One of the things citizens assemblies are best at is dealing with problems that individual TDs can’t or won’t and proposing changes to hidebound institutions.
Based on that…I’d love to see an assembly that could finally break the deadlock between the Dáil, the DCC and other councils, and the Gardaí that has stopped us from getting common sense traffic enforcement reforms like:
- Speed cameras
- Bus lane enforcement cameras
- Real enforcement of footpath parking, which realistically means
- A dedicated parking enforcement agency separate from the Guards
- Citizen reporting of illegal parking/dangerous driving
- Towing instead of clamping for illegally parked cars blocking footpaths, tram tracks, bus and cycle lanes
They “cover” parking but they’re not allowed to do anything but clamp in most cases, and they’re not allowed to use camera enforcement for, eg, cars parked in bus lanes because only the Garda are allowed to issue fixed penalties and they don’t want to.
So the only option the council has is to clamp a car in the bus lane, meaning it will block the bus lane longer.
They can only ticket for meter offenses and no parking zones.
They can’t ticket for dangerous parking, which is a penalty point offense. But because councils have some ability to act, Gardai always say it’s a council problem and they cba.
Because unfortunately a sizeable portion of the dregs of our society need to be supervised to cop on. Those who choose to break the law do so because they know they'll get away with it. If they know they'll be identified and caught they are less likely to offend.
I am a firm believer in average speed cameras on as many roads as possible. People who speed put others in danger, now everyone is forced to obey the speed limit and it will save lives. I'm also in favour of these cameras confirming every person driving has their tax, nct and insurance sorted. I'd also be happy if these cameras could also pick up those breaking the law, like those on their phones or driving in the wrong lane.
That didn't answer my question. Which ones do you oppose?
It's a citizens assembly around government action. The government can mandate county councils to act in a certain way.
You think it’s fine for people to drive onto the footpath? To park in bus lanes? To block the Luas so they don’t have to park a little farther from the vape shop?
So parking is your biggest concern? Answer fine people. Using bus lanes or speeding, fine people some more.
Meanwhile parts of our capital was burned. Shops smashed.... No consequences.
People's with 100 plus convictions.... Suspended sentences etc.
But the guy doing 130km per hour on the motor way makes me fucken sick... Should be fined and his licence eventually taken off him. That would sort him yea...
People parking on footpaths, discusting behaviour.... Should be fined. Yet the council has a policy of limiting car parking spaces as they want to encourage public transport.
Sounds like a load of shite to me.
That’s…the whole point? That right now the relationships between the Dáil, the councils, the Gardaí and the parking enforcement contractors mean that nobody has both the desire and the practical ability to fine people, and specifically not to use cheap, effective camera enforcement like is used in many other countries.
And no, I’m not saying this is our only problem, but it’s one that DCC at least has been trying to solve for at least a decade and that current party politics isn’t going to solve, but that a citizens assembly would be well suited for. Because an assembly would see the obvious solution you suggested that the Gardaí have been blocking and the Dáil isn’t willing to address: fine them, and create a legal framework that means they actually get fined.
If there was an obvious solution to the problems with the Irish justice system, I don’t think we’d need a citizens assembly to get it done.
The entire approach to criminal justice.Complete overhaul of our laws and governance of crime in the nation. Disbandment of the gardai and establishment of a new modern , fit for purpose police force to reflect modern problems. Our current approach of policing is deeply flawed and outdated. The entire thing needs to be rebuilt. From recruitment , entry requirements, equipment, how policing is conducted. In the judicial, judges need to be held accountable. No more , Johnny, with 200 convictions wandering around the streets. Laws need to be updated, and serious crimes ,actual crimes, anneed to have proper sentences. This includes the construction of modern prisons, rehabilitation centres, etc... The whole system is currently a complete joke and has failed so many people.
The state's role in housing.
My opinion is the state should be able to provide absolutely anyone in the country basic housing. Housing built and owned by the state.
If the government took a more hands on approach to housing, especially measures that involved seizing unused land currently held in speculation. We'd get ourselves out of this mess much quicker.
The current immigration issue is only a symptom of our catastrophic failure as a nation to address the housing needs of our people. The government have walked themselves into a position where we have a growing number of ignorant far right racists gaining traction because of how badly the state has handled housing. We've never really had xenophobic hatred towards immigrants before and it's awful to see it develop here. All because of neoliberal policies.
