If you could get the government to change 1 thing about Ireland what would it be?

pgj2015

For me it would be to jail these people who set up car accidents and then make a fake whiplash claim. you see it in the papers a lot, usually a 2-4 people involved. They set up a crash, then all claim a fake whiplash injury, bring an insurance company to court sometime looking for 60,000 euro each, so 240,000 euro between the 4 of them. The judge throws the case out but for some reason they don't face jail time for what has been established is a fraudulent case.

same goes for anyone looking to make easy money on such cases, people who throw themselves on the floor of a supermarket etc, a few years in jail is the only thing that will stop this in my opinion.

Strip an itinerant community of ethnic minority status and make them accountable for their actions.

the beer revolu

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Strip an itinerant community of ethnic minority status and make them accountable for their actions.

If travellers aren't accountable for their actions, why are they so highly represented in prison statistics?

Pherekydes

Yeah, change the shape of the country. Make it a perfect square.

Zebra3

Have a number of TDs elected through a list system.

Homelander

A justice system where people appear before court with 100+ previous convictions and get another useless suspended sentence on top of 100 more.

nthclare

Accountability and more people like Pierce Doherty, I'm not interested in his political leanings, but he's a good man and can stand up to the narcissist's such as CEOs and bell ends who think they're untouchable...

Principles before party's...

freshpopcorn

I'd create a remote to turn Mary Lou down a bit!

freshpopcorn

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I'd create a remote to turn Mary Lou down a bit!

Others just change the station.

Giraffe Box

The Government.

Ban rugby....make hurling mandatory 1 hour a week minimum in all schools

harry Bailey esq

Pherekydes wrote: »

Yeah, change the shape of the country. Make it a perfect square.

That would look quite snappy, also move it south/south west by 15 degrees.

Pauliedragon

the beer revolu wrote: »

If travellers aren't accountable for their actions, why are they so highly represented in prison statistics?

And yet over 100 breaking rules in Cork yesterday and cops directed traffic for them. Do you think that would happen at your funeral? Most of your friends/family wouldn't be allowed atend.

randd1

Have a two tier dole system.

€230 a week for people who want to work and are willing to do two 8 hour days a week in various temporary employment schemes while they're on the dole (cleaning up streets, help the council with maintain public buildings, help clean hospitals & schools, work on filling in potholes on the roads, planting flowers around towns, helping out in public run creches etc). They get the other three days to source a job, and the few days working would also go on their work record with a full reference from the social welfare Dept about their work performance.

€120 max for those who have no intention of working.

freshpopcorn

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Others just change the station.

I'd also ban all those who sit around in the Dail who do nothing but whinge. So, I'd be rid of her!

murpho999

The system of government.

Dail should be for national politics not local. So the likes of the Healy-Raes looking after Kerry should be doing that through their local councils who would have more power and budgets.

Also minsters should be chosen from outside the Oireachtas. So you could have qualified economists as Ministers for finance and other experts in other portfolios.
What qualifications do the likes of Shane Ross or Simon Harris have for their ministeries and how can they move to other portfolios in a reshuffle?
They could then operate outside the sphere of politics and with the view of doing a good job rather than being elected.

Makes no sense to me as appointing people with no relevant experience or qualifications does not happen in the real world.

corner of hells

randd1 wrote: »

Have a two tier dole system.

€230 a week for people who want to work and are willing to do two 8 hour days a week in various temporary employment schemes while they're on the dole (cleaning up streets, help the council with maintain public buildings, help clean hospitals & schools, work on filling in potholes on the roads, planting flowers around towns, helping out in public run creches etc). They get the other three days to source a job, and the few days working would also go on their work record with a full reference from the social welfare Dept about their work performance.

€120 max for those who have no intention of working.

Like CE scheme?

Billgirlylegs

Teach cyclists some manners and what 2 metres distance looks like

Clear them off footpaths, pedestrian areas and out of public parks

suicide_circus

job seekers based on previous contributions.

term limits for public representatives.

chain gangs for people with 20+ convictions. orange jump suits, chains, digging ditches etc.

an ethos of personal responsibility in the courts.

decriminalization of drugs possession.

randd1

corner of hells wrote: »

Like CE scheme?

Kind of.

The Bishop Basher

Decriminalise Weed.

Your Face

Ban everything I don't like.

JohnnyFlash

Photograph, fine, name and shame the fückers who let their dogs shïte on roads, paths, and in parks, and don’t clean up after them.

Montage of Feck

Reevaluate eugenics.

Lollipop95

Make rent more affordable, particularly in Dublin. For me, a lot of the jobs I would be interested in are in Dublin but the cost of living would not be sustainable long term for me. It’s interesting as I saw on Twitter this was a big reason many votes for Sinn Finn in the recent election

Thelonious Monk

Billgirlylegs wrote: »

Teach cyclists some manners and what 2 metres distance looks like

Clear them off footpaths, pedestrian areas and out of public parks

Lol, yes bikes are the real menace in society. I hope you enjoy all the new bike lanes being installed in Dublin and the hoards of people out on their bikes during lockdown and the many more who will commute on bike to avoid public transport.

Anyway I would love to see separated bike lines on most roads.

AndyBoBandy

Shut down RTÉ and rebuild it from the ground up, with 100% all new staff, all appointed by an independent interview panel, with no unions allowed.
maximum presenter salary €100,000
maximum management salary of €80,000 (no more than 10 managers on this salary the organisation)
located on a greenfield site somewhere in the midlands.

Neon_Lights

A harder stance on white collar crime and fraud.

Making public bodies a more efficient vessel for the use of tax funds, they seem to be lighting money on fire.

