My suggestion, institute a universal basic income. I don't know whether it would be enough on its own or even whether it would all have to be used but IMO it would be a more progressive use than dribbling it away a few billion her and a few billion there. If the intention is to bring in a UBI in the long run anyway, well no better time than now IMO...
Sovereign wealth fund. I worked for the Canadian pension plan for a few years, they manage a consistent 10% return over last ten years and manage risk extremely tightly. They manage over 500bn. With demographic changes we will need it in the future.
Yeah have seen a couple of documentaries on Norway's prisons system. It really is an eye opener.
But it comes back to my point if you have less victims of crime due to addressing the reasons for criminality like Norway do then you will have less need for prison spaces.
Ireland definitely need a new prison that's more down to prisoner welfare and by extension the people who work in prisons welfare.
couple more prisons would be handy,keep the scobies with 100+++ convictions off the streets...a few more gard's wouldnt go a-stray either plus a few more cars for them...a few mental health centres around would be good too...oh....and....coke and hookers for everyone!
I don't know about a one stop shop acute mental health facility / prison. I'm not aware of any.
Maximum Security facility operated by New York:
By Norway:
It's currently 89 per 100,000. The increase is largely due to a change in laws around sex offences and coercive control.
But that is only one side of the coin, rate of crime, length of stay, etc.
I don't know about a one stop shop acute mental health facility / prison. I'm not aware of any. Our prison have programmes which of course are wholly unsuitable for people who can't even be let out of their cell without officers donning riot gear.
Wait, are you saying that people are put in prison because of mental health problems? And these people haven't broken the law in any way? What did the UN and Amnesty International say to you when you presented them with evidence this is happening?
When can we expect the evidence you have become public?
You need to read back your own statement there.
The car parks are beyond capacity...insert logic...therefore the government is spending loads of money?
Some people are buying electric cars...insert logic...therefore the government has loads of spending money?
Income taxes are this, taxes that, blah blah blah.
Yes, that's all well and good. But where is the supposed money being spent then?
Adequate car parking facilities? No.
Adequate housing? No.
Staff left right and centre complaining, rightfully that they don't have enough anything? Half the gp's needed? Not enough gardai? Not enough army personnel? No transport infrastructure? Yep. And a whole lot more.
You thinking that driving to a jam packed airport in an electric car ain't what you think it means.
As for calling me a "tankie", you can call me a mushroom for all it matters. This apparent windfall economy, years going, is nowhere to be seen on the ground.
It's scamville.
And people looking at what this economy has produced thus far (sweet fa), while expecting the latest fairy numbers to mean anything either need to go and lie down for a couple weeks straight.
Yes of course, it’s one service that very much comes to mind though
...think you might be stretching it there in regards half the resources needed, we re in the completely fcuked state of resources at the moment, the full surplus is easily needed, but it would be best to spread it out across many services.....
how is it currently benefiting you as a middle earner.
You pay off your debts. That should be very self explanatory.
That increases the good faith and standing of Ireland, which will lead to more faith and credit in the future, increasing Ireland's float whereby it can grow its economy or survive a rainy day.
Only extremely useful if there is interest or penalties to be avoided by paying these early.
We very badly need to invest in Mental Health services as well as neurology, the two being ever more interlinked as the science of the brain is evolving fast. We have about half the resources actually needed.
...so you want to reduce the amount of money in the economy, by paying off the national debt, hows that gonna benefit us?
Except you're not 'filling them up,' they were long since 'filled up', what's happened since is not 'filling them up,' they long since overflowed on to the streets.
Frequently, people go around circles in the Irish legal system... over a lack of adequate access to incarcerate people for the time reasonably needed to protect society from recidivism.
I think the state should create a sovereign fund and use investment returns to pay off the national debt.
Im not sure how it works so would probably ask Norway to set it up for us.
Ireland has way too many unnecessary costs so I think we need to remove the waste before currently investing into services and infrastructure.
....and all we seem to be doing is filling up our prisons with more mentally unstable, and folks with all sorts of complex psychological problems, who seem to be just going around in circles within the system.......
We had that option waaay back in the 1970s when I was a teenager, to in Norway, but we it was deemed by FG Minister Justin Keating that the Jrish wouldn’t stomach the extra tax to fund a long term plan.
No, because didn't just hear on the radio that every bit of Dublin Airport car parking is full because demand is far exceeding pre-pandemic levels or read yesterday that electric car sales are ahead 20% even on an average price of 64k, or that income taxes and VAT are miles ahead because of full employment and strong consumer demand, in spite of high inflation.
If you're not seeing it then you simply refuse to open your eyes I think.
The pinko tankies really hate it when capitalism delivers, eh?
Nonsense from him
Infrastructure is the crucial investment the state needs to make to facilitate growth and future investment.
If they do not invest in infrastructure the state will stagnate, GDP will stagnate, and then we will have borrowing and debt issues if our GDP is not continually increasing in the long term.
Hahaha, lawyered. Well played. Boggles must be one of the bleeding hearts who is happy to see Anto out on bail for his 171st criminal conviction .
Proper modern infrastructure program especially more extensive transport links. Upgrade & modernisation of defence forces, to standard of other western European nations of similar sized populations, defence spending has FALLEN in real terms since the mid '90's / GFA era / subsequent recessions. Now is time to invest in the security of the nation / plus also increase UN & overseas peace keeping operations, complete with proper equipment & protection for our military forces.
Multinational companies & uber rich billionaires should be paying more taxes, not avoiding it, that includes twats like Bono & Edge.
Whatever it's spent on needs to have something tangible to show for the spending, not wasting the money on TD's salaries.
You can build a fully fledged prison/correctional facility, with all of those functions.
At the back of the pack actually, much less than direct neighbors Spain, France, Scotland, England, etc.
I think we have a high level of incarceration in comparison to other European countries, one of the reasons for this the IPS claim is they are basically a dumping ground for everyone. They had their AGM a couple of weeks back.
Build more treatment and mental health facilities, not only will you free up prison services you will tackle some of the root causes of criminality.
Article is behind paywall but IIRC the point he was making is infrastructure projects are mainly about improving quality of life. The way to generate further prosperity with this money he says is to set up a massive support fund for young entrepreneurs.
It should be kept until the lean times, and spent then. A rainy day fund.
Trying to spend big at this stage when we are at full employment and suffering huge labour shortages will only cause inflation. Wait until the labour market cools down and then create some employment through infrastructure projects like rail double tracking & electrification, sewage upgrades (no more raw sewage being pumped out to sea), a prison.
And of course a white water rafting center in the quays
There's been more hospitals and social services built in the past 20 years than prisons. Change my mind.
...all interlinked with our health care system crisis, and other major state/social institutional failures.....
Calm down.
No, I didn't "make it up".
Who needs to make up anything with this famous economy?
"Double Irish" ring a bell?. How about "leprechaun economics"?
How about the well publicised tax evasion techniques, the transfer pricing debacle, the well publicised "fight" to maintain our famous corporation tax rate, with the actual paid rate being a fraction of that yet again.
Sorry that I can't find the exact report I mentioned, but if you need to view singular pieces of corn in a mountain of dung to recognise you're in dung, take a leap back.
Further to your mention of us "being loaded". Yeah, it's funny alright. Keep hearing that. I'm not seeing it though, and neither is anyone else.
Yeah but if your radar worker is mugged and stabbed on his way to work by someone out on 34 suspended sentences what does that do for the industry, safety, or national security.
The prison crisis has been a crisis far longer.
...would be a great start, we also desperately need to get cracking with rapid expansion of our public transport system, particularly rail.....
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