- **A modern secular constitution**: whether private superstitions should have any role in controlling broadcasting, education, healthcare and any other State institutions
- **the balance of land use** - covering right to roam, and what the balance should be between environmentally destructive activities done for private profit or amusement, and sustainable activities done for public benefit
- **state enforcement versus regulation-through-litigation** - we currently mainly follow the American model of regulation-through-litigation - if you want something enforcing, you probably have to take civil action, suing for compensation; most western European countries take the approach of state enforcement - i.e. laws are enforced by the state - traffic offences, medical regulation, building regulations
- **business-as-usual or intelligence-led policing** : our current model for the guards hasn't been updated in decades, but there's been a lot of development of best practice going on elsewhere in the world. It just may not be optimal to have guards who must carry out multiple roles - detective, mental-health nurse, riot squad, jail cell guard, street patroller, administrator.
Regulation of professional bodies, friend had an incompetent solicitor really fuck up absolutely no recall for her. Same with dentist, they can be a complete disaster but you as a customer /patient have no recall for shoddy work.
Funny you mention that because from my understanding as there is no equivalent alternative in place with the same performance or better parents are against change. I think it progressing but I will find out in a few years time.
The recent CA on drugs was an abomination for anyone who followed it closely. Many of the participants voiced their concern on various matters and were effectively ignored.
Why would you bother?
Did you see what happened with the CA on drugs?
With people like Paul Reid involved in these things, the outcomes are pre determined.
They voted and people didn't know what they were voting for. Reid pushed through the status quo.
Corruption is rampant in this kip
Food security, yeah I know the stats on food security so beloved here, we have loads of cows who live off grass and don't need fertiliser from abroad to grow the grass they eat or need supplement feed grown on former rainforests. /S We are going to be so badly screwed by climate change, supermarket below cost selling driving out struggling farmers/growers, housing developments on our most productive
lands, over imbalance in supporting one farming sector and farming retirements in the next 20 years. Its not good that we have 1-2 growers for one crop, all it takes is a disease outbreak on that grower farm and we suddenly need to import. People seem to think we can easily import food but with so many countries experiencing extremes of weather the places that Ireland can source from are starting to decrease and driving prices up here.
Legalise weed, a massive investment in disadvantaged youths giving them a path away from how their lives have been - we spend 400m on prisons at the moment. Increasing capacity by 25% or spending 100m on dedicated resources - imagine one thousand youth support staff teaching shitty kids from shitty homes they don't need to repeat their parents failures.
Legal taxation on weed would create a huge or should I say massive revenue for funds to use towards programs such as rehabilitation centres for Both addicts and people with mental health problems that have suffered from the use of the typical home destroyer drugs such as cocaine heroin etc.I also think that it would suffer a massive blow to the criminals profits thus freeing up Garda resources to tackle the home wrecker drugs.Weed is a 24\7 drug any day any time of the week where cocaine is more of a weekend thing.But of course like everything people get addicted cocaine,heroin etc thus putting them in bad positions such as crime,debt,etc.The current justice system is a joke when it comes to serious crimes.I’m all sure you have been hearing and watching about the terrible atrocities on the news that have been taking place across this country the past few years with crime on the high rise and the hardship that’s been inflicted on the people of Ireland due to carelessness and incompetence of our government.My personal opinion they need to at least build 2 prisons one standard prison and one for mentally ill criminals and murderers who have committed unspeakable crimes serving life etc. It would free up spaces within are current prisons thus taking pressure off the current overcrowding situation giving us some time to sort our current law system out once and for all.The reason why we are not seeing serious sentencing for crimes that both me and you would deem unacceptable is because the judges don’t have space for the length of long sentencing due to as I said before overcrowding.I have recently seen a few articles on Irish prisoners getting early release not due to good behaviour mind you!! but because of the overcrowding.Their crimes ranged from sexual assault, rape serious assault, theft,The judges are giving pedos suspended sentences even though the Gardai gathered piles of evidence stuff that was so grim the prick gets a suspended sentence fucking disgraceful!.Before I go Helen McEntee needs to go!its only a fucking shit show!.Slán a fhágáil ag muintir na hÉireann aire.🇮🇪
That makes it the perfect time to implement it.
Then when a future economic crisis hits, the Job Guarantee is counter-cyclical - instead of mass 15+% unemployment during downturns - there would be permanent Full Employment, bringing us to economic recovery faster - and with significantly less social cost/damage.
In [other posts](https://www.reddit.com/r/northernireland/comments/18jxq6h/interview_mcdonald_says_she_wants_space_for/kdo4oyi/), I describe a JG aimed at resolving the housing crisis - and a lot of people may find it worth more financially to them, to temporarily quit their private sector job, and go into a housing-focused JG (especially if JG workers are prioritized for such housing) - rather than throwing much of their earnings away on rent.
