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1) General Forum

errror111

User for 20 days

  1. Activity

1) General forum

Open ideas
  1. 31 votes
    3

    Reduce the number of TD’s to 100 divide them into 10 groups of 10, to cover all departments,

  2. 74 votes
    3

    Debt forgiveness: When homes are repossessed, the homeloan should be cleared / written off

  3. 105 votes
    1

    Democratise investment

  4. 221 votes
    3

    Re-enact Justin Keating 1975 legislation on oil and gas and extend this to all OUR natural resources

Recent Comments

  1. Your obviously a FF voter. Maybe you deserve to take the financial pain but I don’t.
    Please refrain from saying “we” in your posts, if your greed and apathy caused this crisis then say so but we did not as I did not get greedy

    0 Do not pass this debt burden to our children .. Deal with it quickly. Take the pain fast and upfront - 12 days ago

2) Pursue economic development that serves people forum

Open ideas
  1. 5 votes
    3

    Nationalise the banks, if that has not been completed by mistake by our bungling politicians, and ru

  2. 11 votes
    1

    Put into law the Directive Principles of Social Policy as enshrined in article 45 in ourconstitution

  3. 29 votes
    3

    Create an economy to serve the interest of the common good.

  4. 39 votes
    3

    Invest in, and maximize job creation in a green economy

3) A more ambitious response to environmental challenges forum

Open ideas
  1. 7 votes
    1

    Strategy for a green economy

  2. 25 votes
    3

    Implement a renewed sustainable development strategy

  3. 50 votes
    3

    Fully implement Agenda 21

  4. 60 votes
    3

    Serious fines for violating building regulations

4) Enhanced economic, social and cultural participation forum

Open ideas
  1. 31 votes
    3

    Make fixed-benefit pensions for workers compulsory

5) Public sector renewal forum

Open ideas
  1. 8 votes
    1

    Strengthen, individualise, and increase the flexibility of, the social protection system.

  2. 21 votes
    3

    Public sector pay should be capped at the top end

  3. 26 votes
    3

    Involve staff, who know the services and needs and are equally frustrated at service failings.

  4. 31 votes
    3

    Increase the tax take and broaden the tax base.

6) Democratic reform forum

Open ideas
  1. 18 votes
    3

    Prohibit close relatives from election in same constituency for minimum of 5 years

  2. 22 votes
    3

    Term limits for members of the Dail.

  3. 31 votes
    3

    Citizens should be able to propose new laws or change existing ones

  4. 102 votes
    1

    All decision makers should be elected, mandatable and recallable

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