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If you could change one thing about Ireland...

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  • #152
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    I'd make politicians more accountable - starting with a mandatory course for all voting age citizens on their personal responsibility to vote for politicians who will actually improve life for all the people in the Country, as opposed to the current method of political parties using demographics to "target" enough votes to get them elected...


  • #153
    MadYaker
    Registered Users Posts: 12,138 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    Mantis Toboggan wrote: »
    The weather, think France has the best all round climate, I'd happily change ours for theirs.

    You ever lived in France all year round? There's better on offer. California would prob be the best if they got a tiny bit more rain. Still fcuk all rain but enough, and 80% of the time it's warm, dry and sunny but never too hot.


    I change the pubs and clubs all closing so early, ridiculous in this day and age.


  • #154
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users Posts: 16,244 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Bring back the death penalty.


  • #155
    seasidedub
    Registered Users Posts: 234 ✭✭seasidedub


    Former Observer wrote: »
    Outlaw private health care and private schools.

    Everybody should contribute to the same system. If rich people want their children to go to better schools then they should invest in the whole system.

    Eh, everyone who works does contribute to the "same system"

    It's called paying taxes.

    Private health is something you pay for if you choose and it's available in Scandinavia too for example. Also, by using a private health provider you take yourself out ofthe public system thereby (in theory) freeing a place for a less well off person.

    Private schools: poorly understood that the state provides the same per student subsidies to the private school as they provide to a public school. The parents then pay the extra. The private student gets what they are entitled to via parents taxes. Many parents sacrifice a lot, cars, holidays etc to pay the extra.

    Your "everyone gets the same" has never worked. Even in north Korea.


  • #156
    Brendog
    Registered Users Posts: 1,976 ✭✭✭Brendog


    I'm sure its the 1657th time its been said but, THE WEATHER.

    I'd love a North American climate. I'd happily suffer 6/7 months of harsh freezing winter and enjoy day to day dry sunshine from May to September.


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  • #157
    nice_guy80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,723 ✭✭✭nice_guy80


    seasidedub wrote: »
    Eh, everyone who works does contribute to the "same system"

    It's called paying taxes.

    Private health is something you pay for if you choose and it's available in Scandinavia too for example. Also, by using a private health provider you take yourself out ofthe public system thereby (in theory) freeing a place for a less well off person.

    Private schools: poorly understood that the state provides the same per student subsidies to the private school as they provide to a public school. The parents then pay the extra. The private student gets what they are entitled to via parents taxes. Many parents sacrifice a lot, cars, holidays etc to pay the extra.

    Your "everyone gets the same" has never worked. Even in north Korea.

    Not true
    The private healthcare system in Ireland takes consultants and beds out of the public system

    The state shouldn't be subsidising private schools when many of the state schools are falling down or bursting at the seams.


  • #158
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,133 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Ragnar Lothbrok wrote: »
    A united Ireland first and foremost.

    Many negative posts on here re our very high taxes, take car insurance for example, would they (in NI) really want to abandon their UK system for ours? would they also give up free GP visits courtesy of the NHS????

    We may WANT (demand) a United Ireland, but maybe they don't. I would only change that if there was consensus...


  • #159
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Free daycare for children, in creches run by only OAPs so the kids learn from the people that built Ireland.
    Also it keeps old folks young at heart and challenged so they don't waste away home alone.


  • #160
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    biko wrote: »
    Free daycare for children, in creches run by only OAPs so the kids learn from the people that built Ireland.
    Also it keeps old folks young at heart and challenged so they don't waste away home alone.

    I’m bordering on being one of those OAPs. My retired mates wouldn’t have time for helping in crèches! They wonder how they ever found time for work! They’re busy with active retirement groups, walking, swimming, golf, days out etc. not all old folks sit home alone!


  • #161
    bobbysands81
    Registered Users Posts: 7,198 ✭✭✭bobbysands81


    Unite it.


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  • #162
    bobbysands81
    Registered Users Posts: 7,198 ✭✭✭bobbysands81


    Hamsterchops wrote: »
    Many negative posts on here re our very high taxes, take car insurance for example, would they (in NI) really want to abandon their UK system for ours? would they also give up free GP visits courtesy of the NHS????

    We may WANT (demand) a United Ireland, but maybe they don't. I would only change that if there was consensus...

    There will be consensus. The partition of such a small island is senseless.

    However, it’s not romantic ideals that will unite Ireland but capitalist ones.


  • #163
    corner of hells
    Registered Users Posts: 8,353 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    bobbysands81 wrote: »
    Unite it.

    Untie it from what ?
    Oops, my dyslexia is strong this morning.


  • #164
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,133 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    bobbysands81 wrote: »
    There will be consensus. The partition of such a small island is senseless.

    However, it’s not romantic ideals that will unite Ireland but capitalist ones.

    Ironic that this island "may" become one political entity just as the neibouring island "may" split in two?

    With Scotland possibly handing over control to Brussels while NI may possibly be run by Dublin, leaving London to support England & Wales :)

    It's all change.


  • #165
    Nikki Sixx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 426 ✭✭Nikki Sixx


    bobbysands81 wrote: »
    Unite it.

    We can’t afford to take on Northern Ireland. It gets a disproportionate amount of u.k. funding for its size. It doesn’t matter if you are a tricolour waver or a Union Jack waver. The Republic of Ireland cannot over to make N.I. part of the republic.