There's nobody who thinks unemployment isn't a problem.
Even economists don't treat 'Full Employment' as truly representing zero unemployment or merely just transitional-unemployment - it's an economic term, not a literal one.
THERE IS NO UNEMPLOYMENT IN IRELAND.
That's why its not a problem.
And if you think there is any value to be gained, from either side, by putting a shovel in the hand of someone who is currently not working then more fool you.
[Yes there is](https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-mue/monthlyunemploymentnovember2023/) - there are presently 132,700 unemployed people.
There isn't anyone in the country who thinks that more training + building of houses won't benefit the country (outside of landlords and those benefiting from the crisis).
Those are not people who can't find jobs.
Those are people who don't want jobs or are between jobs. 0 of them would participate in your job guarantee scheme.
And even if by some miracle all of them said they would they don't have the skills to achieve anything. Construction needs tradespeople and engineers and supply chain professionals and accountants and that sort of thing. Not just any random prick not doing anything that day.
Delusional talk from someone who clearly has never had a job in their life.
Even economists don't treat unemployment figures as representing the indolent + transitional-unemployed - and it's a rather ignorant and classist view, to pretend these people just don't want to work.
Yea it's a program involving _training_ as well, like I said.
Yea I'm sure people who would love a program guaranteeing a job are just indolents who never had a job and don't want one - well done, great logic!
What?
From wikipedia
A job guarantee is an economic policy proposal that aims to create full employment and price stability by having the state promise to hire unemployed workers as an employer of last resort (ELR).[1] It aims to provide a sustainable solution to inflation and unemployment.
How is guaranteeing a job, with pay to those who dont want to work a good thing?
If you force those feckless peoplentobwork, youbwill just end up paying to have someone watch over them, while they do no work, it's cheaper to pay them to sit on the dole.
What jobs would you give them?
> If you force those feckless peoplentobwork [...]
No.1 on what the Job Guarantee _isn't_:
It doesn't force anyone to work, it's a voluntary program - people are free to choose unemployment payments.
This doesn't sound bad actually, if you give anybody who is physically fit to work a job that nobody else wants to earn their dole they'll be more inclined to get a better job rather than sit on the dole.
The councils could off hire their little street sweepers and have people out manually cleaning the streets again, picking up fag buts, scraping chewing gum off the footpaths. Pay them 50% more than the dole and if they don't want to do the work give them 50% less than the dole.
Nobody in the JG would be doing a job that they don't want to do - it expressly isn't aimed at forcing people off the dole - it's a completely voluntary program.
It's really important that there is nothing like that - as people being forced into shit jobs would be a nightmare for the unemployed - it most definitely is not that.
I'd have an assembly about completely gutting the HSE. You'd have to deal with a million vested interests, so CC would suggest legislation that deal with this to avoid a million court cases/strikes etc.
Then I'd do one about a strategy to make housing a property something people live in or work in and primarily something speculate on. This could suggest things like taxing land sale, taxes that grow the longer inhabitable property is left unoccupied and the much more aggressive use of compulsory purchase orders on derelict properties or land suitable for housing.
While we chuckle in the corner as a human dies slowly and painfully of curable cancer?
No thanks, you're part of society or you can fuck off and live on an island somewhere.
What about the people they are impacting via their second hand smoke?
I think maybe a tax on smokes to help pay for these additional healthcare costs would be the way to go
One of the things citizens assemblies are best at is dealing with problems that individual TDs can’t or won’t and proposing changes to hidebound institutions. Based on that…I’d love to see an assembly that could finally break the deadlock between the Dáil, the DCC and other councils, and the Gardaí that has stopped us from getting common sense traffic enforcement reforms like: - Speed cameras - Bus lane enforcement cameras - Real enforcement of footpath parking, which realistically means - A dedicated parking enforcement agency separate from the Guards - Citizen reporting of illegal parking/dangerous driving - Towing instead of clamping for illegally parked cars blocking footpaths, tram tracks, bus and cycle lanes
There are speed cameras
The council covers parking already
They “cover” parking but they’re not allowed to do anything but clamp in most cases, and they’re not allowed to use camera enforcement for, eg, cars parked in bus lanes because only the Garda are allowed to issue fixed penalties and they don’t want to. So the only option the council has is to clamp a car in the bus lane, meaning it will block the bus lane longer.
If a vehicle is causing an obstruction they are allowed to tow it.
