If you could write a new law, amend an existing one or completely abolish one .......

Abolish: 1) Romeo and Juliet law in Ireland where a boy can be prosecuted for sex even though he would be the exact same age as a girl.

2) Law preventing death penalty. Instead of life incarceration or punishments, we would try to rehabilitate individuals with temporary restrictions after they leave prison that would be lifted when proven beyond doubt that they've changed. People who continuously reoffend would be executed swiftly. No appeals. No waste of money. Just quick and painless. (Probably have to leave EU for this)

Amend: Laws on legality of LSD and other psychedelics. Remove them from being a controlled substance.

Add: 1) Doctors can't refuse elective sterilization without good reason for males/females where the individual health, financial, or character would have a significant negative impact on the child.

2) Establish a government branch that deals with social issues specifically in criminal and psychiatric area of an individuals life.

Put car tax, insurance and NCT charges onto the price of petrol - every driver would then automatically pay them, and the army of civil servants and gardaí who spend their time administering them and inspecting compliance would be released for other work.

End the custom of allowing private cars to park on the roadside - this would release around a third of most roads which could be rebuilt as separated cycle lanes; as more people cycled, rates of obesity, diabetes, hypertension and heart disease would drop, saving a fortune for the health service, and pollution would drop, cutting the country's carbon footprint. With separated lanes, children could cycle to school safely, making them less dependent and more self-reliant, and healthier.

Decriminalise (not legalise) all drugs on the Portuguese model https://mic.com/articles/110344/14-years-after-portugal-decriminalized-all-drugs-here-s-what-s-happening#.tEcpUpymN

Benchmark all politicians' and civil servants' wages against the average industrial wage (and have the wages go up and down with this average). Benchmark politicians' mileage allowances against the norm in the private sector. Allow only one pension to be paid to any politician. Disallow paid private sector work for ex-politicians - so they can contribute their expertise, but not get paid for it.

Build lots and lots of council housing, of high quality; require that 10% of this housing be lived in by politicians, so that they would live the same lives as normal people, and the laws and decisions they make would serve normal people well.

Immediately hold a referendum on the 8th Amendment, so that people could decide whether they want a woman and a pregnancy to have equal rights to live.

Require that all votes - referenda and elections - be held on a Sunday so that schools don't have to be closed down for a day and teachers paid for a day of not teaching, and so that people whose vote is registered "back home" can travel home to Donegal or west Cork to vote.

Institute a year of 'National Service' after school and before further education, in which young people would devote a year to organised work for their country - litter collection, working in hospitals, fixing potholes, driving school buses, working with homeless people…

Institute an apprenticeship system, bringing in highly trained German and East European tradespeople to train apprentices in electrics, plumbing, carpentry and building. Make a basic knowledge of these skills a school subject.

End the nonsense of people being treated as 'self-employed' by greedy companies when they are obviously employees.

Make it a sacking offence for a civil servant to ignore a ringing phone, or to treat members of the public discourteously.