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If you could change one thing about Ireland...

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  • #242
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users Posts: 13,727 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    jimgoose wrote: »
    By all means, but by the time it complies with Irish regulation around PSVs and licensing, you've just got a big hackney firm. The Americans traditionally have difficulty getting their little heads around the regulation in Europe around these things. :pac:

    They seemed to do it in London though


  • #243
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,174 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    They seemed to do it in London though

    TfL refused to re-license Uber in 2017 because they are not compliant with local regulations there either. However, because they were granted such license at one stage, they are able to operate until all appeal channels are exhausted.


  • #244
    Marhay70
    Registered Users Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭Marhay70


    davidglanza wrote: »
    i would put it on the petrol/diesel so the more you use your car the more you pay..
    That way you havnt got the gaurds stoping people and taking there car for no tax.

    Also that then gives the gardai more time to fight real crime instead of being tax collectors.

    So you think people forced to commute to work by the policies of successive FG/FF governments, from areas which have zero public transport, again due to the policies of successive FF/FG governments, should pay all the tax rather than those fortunate enough to live in the cities?


  • #245
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    micar wrote: »
    All primary schools are bilingual for Irish and English.

    After 14 years of learning Irish I can't put a sentence together.
    That must be someone elses fault


  • #246
    davidglanza
    Registered Users Posts: 251 ✭✭davidglanza


    Marhay70 wrote: »
    So you think people forced to commute to work by the policies of successive FG/FF governments, from areas which have zero public transport, again due to the policies of successive FF/FG governments, should pay all the tax rather than those fortunate enough to live in the cities?

    Are you not already paying motor tax if you're commuting.


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  • #247
    Marhay70
    Registered Users Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭Marhay70


    davidglanza wrote: »
    Are you not already paying motor tax if you're commuting.

    Of course, what's your point?


  • #248
    davidglanza
    Registered Users Posts: 251 ✭✭davidglanza


    Marhay70 wrote: »
    Of course, what's your point?

    My point is your already paying tax to commute.

    So why not take away the lump sum every 3months that people have to come up with to tax there car.
    Put a tax on fuel and then your only spending what you can afford without the worry of getting stopped by gardai for not having a motor tax disc..

    Most of europe already do it...


  • #249
    LoganRice
    Registered Users Posts: 424 ✭✭LoganRice


    I would 100% change the weather.


  • #250
    mikhail
    Registered Users Posts: 3,863 ✭✭✭mikhail


    davidglanza wrote: »
    My point is your already paying tax to commute.

    So why not take away the lump sum every 3months that people have to come up with to tax there car.
    Put a tax on fuel and then your only spending what you can afford without the worry of getting stopped by gardai for not having a motor tax disc..

    Most of europe already do it...
    Borderland petrol stations would make a killing.


  • #251
    kateee47298
    Registered Users Posts: 27 ✭kateee47298


    Definitely the weather, it doesn't even have to be the temperature but the amount of rain, especially in the west


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  • #252
    Marhay70
    Registered Users Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭Marhay70


    davidglanza wrote: »
    My point is your already paying tax to commute.

    So why not take away the lump sum every 3months that people have to come up with to tax there car.
    Put a tax on fuel and then your only spending what you can afford without the worry of getting stopped by gardai for not having a motor tax disc..

    Most of europe already do it...

    And my point is that you have two people working in the same office, factory etc and driving similar cars the only difference being that one is forced by circumstances beyond his control to commute 60km to work while the other can walk, cycle or use public transport how is it fair that one is charged motor tax to get to work while the other isn't'
    I wish people would stop comparing Ireland with the rest of Europe, Ireland is nothing like the rest of Europe. Most of the rest of Europe have competent national and local administration, proper planning, decent far reaching public transport etc., etc, etc. Ireland is a basket case.


  • #253
    janfebmar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,424 ✭✭✭janfebmar


    Marhay70 wrote: »
    And my point is that you have two people working in the same office, factory etc and driving similar cars the only difference being that one is forced by circumstances beyond his control to commute 60km to work while the other can walk, cycle or use public transport how is it fair that one is charged motor tax to get to work while the other isn't'
    I wish people would stop comparing Ireland with the rest of Europe, Ireland is nothing like the rest of Europe. Most of the rest of Europe have competent national and local administration, proper planning, decent far reaching public transport etc., etc, etc. Ireland is a basket case.

    As Gay Byrne ( Irelands leading media person for decades) once famously said, we wanted our independence, we have to pay for it. That was in in the eighties after many decades of poverty and huge emigration to Britain, and before all the Rec/ EU handoutkicked in, and before the Americans really started using Ireland as tax haven for their companies.