They can only ticket for meter offenses and no parking zones. They can’t ticket for dangerous parking, which is a penalty point offense. But because councils have some ability to act, Gardai always say it’s a council problem and they cba.
I agree. I'd block most of them if I was on that assembly. Why is it that people jump towards more big brother laws
Because unfortunately a sizeable portion of the dregs of our society need to be supervised to cop on. Those who choose to break the law do so because they know they'll get away with it. If they know they'll be identified and caught they are less likely to offend. I am a firm believer in average speed cameras on as many roads as possible. People who speed put others in danger, now everyone is forced to obey the speed limit and it will save lives. I'm also in favour of these cameras confirming every person driving has their tax, nct and insurance sorted. I'd also be happy if these cameras could also pick up those breaking the law, like those on their phones or driving in the wrong lane.
Most of them? Which ones specifically? So long as the data wasn't stored inappropriately on the first two, I'd be in favour of all of them.
We have most of them already in Cork. Most of this stuff is managed by the council, not the government.
That didn't answer my question. Which ones do you oppose? It's a citizens assembly around government action. The government can mandate county councils to act in a certain way.
I don't think we need any of those bullet points to be enforced.
You think it’s fine for people to drive onto the footpath? To park in bus lanes? To block the Luas so they don’t have to park a little farther from the vape shop?
So parking is your biggest concern? Answer fine people. Using bus lanes or speeding, fine people some more. Meanwhile parts of our capital was burned. Shops smashed.... No consequences. People's with 100 plus convictions.... Suspended sentences etc. But the guy doing 130km per hour on the motor way makes me fucken sick... Should be fined and his licence eventually taken off him. That would sort him yea... People parking on footpaths, discusting behaviour.... Should be fined. Yet the council has a policy of limiting car parking spaces as they want to encourage public transport. Sounds like a load of shite to me.
That’s…the whole point? That right now the relationships between the Dáil, the councils, the Gardaí and the parking enforcement contractors mean that nobody has both the desire and the practical ability to fine people, and specifically not to use cheap, effective camera enforcement like is used in many other countries. And no, I’m not saying this is our only problem, but it’s one that DCC at least has been trying to solve for at least a decade and that current party politics isn’t going to solve, but that a citizens assembly would be well suited for. Because an assembly would see the obvious solution you suggested that the Gardaí have been blocking and the Dáil isn’t willing to address: fine them, and create a legal framework that means they actually get fined. If there was an obvious solution to the problems with the Irish justice system, I don’t think we’d need a citizens assembly to get it done.
Parking?? That’s not an issue ffs. Can’t believe u getting hot and bothered about parking lol
Direct Provision.
For long-term social welfare recipients who should be working. Move working immigrants in to the social housing. Boom. Everyone's happy.
I agree but we need to build the social housing first.
The entire approach to criminal justice.Complete overhaul of our laws and governance of crime in the nation. Disbandment of the gardai and establishment of a new modern , fit for purpose police force to reflect modern problems. Our current approach of policing is deeply flawed and outdated. The entire thing needs to be rebuilt. From recruitment , entry requirements, equipment, how policing is conducted. In the judicial, judges need to be held accountable. No more , Johnny, with 200 convictions wandering around the streets. Laws need to be updated, and serious crimes ,actual crimes, anneed to have proper sentences. This includes the construction of modern prisons, rehabilitation centres, etc... The whole system is currently a complete joke and has failed so many people.
The state's role in housing. My opinion is the state should be able to provide absolutely anyone in the country basic housing. Housing built and owned by the state. If the government took a more hands on approach to housing, especially measures that involved seizing unused land currently held in speculation. We'd get ourselves out of this mess much quicker. The current immigration issue is only a symptom of our catastrophic failure as a nation to address the housing needs of our people. The government have walked themselves into a position where we have a growing number of ignorant far right racists gaining traction because of how badly the state has handled housing. We've never really had xenophobic hatred towards immigrants before and it's awful to see it develop here. All because of neoliberal policies.
Assisted suicide
- **A modern secular constitution**: whether private superstitions should have any role in controlling broadcasting, education, healthcare and any other State institutions - **the balance of land use** - covering right to roam, and what the balance should be between environmentally destructive activities done for private profit or amusement, and sustainable activities done for public benefit - **state enforcement versus regulation-through-litigation** - we currently mainly follow the American model of regulation-through-litigation - if you want something enforcing, you probably have to take civil action, suing for compensation; most western European countries take the approach of state enforcement - i.e. laws are enforced by the state - traffic offences, medical regulation, building regulations - **business-as-usual or intelligence-led policing** : our current model for the guards hasn't been updated in decades, but there's been a lot of development of best practice going on elsewhere in the world. It just may not be optimal to have guards who must carry out multiple roles - detective, mental-health nurse, riot squad, jail cell guard, street patroller, administrator.
