What would you change legally if you were in charge?

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo · 27-12-2018 06:21AM #1

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 · 27-12-2018 06:37AM

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 · 27-12-2018 06:48AM

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 · 27-12-2018 07:48AM

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 · 27-12-2018 09:00AM

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 · 27-12-2018 09:24AM

Cap social welfare at 4 children

Atoms for Peace · 27-12-2018 09:30AM

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 · 27-12-2018 09:32AM

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 · 27-12-2018 09:33AM

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 · 27-12-2018 09:34AM

lawred2 wrote: »

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

Oh yeah, consecutive is what I meant!

jamesbere · 27-12-2018 09:34AM

I'd legally change my underwear

27-12-2018 09:36AM

Equal rights for single fathers.

27-12-2018 09:44AM

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

Nekarsulm · 27-12-2018 10:02AM

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. · 27-12-2018 10:19AM

4 day week.

Deebles McBeebles · 27-12-2018 10:21AM

hurler32 wrote: »

Cap social welfare at 4 children

You're being generous at that.

Harry Palmr · 27-12-2018 10:22AM

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

Retail sales of alcohol from 9 am.

EPAndlee · 27-12-2018 10:24AM

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

Outlaw Pete · 27-12-2018 10:32AM

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 · 27-12-2018 11:14AM

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

Dakota Dan · 27-12-2018 11:19AM

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 · 27-12-2018 11:20AM

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Oh yeah, consecutive is what I meant!

We have that to

Dakota Dan · 27-12-2018 11:21AM

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 · 27-12-2018 11:24AM

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 · 27-12-2018 11:27AM

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 · 27-12-2018 11:29AM

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 · 27-12-2018 11:29AM

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 · 27-12-2018 11:31AM

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 · 27-12-2018 11:33AM

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 · 27-12-2018 11:36AM

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 · 27-12-2018 11:38AM

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.

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