  • #254
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    janfebmar wrote: »
    As Gay Byrne ( Irelands leading media person for decades) once famously said, we wanted our independence, we have to pay for it. That was in in the eighties after many decades of poverty and huge emigration to Britain, and before all the Rec/ EU handoutkicked in, and before the Americans really started using Ireland as tax haven for their companies.
    Byrne was such a ****ing expert he allowed himself to be ripped off not once but twice.
    Big fish in a small pool, conservative anti union scrote who favoured the poor but happy for everyone else approach


  • #255
    Dublin Spur
    Registered Users Posts: 3,317 ✭✭✭Dublin Spur


    zero tolerance on anti-social behavior and much tougher sentencing - life means life - never concurant, always consecutive would be a start

    the focus needs to be on punishment and public safety and not rehabilitation


  • #256
    janfebmar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,424 ✭✭✭janfebmar


    Edgware wrote: »
    Byrne was such a ****ing expert he allowed himself to be ripped off not once but twice.
    Big fish in a small pool, conservative anti union scrote who favoured the poor but happy for everyone else approach

    That is another negative thing about Ireland, the way people knock people like Gay Byrne who started from humble beginnings but done well for themselves and now lives in Howth. The begrudgers


  • #257
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    janfebmar wrote: »
    That is another negative thing about Ireland, the way people knock people like Gay Byrne who started from humble beginnings but done well for themselves and now lives in Howth. The begrudgers[/qbegrudg
    He came from a humble background but was well able to patronise anyone with a Dublin or country working class accent. Despite what he tried to portray he was a pro Catholic Blueshirt establishment ****


  • #258
    janfebmar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,424 ✭✭✭janfebmar


    Edgware wrote: »
    He came from a humble background but was well able to patronise anyone with a Dublin or country working class accent. Despite what he tried to portray he was a pro Catholic Blueshirt establishment ****

    He spoke properly. That is another thing many people despise about Ireland, a lot of people have very poor elocution and the worst offenders often attack those who can speak properly.


  • #259
    rgmmg
    Registered Users Posts: 537 ✭✭✭rgmmg


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

    Which one? It has 5.


  • #260
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,174 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Edgware wrote: »
    ...he was a pro Catholic Blueshirt establishment ****

    You say that like it's a bad thing! :pac:


  • #261
    Marhay70
    Registered Users Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭Marhay70


    janfebmar wrote: »
    As Gay Byrne ( Irelands leading media person for decades) once famously said, we wanted our independence, we have to pay for it. That was in in the eighties after many decades of poverty and huge emigration to Britain, and before all the Rec/ EU handoutkicked in, and before the Americans really started using Ireland as tax haven for their companies.

    Who's this "we" of whom you speak?


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  • #262
    janfebmar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,424 ✭✭✭janfebmar


    Marhay70 wrote: »
    Who's this "we" of whom you speak?

    I assume he meant "people in Ireland".


  • #263
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    I’d saw off Norn Iron and float it up beside Greenland.


  • #264
    Odyssey 2005
    Registered Users Posts: 21,065 ✭✭✭✭Odyssey 2005


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    I’d saw off Norn Iron and float it up beside Greenland.

    Why not just sink it ?


  • #265
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Odyssey 2005 wrote: »
    Why not just sink it ?

    That would work too. Excellent idea.


  • #266
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    Stick it to Scotland where it belongs.


  • #267
    Odyssey 2005
    Registered Users Posts: 21,065 ✭✭✭✭Odyssey 2005


    OldMrBrennan83 wrote: »
    Stick it to Scotland where it belongs.

    What did Scotland ever do on you :)


  • #268
    mariaalice
    Registered Users Posts: 12,358 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    I would tweak the weather a bit that's all.


  • #269
    Ragnar Lothbrok
    Registered Users Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Ragnar Lothbrok


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    I’d saw off Norn Iron and float it up beside Greenland.
    Odyssey 2005 wrote: »
    Why not just sink it ?
    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    That would work too. Excellent idea.
    OldMrBrennan83 wrote: »
    Stick it to Scotland where it belongs.
    Odyssey 2005 wrote: »
    What did Scotland ever do on you :)

    I would like to see an Ireland where this kind of ignorant BS didn't exist.


  • #270
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    Ragnar Lothbrok wrote: »
    I would like to see an Ireland where this kind of ignorant BS didn't exist.

    Everyone doesn't have to like every other country in the world.


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  • #271
    Ragnar Lothbrok
    Registered Users Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Ragnar Lothbrok


    OldMrBrennan83 wrote: »
    Everyone doesn't have to like every other country in the world.

    Another country? I refer you to my previous post.

    I'm really not in the mood for this kind of rubbish on a Friday morning.


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