Bono and multiple media personalities who are telling people how they should think.
That'll do for a start.