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If you could change one thing about Ireland...

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  • #62
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    i would make it summer all year round!


  • #63
    GSBellew
    Registered Users Posts: 670 ✭✭✭GSBellew


    I'd change the elephant in the room, social welfare rates.

    I await the anti dole bashing backlash.

    Those who have never contributed should get sweet feck all, no more drop out of school and sign on, give a minimal allowance, access to shelter, want more? work for it in one of the many jobs available to those who are willing to work.

    The dole should primarily be a safety net for those that have contributed, rates should be proportionate to contributions and paid over a period reflective of the number of contributions they have paid in.


  • #64
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    GSBellew wrote: »
    I'd change the elephant in the room, social welfare rates.

    I await the anti dole bashing backlash.

    Those who have never contributed should get sweet feck all, no more drop out of school and sign on, give a minimal allowance, access to shelter, want more? work for it in one of the many jobs available to those who are willing to work.

    The dole should primarily be a safety net for those that have contributed, rates should be proportionate to contributions and paid over a period reflective of the number of contributions they have paid in.

    Lets get rid of taxes then.


  • #65
    Sexual Chocolate
    Registered Users Posts: 2,053 ✭✭✭Sexual Chocolate


    The way that we pay through our hole for motoring. Tax, insurance, petrol, the illegal vrt tax we pay.....


  • #66
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    I would get rid of all the people. Cept maybe 30 of us.


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  • #67
    boardise
    Registered Users Posts: 3,401 ✭✭✭boardise


    Radically and rationally recast the position of the ailing minority language Gaelic.
    For starters remove the surreal article in the Constitutional declaring it to be 'the first official language' and make it optional in the education system after primary school.


  • #68
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,954 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    More affordable places to rent, more suitable dwellings for people who want to live alone.


  • #69
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Get rid of RTE and Politicians.


  • #70
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Make us a part of the UK again. And leave the EU!

    Spotted Dick for all!


  • #71
    Sexual Chocolate
    Registered Users Posts: 2,053 ✭✭✭Sexual Chocolate


    GSBellew wrote: »
    I'd change the elephant in the room, social welfare rates.

    I await the anti dole bashing backlash.

    Those who have never contributed should get sweet feck all, no more drop out of school and sign on, give a minimal allowance, access to shelter, want more? work for it in one of the many jobs available to those who are willing to work.

    The dole should primarily be a safety net for those that have contributed, rates should be proportionate to contributions and paid over a period reflective of the number of contributions they have paid in.

    There should be a maximum time in which you can claim it.


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  • #72
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Support minority religions more.


  • #73
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Start a proper fashion industry shake up our tourist industry.


  • #74
    Day Lewin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,599 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    Improve the weather, and strictly curtail the claiming of "compensation".

    (That compo culture actually dictates a lot of the restrictions that companies and groups struggle under)

    Oh, and I'd tighten up the planning laws against bungalow blisters, vanity developments, and ribbon straggle; more, and more prudent, housing..


  • #75
    Hobosan
    Registered Users Posts: 582 ✭✭✭Hobosan


    I would put a tax on all people who stand in water.


  • #76
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Hobosan wrote: »
    I would put a tax on all people who stand in water.
    :pac:


  • #77
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    I would put a tax on eyebrows so people would have to shave them off.


  • #78
    Triceratops Ballet
    Registered Users Posts: 4,894 ✭✭✭Triceratops Ballet


    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote:
    Cooking and nutrition should be taught. And a basic exercise plan.


    Cooking and nutrition are taught as part of home economics, at least they were in my day!


  • #79
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    The weather is a big concern so far, however the country can't easily be shipped anywhere (unless outer SW sea territory or island building commences out towards Del Garda).

    Instead put a large array of mirrors up in geostatic orbit, to blast down extra sun rays, use it also for interweb broadband satcoms stuff.


  • #80
    Arghus
    Registered Users Posts: 14,319 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    All these ideas are lovely lads,

    but you have to fix the weather first. There's too much rain and not enough sunshine.


  • #81
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Sexual Chocolate wrote: »
    The way that we pay through our hole for motoring. Tax, insurance, petrol, the illegal vrt tax we pay.....

    Road tax on a range rover here is treble that of the UK


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  • #82
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    Road tax on a range rover here is treble that of the UK


    So is insurance.


  • #83
    facehugger99
    Registered Users Posts: 7,193 ✭✭✭facehugger99


    I'd change the views/intellect of a majority of the electorate away from short-term, selfish thinking to long-term, prudent and socially beneficial considerations.

    We have generally awful politicians and political parties that enact policies to cater for the lowest common denominators.


  • #84
    bear1
    Registered Users Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    Weather
    Motor tax.. Abolish it and make it pay as you go.
    Actually grow our military.


  • #85
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,745 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    I'd pay the politicians double and half the minimum wage. Maybe bring in some kind of child labour to fill the gaps.


  • #86
    TuringBot47
    Registered Users Posts: 991 ✭✭✭TuringBot47


    bear1 wrote: »
    Actually grow our military.

    Why?
    They're a useless bunch of deafened weekend warriors.


  • #87
    bear1
    Registered Users Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    TuringBot47 wrote: »
    Why?
    They're a useless bunch of deafened weekend warriors.

    Exactly why.


  • #88
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users Posts: 28,392 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    I would put a tax on eyebrows so people would have to shave them off.

    A tax every time someone re-regs on here?


  • #89
    Dublin Spur
    Registered Users Posts: 3,317 ✭✭✭Dublin Spur


    sportsfan90 wrote: »
    If you could change one thing about Ireland, what would it be?

    For me it's the courts system and the sentences handed down. I'm so sick of lenient and suspended sentences that I now just avoid reading about court cases in newspapers. People on 100+ previous convictions pleading with the judge about their tough upbringing and how they've now turned their life around. Absolutely infuriating how it's repeatedly allowed to happen!

    I don't care what it takes - they can double my USC to pay for extra prison officers, they can build a massive prison next door to my house, I really don't care how it's done once the scumbags are taken off the streets and there's an actual deterrent for the type of people that feel the law doesn't apply to them.

    100000% this
    Plus the abolishing of concurant sentening


  • #90
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,637 ✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    i would make it summer all year round!
    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    Lets get rid of taxes then.
    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    I would get rid of all the people. Cept maybe 30 of us.
    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    Get rid of RTE and Politicians.
    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    Make us a part of the UK again. And leave the EU!

    Spotted Dick for all!
    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    Support minority religions more.
    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    Start a proper fashion industry shake up our tourist industry.
    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    I would put a tax on eyebrows so people would have to shave them off.

    "If you could change one thing about Ireland..."

    I withdraw my earlier considered response. Let the church keep the schools. When it's become so bad that people can't even count to one, it's gone too far to be saved.


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  • #91
    Ragnar Lothbrok
    Registered Users Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Ragnar Lothbrok


    A united Ireland first and foremost.

    However, even that wouldn't fix the weather.


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