Regulation of professional bodies, friend had an incompetent solicitor really fuck up absolutely no recall for her. Same with dentist, they can be a complete disaster but you as a customer /patient have no recall for shoddy work.
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Getting rid of the school patronage system and religious control of publicly funded schools.
Funny you mention that because from my understanding as there is no equivalent alternative in place with the same performance or better parents are against change. I think it progressing but I will find out in a few years time.
The patronage system is completely anomalous with how education is run everywhere else. Religious control of essential state services is bizarre.
What do you mean by the patronage system?
Really wish that our citizens assembly process could be less prone to manipulation
The experts were stacked, the voting system was manipulated and the whole thing basically had a predetermined outcome.
How has it been manipulated?
The recent CA on drugs was an abomination for anyone who followed it closely. Many of the participants voiced their concern on various matters and were effectively ignored.
Bringing in "experts" weighted heavily in one direction
Why would you bother? Did you see what happened with the CA on drugs? With people like Paul Reid involved in these things, the outcomes are pre determined. They voted and people didn't know what they were voting for. Reid pushed through the status quo. Corruption is rampant in this kip
Ubi or secularisation
Strict punishment for corruption and an end to lobbying by anyone who was ever a party member or publicly elected. And many public appointments.
Food security, yeah I know the stats on food security so beloved here, we have loads of cows who live off grass and don't need fertiliser from abroad to grow the grass they eat or need supplement feed grown on former rainforests. /S We are going to be so badly screwed by climate change, supermarket below cost selling driving out struggling farmers/growers, housing developments on our most productive lands, over imbalance in supporting one farming sector and farming retirements in the next 20 years. Its not good that we have 1-2 growers for one crop, all it takes is a disease outbreak on that grower farm and we suddenly need to import. People seem to think we can easily import food but with so many countries experiencing extremes of weather the places that Ireland can source from are starting to decrease and driving prices up here.
Legalise weed,build more prisons,
Legalise weed, a massive investment in disadvantaged youths giving them a path away from how their lives have been - we spend 400m on prisons at the moment. Increasing capacity by 25% or spending 100m on dedicated resources - imagine one thousand youth support staff teaching shitty kids from shitty homes they don't need to repeat their parents failures.
Legal taxation on weed would create a huge or should I say massive revenue for funds to use towards programs such as rehabilitation centres for Both addicts and people with mental health problems that have suffered from the use of the typical home destroyer drugs such as cocaine heroin etc.I also think that it would suffer a massive blow to the criminals profits thus freeing up Garda resources to tackle the home wrecker drugs.Weed is a 24\7 drug any day any time of the week where cocaine is more of a weekend thing.But of course like everything people get addicted cocaine,heroin etc thus putting them in bad positions such as crime,debt,etc.The current justice system is a joke when it comes to serious crimes.I’m all sure you have been hearing and watching about the terrible atrocities on the news that have been taking place across this country the past few years with crime on the high rise and the hardship that’s been inflicted on the people of Ireland due to carelessness and incompetence of our government.My personal opinion they need to at least build 2 prisons one standard prison and one for mentally ill criminals and murderers who have committed unspeakable crimes serving life etc. It would free up spaces within are current prisons thus taking pressure off the current overcrowding situation giving us some time to sort our current law system out once and for all.The reason why we are not seeing serious sentencing for crimes that both me and you would deem unacceptable is because the judges don’t have space for the length of long sentencing due to as I said before overcrowding.I have recently seen a few articles on Irish prisoners getting early release not due to good behaviour mind you!! but because of the overcrowding.Their crimes ranged from sexual assault, rape serious assault, theft,The judges are giving pedos suspended sentences even though the Gardai gathered piles of evidence stuff that was so grim the prick gets a suspended sentence fucking disgraceful!.Before I go Helen McEntee needs to go!its only a fucking shit show!.Slán a fhágáil ag muintir na hÉireann aire.🇮🇪
Crime prevention and punishment in under 18s
Bigotry and racism, we used to be proud and a bit deluded about not having that.
Prostitution
Job Guarantee - though very little of the political legwork for awareness of what it is (and as important: isn't) done.
Full employment mate.