  • #166
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    seasidedub wrote: »
    Eh, everyone who works does contribute to the "same system"

    It's called paying taxes.

    Private health is something you pay for if you choose and it's available in Scandinavia too for example. Also, by using a private health provider you take yourself out ofthe public system thereby (in theory) freeing a place for a less well off person.

    Private schools: poorly understood that the state provides the same per student subsidies to the private school as they provide to a public school. The parents then pay the extra. The private student gets what they are entitled to via parents taxes. Many parents sacrifice a lot, cars, holidays etc to pay the extra.

    Your "everyone gets the same" has never worked. Even in north Korea.

    In what specific way would ensuring that everyone, regardless of wealth, has access to the same healthcare and education 'not work'?


  • #167
    emilymemily
    Registered Users Posts: 343 ✭✭emilymemily


    More opportunities for the less privileged and connected/less nepotism


  • #168
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,344 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Since we're into summer season and festivals in full flow I would like to see the Irish camping music festivals bring in a law that all campsites are BYEco, in otherwards if you don't clean up after yourself you might be fined or something to that extent. The same with single day events like Slane and the like.

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    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #169
    mikhail
    Registered Users Posts: 3,863 ✭✭✭mikhail


    Ragnar Lothbrok wrote: »
    My change would be to round up everyone who rants like this and deposit them on an uninhabited island.
    How do you think they founded Ireland?


  • #170
    bobbyss
    Registered Users Posts: 5,189 ✭✭✭bobbyss


    I would make It illegal for people to start sentences with 'listen or 'look it'.

    I would fine people, especially TDs who speak like Bertie's Dis and Dat.

    All adults who use upspeak e.g. Miriam O'Callaghan, Brendan what's his name and many many more.


  • #171
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,775 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    bodhrandude wrote:
    Since we're into summer season and festivals in full flow I would like to see the Irish camping music festivals bring in a law that all campsites are BYEco, in otherwards if you don't clean up after yourself you might be fined or something to that extent. The same with single day events like Slane and the like.


    How would you 'police' this?


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  • #172
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,637 ✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    How would you 'police' this?

    With attack dogs, batons, rubber bullets and teargas. A few kicks in the hole might be worth adding into the mix to keep it interesting.


  • #173
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,775 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    JayZeus wrote:
    With attack dogs, batons, rubber bullets and teargas. A few kicks in the hole might be worth adding into the mix to keep it interesting.


    Haha excellent, just create a riot at all festival events, at least it ll be a bit of crack


  • #174
    FutureGuy
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 15,226 Mod ✭✭✭✭FutureGuy


    Our unhealthy obsession with alcohol.


  • #175
    kildare lad
    Registered Users Posts: 2,010 ✭✭✭kildare lad


    I'd change the welfare system . It rewards people for having lots of kids and their parent/ parents are to lazy to work . My friend is paying 1300 a month rent for a small 2 bed apartment. He has 2 kids and a girlfriend. The banks will only lend him 180,000 which won't buy you anything. He hasn't missed a months rent in 4 years and the mortgage loan he wants ( 280,000 ) is less than the rent he's paying .

    Across the road from his apartment are two families living in nice semi detached houses. They don't work , have 5 or 6 kids each and pay for nothing. Anytime I see one of the women she's always in her pyjamas. Now how is that system fair?? One person is breaking his b@llix working and is worse off than the person who does nothing expect fire out babies for a living.


  • #176
    willowthewisp
    Registered Users Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭willowthewisp


    The weather.


  • #177
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,775 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    kildare lad wrote: »
    I'd change the welfare system . It rewards people for having lots of kids and their parent/ parents are to lazy to work . My friend is paying 1300 a month rent for a small 2 bed apartment. He has 2 kids and a girlfriend. The banks will only lend him 180,000 which won't buy you anything. He hasn't missed a months rent in 4 years and the mortgage loan he wants ( 280,000 ) is less than the rent he's paying .

    Across the road from his apartment are two families living in nice semi detached houses. They don't work , have 5 or 6 kids each and pay for nothing. Anytime I see one of the women she's always in her pyjamas. Now how is that system fair?? One person is breaking his b@llix working and is worse off than the person who does nothing expect fire out babies for a living.

    or maybe theres something fundamentally wrong with the world of finance, land and property?


  • #178
    kildare lad
    Registered Users Posts: 2,010 ✭✭✭kildare lad


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    or maybe theres something fundamentally wrong with the world of finance, land and property?

    Yes I'd agree with that too, but I think it's unfair that layabouts/bums get things to easy here .


  • #179
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,775 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    kildare lad wrote: »
    Yes I'd agree with that too, but I think it's unfair that layabouts/bums get things to easy here .

    ive spoken to many unemployed people, their lives dont seem all that great, i do personally believe the issues are truly with the entities ive mentioned above, but these are very intangible at best, so its becomes easier to simply blame the unemployed


  • #180
    kildare lad
    Registered Users Posts: 2,010 ✭✭✭kildare lad


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    ive spoken to many unemployed people, their lives dont seem all that great, i do personally believe the issues are truly with the entities ive mentioned above, but these are very intangible at best, so its becomes easier to simply blame the unemployed

    Where did i blame unemployed people on anything??That's their own fault their lives aren't great . I just don't think it's fair that they should they be given things free, while other people have to go and work for it.


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  • #181
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,637 ✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    I’d make it an offence to hijack threads and take them OT. Punishable by two roots up the hole. Even for the unemployed.


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