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

Any crime that involved bodily harm, death by driving, serious robbery/theft (incl white collar) should get a year minimum in prison, no time off for good behaviour
No suspended sentences, or letting off because they are of good character.

And get rid of the court poor box. What has that got to do with the law?

In fairness, you’d see a whole lot less cars on the road if public transport was actually fit for purpose. The Luas sees the two lines interchangeable only at.....O Connell St. The Luas took almost 8 years from inception to the first scheduled departure.

In 2011 the Metro for Dublin was given the go ahead, as of now... 2027 is the expected operational date. From being rubber stamped to the first metro thats 16 fûcking years.

In the first part of 2019 Dublin bus were fined 165,000 euros for failing to meet punctuality targets. They were set low targets and failed to meet them.

Anyone that was long term unemployed but deemed to be medically fit to work, must send proof of a minimum 10 job applications per week to the social welfare office to indeed prove they are actually “job seeking” and continue same until they find work in order to receive payment.

MOD: let’s drop the bicycle vs car debate/argument please.

I can’t count to 1, so I’ve got a wee bit of a list

1. End lifetime tenancies for social housing; reviewed every two years, and if you’ve got too much space, you have no choice but to move into a smaller home. Anyone with two or more criminal convictions automatically lifetime barred from social housing (if you don’t want to make a meaningful contribution to society, you don’t get to benefit from it). If you live in social housing unless you’re retired, severely disabled or are caring for a severely disabled child, you must work at least 20 hours per week, either paid or voluntary (because I’m sick to death if my neighbours having parties 7 days a week and lying bed all day while I’m working). Priority on lists to essential workers, no right of refusal on location and no sale to tenants.

2. Anyone claiming dole must either be in training, education or voluntary work after 12 weeks.

3. Introduce noise control. If your neighbours are getting up to pay a mortgage and you’re sitting on your arse on the taxpayer, the taxpayer deserves a peaceful nights sleep

4. Curfew for all children up to the age of 18.

5. Compulsory education or training until 18

6. Offer pre apprenticeship courses in school from 14(ish). Not everyone is booksmart but too many kids who would thrive in practical roles are being lost. A degree isn’t the only way to be successful.

7. Three convictions, you serve the full sentence. With hard labour.

8. Cap CEO pay. Yes, there’s skills, knowledge and behaviours that make CEOs etc successful, but I genuinely don’t believe that someone should be earning €23,000 a week when one of their employees are earning just €23,000 (or less!) a year. I’m paid ok, but I see too often people like porters, cleaners, etc get paid crap and the managers don’t even look them in the eye when they walk past.

9. Offer people a paid sabbatical to be used as needed; maternity leave, study leave, travel, Family leave, whatever. Say a maximum of 18 months, not accessible until they’ve been working full time for ten years.

10. Free childcare for workers. You get the same number of free hours as you work (couples, add both parents together, and divide by two). No free childcare if you’re unemployed. Offer extended hours, so those who dont work the standard M-F week can benefit too.

11. Compulsory jail term for fraudulent accident claims

12. Compulsory chemical castration for rapists and sex abusers.

13. Offer genuine flexible working so if people want to work their hours over 4 days, they can. And stop excluding childfree people from flexible working.

14. Remove the native ethnic wandering class from the minority list.

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

I'd ban hurling...make rugby mandatory.

Stop the culture of entitlement

Reviewing the circumstances on social housing and ending "life tenancies" would help a lot in solving the social housing issue. So much of the stock is under utilised

I'd like the Govt to do 2 things:

1. Make it legal for tenants to not pay rent and then destroy a landlords property to walk away without consequence.

2. Give unlimited, unending dole to people who don't wish to go to work.


Oh wait.....

Appropriate criminal justice rather than the "light-touch" applied by the courts, whether it's white collar crime or crimes against the person

No jail time for non-violent offences (with the exception of large scale fraud). There's no point in wasting the time and money for non-violent crimes like theft.

That being said, for any conviction, if jail time is not administered, the person has to pay a minimum fine of €1000 to cover the costs of the court.

And the fine increases with every conviction after that, up to a maximum of €10,000 per offence. They have a year to pay back anything less than €4,000, two years for €4-7,000, and three years for €7-10,000.

If they don't pay, take it at €100 per week from their social welfare, or their tax. If no attempt to pay back the money is made within the year, then take €150 a week from their social welfare or earnings.

Any children under the age of 14 committing a non-violent crime, the parents, who should be parenting them, will pay a fine of €200 for first offence, and €500 for every offence thereafter, or 100 hours community service must be completed during the summer months when the schools have closed. Once over the age of 14, the fines for any convictions would be held against their PPS number and administered when they turn 18, and would be taken from their social welfare or tax if not paid before then.