Killing off the cushy civil service job, which hold our public services back due to laziness, by having better operational metrics to cut out the chaff. They are there to serve the people granted but there's no rush about it.

kenmc

Get religion out of schools. Most hobbies need to be done in your own time and at your own cost. Why should indoctrination get a free pass to the most susceptible and absorbent minds?

bellylint

Billgirlylegs wrote: »

Teach cyclists some manners and what 2 metres distance looks like

Clear them off footpaths, pedestrian areas and out of public parks

so we let them walk and be absolved of people just ignoring social distancing rules?

Teach them some manners? well aint you the right cnut we need. It's all them damndable cyclists that are spreading it these days. Grow up.

blinding

Make the country as big as all of North America. Spread people out a bit, for fooks sake, I am sick looking at most of ye !

Rodin

Enforce all the rules and legislation already in place to the letter.

I'd reintroduce wolves.

Thelonious Monk

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I'd reintroduce wolves.

we need forests first

AndyBoBandy

build a time machine, go back to the 60's/70's/80's and get all the housing/road planners in a room and explain to them what population expansion is, and don't let them leave the room until they've bought into the idea of forward thinking...

Like not allowing housing be built on floodplains or in random pieces of land in the middle of nowhere that will cost a fortune in the future to connect up to amenities like water/sewage/telecommunications infrastructure...., or that roundabouts aren't the best idea for motorway on/off ramps, and while on the subject of motorways, when building the M50, whatever the volume of traffic it's being planned for, multiply in by a factor of 10 - it will save us in the long run.

blinding

Ask America and Canada to take us all in. That would confuse the Unionists ! ! !

jonnny68

For me it would be a newly formed government would be given 12 months term, after that the public would vote for them to either continue as they are doing a hood job or another election, i guarantee you the political parasites would be quaking and would actually do what they were elected to do.

the beer revolu

jonnny68 wrote: »

For me it would be a newly formed government would be given 12 months term, after that the public would vote for them to either continue as they are doing a hood job or another election, i guarantee you the political parasites would be quaking and would actually do what they were elected to do.

This would only make the TDs fixing the potholes in their locales more of a thing.

Skylinehead

Take all the things from them ones.

Give all the things to me.

WesternZulu

jonnny68 wrote: »

For me it would be a newly formed government would be given 12 months term, after that the public would vote for them to either continue as they are doing a hood job or another election, i guarantee you the political parasites would be quaking and would actually do what they were elected to do.

You can say goodbye to any long term projects/planning then.
Why plan anything when more than likely you won't be around to implement it never mind be in office when it's finished.

Blaze420

Remove the ethnic status of a certain group and then hammer the absolute **** out of them with every letter of the law going.

Ban cyclists from all roads with high density traffic volumes.

Thelonious Monk

Blaze420 wrote: »

Remove the ethnic status of a certain group and then hammer the absolute **** out of them with every letter of the law going.

Ban cyclists from all roads with high density traffic volumes.

I'm afraid you're only going to see more and more roadspace given to bicycles in future and less given to cars in Dublin anyway

Blaze420

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

I'm afraid you're only going to see more and more roadspace given to bicycles in future and less given to cars in Dublin anyway

I don't live in Dublin, and no I don't think you are correct - motor tax is a pretty big pot of money to be pissing away. What do cyclists contribute?

Edit: A google search says the motor tax pot is about 6.2 billion - do entertain us and tell us how the government will recoup that when there's nothing but MAMILS on the roads?

crossman47

Neon_Lights wrote: »

A harder stance on white collar crime and fraud.

Making public bodies a more efficient vessel for the use of tax funds, they seem to be lighting money on fire.

Killing off the cushy civil service job, which hold our public services back due to laziness, by having better operational metrics to cut out the chaff. They are there to serve the people granted but there's no rush about it.

I suppose you'll exempt the civil servants in Revenue, Health and Social Protection who have worked over and beyond the call of duty to implement measures to deal with Covid 19!

iamstop

None of this 'Be a TD for a few years - get a pension for life' carry on. They should get out what they put in, like the rest of us proles.

Thelonious Monk

Blaze420 wrote: »

I don't live in Dublin, and no I don't think you are correct - motor tax is a pretty big pot of money to be pissing away. What do cyclists contribute?

Edit: A google search says the motor tax pot is about 6.2 billion - do entertain us and tell us how the government will recoup that when there's nothing but MAMILS on the roads?

Roads etc are built out of general taxation, most cyclists pay income tax and many pay motor tax.
Well for one we'd have a much healthier population, you don't see fat people in Holland or Denmark.
What's your beef with bicycles?

Blaze420

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Roads etc are built out of general taxation, most cyclists pay income tax and many pay motor tax.
Well for one we'd have a much healthier population, you don't see fat people in Holland or Denmark.
What's your beef with bicycles?

Still doesn't answer my question - you drive motorists off the road, then what is replacing the lost finances in the motor tax? Nothing to do with health or body size - you are endorsing something which will have a detrimental effect on the nations finances.

dundalkfc10

Themselves out of Govt

TheValeyard

Exile Michael Nugent, John Waters, Gemma O 'Doherty, Danny Healy Rae, Aodhan o riordan, Ruairi Quinn, Ciara Kelly to Spike Island

Thelonious Monk

Blaze420 wrote: »

Still doesn't answer my question - you drive motorists off the road, then what is replacing the lost finances in the motor tax? Nothing to do with health or body size - you are endorsing something which will have a detrimental effect on the nations finances.

Ok then we'll try and encourage everyone who cycles to drive instead

Gamer Bhoy 89

Outlaw alcohol purchasing on all levels for a whole month. Not just closing pubs, but removing all sale of all alcohol of any kind completely, for a whole four weeks.... Just to see the resulting behaviour

Purely scientific, of course.