Ireland badly needs a new centre-right party - Here's my proposal

There is a couple of points about this. If the land is worth 14m based on the deal for social and affordable housing provision, what is the corresponding value for the provision of that if it was sold at the market value?

I don't see anywhere how this analysis by architect Mel Reynolds concludes it will cost 60,000 less per unit if the council developed directly by contracting a builder. What I do know is that state bodies doing this are absolutely woeful, after all, look at the cost mess when the state has contracted out the building of the New Children's Hospital. Are there even any examples of what councils do efficiently?

I think fine Gael would be more Liberal or woke in areas like gay rights lgbt issues etc otherwise its hard to see a big difference in policy's between them the problem they face is the greens and sinn féin are getting more votes they can no longer be ignored

People no longer think of sinn féin as being close to the IRA as it was in the 80s

The government has land all over the place they could build large estates in certain areas and appoint contractors builders to build houses

But they try that and they all get objected too daily!!!

Do you want left-wing riots, mass strikes and civil disobedience? Cos this is how you get left-wing riots, mass strikes and civil disobedience!

At least your views are actually right-wing (ok, far-right and fascist), though, as opposed to the "vaguely centre-left except for crime, that's centre-right, isn't it?" lists that have been posted earlier, so I guess you get kudos for that. Your actual list, though?

* Inheritance tax: there's already a generous exemption. If you're inheriting a fortune that you haven't earned, why shouldn't you pay tax on the windfall?

* "Reform the tax bases" - a little vague, here? How?

* /sigh. Cap welfare payments to the equivalent of minimum wage, what? Populist boll-ocks. €334.70 is the max benefit on Jobseeker's Benefit for someone with an adult dependent. So that's for two people. A 20-year-old on minimum wage will have earned that in 31 hours work...

* When there was no lone parents allowance, the outcome was forced adoption, illegal adoptions, backstreet abortions and Magdalene Laundries. Now, you may think yeah, no problem with any of that. I think you'll find the rest of the world has moved on, and we're not going back.

* You do know the 'NGO' bit of 'quango' stands for 'non-government organisation', yeah? You can't abolish an NGO. Unless you're going full fash, and getting rid of the right to free assembly.

* Permanent incarceration? Hugely expensive. You sure you'd not rather liquidate them? Maybe recycle the organs for transplant? And the protein to feed the poor?

* Why wouldn't your "papers please" checks apply to the CTA? Do Irish ppl not claim in both Ireland and Britain any more?

* Abolishing public sector unions would be pretty national socialist. There's that pesky right to free assembly again...

* When you 'remove red tape' and don't do the necessary checks on enterprise you end up with things like the banking crisis (financial regulation), Grenfell Tower (building regulations) and workers who have to piss in bottles so they make their targets (workers' rights)

* Actual secret police, informing on neighbours! So far-right it's gone far-left, full Stasi! 😂😁😁

* I'm with you on the later opening for off-licences!

But yeah - fairly wide-ranging far-right policies there. What will you do when the EU and others start imposing sanctions for the human rights abuses you're proposing?

The amount of elements of this that are outright fascist is actually quite scary.

Its not a centre right party you want, its a re-generation of Ailtirí na hAiséirghe. Quite a lot of your proposals align.

You missed out on removing any sort of freedom of the press if they are barred from reporting on strikes.

This is up there with the pairing that wanted to be instated as dictators of Ireland.

So, I assume you have no problem with wealth concentrating in the hands of the few?

Congratulations

Bollox, ask most scientists.

Technically not all other income is taxed. Anyone in receipt of a government allowance is not taxed on that allowance. A government benefit, with the exception of Child Benefit (which was more accurately named when it was the Children's Allowance), is, however, taxable.

You're correct about Child Benefit not being means assessed or taxable. I can understand where you're coming from regarding it seeming pointless in taxing government payments. The problem is that some payments, such as the Contributory State Pension, Jobseeker's Benefit, Pandemic Unemployment Payment, etc. are, indeed, taxable, and many do have to pay taxes on them, in situations where they might be in employment (part or full-time, depending on the payment), or have a small, separate pension. It would be much fairer if you had a system where no government payments are taxable, or less ideally, all are. Going back to the original point, it seemed to be worth noting that there is a sizeable percentage of the population (several hundred thousand people, per the stats) in receipt of income that is not taxable.