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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.

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Rodin

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

[Deleted User]

I'd reintroduce wolves.

Thelonious Monk

Deleted User wrote: »

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.

Billgirlylegs

It doesn't bear thinking about.

Driving standards are low enough as it is without putting cyclists in cars.
Footpaths, pedestrianised areas and parks would be filled with cars.

Blaze420

Billgirlylegs wrote: »

It doesn't bear thinking about.

Driving standards are low enough as it is without putting cyclists in cars.
Footpaths, pedestrianised areas and parks would be filled with cars.

Red lights being run all over the place, driving around without headlights, wearing nothing but spandex shorts in the car.....**** that

[Deleted User]

Billgirlylegs wrote: »

Teach cyclists some manners and what 2 metres distance looks like

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

If only there was some way of getting these nasty bike menaces off footpaths, out of parks and pedestrian areas...

Like some sort of a lane they could go down where there won't be eejits walking in their way or illegally placing their carbon emitting lump of metal on?

But how would you do such a thing? Sounds unreasonable to expect the cleanest somewhat quick form of transport to made advantageous right?

I don't think the rules of the road are overly based on manners from what I've seen btw...

Thelonious Monk

Blaze420 wrote: »

Red lights being run all over the place, driving around without headlights, wearing nothing but spandex shorts in the car.....**** that

But they're harmles, when do cyclists ever harm anyone? I dont get the hate.

Blaze420

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

But they're harmles, when do cyclists ever harm anyone? I dont get the hate.

They aren’t harmless - half of them can’t obey traffic lights for a start. Then you have the dopey ***** who sit in the middle of a road lane swerving side to side, and with the ridiculous overtaking width now causing cars to travel into oncoming traffic to avoid them. Cycling 2-3 abreast on country roads forcing traffic in to ditches. That’s not to mention the pricks who cycle around at night with no lights and no high vis so avoiding them becomes pot luck. So yeah cyclists are nothing but a ****ing nuisance and won’t be anything but moving obstacles until a training and certification program is brought in to teach them how to behave on the roads.

Strumms

Gamer Bhoy 89 wrote: »

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.

I doubt it could or would have the desired effect. People would just stockpile the previous couple of months... supermarkets would make a killing, pubs would take a battering. Also drinking at home especially with family on anything approaching regularity isn’t that healthy.

Conall Cernach

Gamer Bhoy 89 wrote: »

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.

I could get a job as a tail gunner on a beer truck from Armagh to Monaghan.

Eggs For Dinner

the beer revolu wrote: »

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

They commit a higher proportion of the serious crimes, that's why more are in prison. However, it is the social crimes where they are given a free pass, is where the real problem lies

Zak Flaps

It's location.

Better Than Christ

Blaze420 wrote: »

Then you have the dopey ***** who sit in the middle of a road lane swerving side to side, and with the ridiculous overtaking width now causing cars to travel into oncoming traffic to avoid them.

I'd revoke the driving licences of idiots who don't realise that if you want to overtake a slower vehicle, you need to wait until there's no oncoming traffic.

Blaze420 wrote:

That’s not to mention the pricks who cycle around at night with no lights and no high vis so avoiding them becomes pot luck.

A similar proportion of cars go around with no lights, one light or only their DLRs. I'd argue that in both cases (whether it's a poorly illuminated car or cyclist), anyone who fails to avoid hitting them should probably either have their eyes checked or learn to drive at a speed appropriate to their ability to react to hazards.