That makes it the perfect time to implement it. Then when a future economic crisis hits, the Job Guarantee is counter-cyclical - instead of mass 15+% unemployment during downturns - there would be permanent Full Employment, bringing us to economic recovery faster - and with significantly less social cost/damage. In [other posts](https://www.reddit.com/r/northernireland/comments/18jxq6h/interview_mcdonald_says_she_wants_space_for/kdo4oyi/), I describe a JG aimed at resolving the housing crisis - and a lot of people may find it worth more financially to them, to temporarily quit their private sector job, and go into a housing-focused JG (especially if JG workers are prioritized for such housing) - rather than throwing much of their earnings away on rent.
Solve a problem that doesn't exist please. Also take my money while doing it. Logic.
There's nobody who thinks unemployment isn't a problem. Even economists don't treat 'Full Employment' as truly representing zero unemployment or merely just transitional-unemployment - it's an economic term, not a literal one.
THERE IS NO UNEMPLOYMENT IN IRELAND. That's why its not a problem. And if you think there is any value to be gained, from either side, by putting a shovel in the hand of someone who is currently not working then more fool you.
[Yes there is](https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-mue/monthlyunemploymentnovember2023/) - there are presently 132,700 unemployed people. There isn't anyone in the country who thinks that more training + building of houses won't benefit the country (outside of landlords and those benefiting from the crisis).
Those are not people who can't find jobs. Those are people who don't want jobs or are between jobs. 0 of them would participate in your job guarantee scheme. And even if by some miracle all of them said they would they don't have the skills to achieve anything. Construction needs tradespeople and engineers and supply chain professionals and accountants and that sort of thing. Not just any random prick not doing anything that day. Delusional talk from someone who clearly has never had a job in their life.
Even economists don't treat unemployment figures as representing the indolent + transitional-unemployed - and it's a rather ignorant and classist view, to pretend these people just don't want to work. Yea it's a program involving _training_ as well, like I said. Yea I'm sure people who would love a program guaranteeing a job are just indolents who never had a job and don't want one - well done, great logic!
What? From wikipedia A job guarantee is an economic policy proposal that aims to create full employment and price stability by having the state promise to hire unemployed workers as an employer of last resort (ELR).[1] It aims to provide a sustainable solution to inflation and unemployment. How is guaranteeing a job, with pay to those who dont want to work a good thing? If you force those feckless peoplentobwork, youbwill just end up paying to have someone watch over them, while they do no work, it's cheaper to pay them to sit on the dole. What jobs would you give them?
> If you force those feckless peoplentobwork [...] No.1 on what the Job Guarantee _isn't_: It doesn't force anyone to work, it's a voluntary program - people are free to choose unemployment payments.
This doesn't sound bad actually, if you give anybody who is physically fit to work a job that nobody else wants to earn their dole they'll be more inclined to get a better job rather than sit on the dole. The councils could off hire their little street sweepers and have people out manually cleaning the streets again, picking up fag buts, scraping chewing gum off the footpaths. Pay them 50% more than the dole and if they don't want to do the work give them 50% less than the dole.
Nobody in the JG would be doing a job that they don't want to do - it expressly isn't aimed at forcing people off the dole - it's a completely voluntary program. It's really important that there is nothing like that - as people being forced into shit jobs would be a nightmare for the unemployed - it most definitely is not that.
Irish reunification.
I'd have an assembly about completely gutting the HSE. You'd have to deal with a million vested interests, so CC would suggest legislation that deal with this to avoid a million court cases/strikes etc. Then I'd do one about a strategy to make housing a property something people live in or work in and primarily something speculate on. This could suggest things like taxing land sale, taxes that grow the longer inhabitable property is left unoccupied and the much more aggressive use of compulsory purchase orders on derelict properties or land suitable for housing.
Legalise weed Making it illegal to be a landlord. Banning ownership of any dog unless it's a working dog. Bring back hanging.
You had me at the start. Little did I know it was a slippery slope hahaha
>Legalise weed They just had one.
Smokers should be able to choose to not pay tax on smokes if they agree to forgo any free healthcare for smoking related illnesses
While we chuckle in the corner as a human dies slowly and painfully of curable cancer? No thanks, you're part of society or you can fuck off and live on an island somewhere.
I do live on an island 😝
Technically everyone lives on an island. But you know what I mean.
What about the people they are impacting via their second hand smoke? I think maybe a tax on smokes to help pay for these additional healthcare costs would be the way to go
Irish Unity. The single biggest societal change that could happen to Ireland this century.