What’s your most controversial opinion? **Read OP** **Mod Note in Post #3372**

In order to have permission to land in Ireland all airlines and shipping companies should take a copy of every passenger's passport and visa which would be emailed to Irish immigration officials. Should someone arrive at the point of entry seeking asylum of any way, shape or form and they do not have any identification (which is quite a common scenario) it should be very easy to find their original documents. If it is established that this person arrived as an economic migrant without a valid visa for coming to Ireland - then that airline or shipping company pays the bill for sending them back in addition to a nice monetary fine.

Also think this should apply to Irish abroad too. Many people have fought hard to legally enter the USA - why should the lads who don't play by the rules get a free pass?

The rights of the victim should supercede the rights of the criminal. I also think the spirit of the law should always be taken into account as opposed to solely the letter of it.

One more thing - if there was a way to create an online system of voting where we could have mini referenda for issues in society - this could easily represent the silent majority who often are ignored when the media panders to the loudmouthed twitter opinionists.

I think we'll agree to disagree on this one. But we do both acknowledge that it's the humans at fault anyway. Whether it be humans using empty cars for just themselves (I'm totally one of them, but I hate people and I work opposite most people so no lifts to be given, not that I would anyway, bad experiences of car sharing when I'm the one driving), or directly causing congestion due to errors in driving and not paying attention. I still think it would be an improvement even if there's more people using 1 at a time, because you're eliminating the bad driving in general (which is cause for the vast, vast majority of collisions, which cause delays) to double parking "for 2 minutes", to blatant abandoment of veh-hih-kels, and autonomous vehicles won't be braking and accelerating like a fanta filled fvucker and instead moderate all traffic to ensure the least amount of impact from merging, etc.

ninja short journeys, sure, I’m with ya…. Again regarding public transportation, though that’s only useful if you are on those routes.

I can drive to a certainly popular and almost necessary public transportation hub / amenity in 15-20 minutes, door to door.

using public transportation…

In minutes…

7 - walk to bus stop

5 - wait for bus ( no shelter )

15 - bus journey

4 - walk to other bus stop ( no shelter )

5 - wait for bus

15 - bus journey

Reliably guesstimating a 51 minute journey all going to plan. so we’ll over a 100% difference in transit times between public and private car transportation.

millions of people use this facility annually… yet in a highly populated and densely populated area many of whom work at or around this location…. There has been practically fućking ZERO improvement in public transport options…. The opposite… one bus route was entirely cancelled….so.

when the government get serious about providing far reaching, frequent, effective, efficient, modern, reliable public transport then people will get out of cars ! When they don’t, people will choose other alternatives, like cars. It’s a country with an over abundance of rainfall too so…. Not exactly a master’s degree required to see why cars are king.

there are about 535 cars per 1000 people in Ireland. Which isn’t many by international standards, but give people, far reaching, frequent, effective, efficient, modern, reliable public service transport then more people will get out of cars…it’s simply economics….. when I lived in Paris, you could have gifted me a brand new 5 series BMW…I’d have sold it in an hour…. No use for it... 14 metro lines, tramways, 5 suburban express rail lines….intercity rail….funicular…

The Famine wasn't a genocide.

All medical professionals should have to do 2 years working in the health system here before they get their certs to flit off to Dubai and beyond.

That way we would never be short of doctors, nurses, OT, physios, etc.

And when that was up and running, I’d do the same for teachers and any other profession where we have an acute shortage and as they have received a subsidised education (yes, I know its still expensive)

Your right, might aswell lower to 15 so seen as their at it anyway.

That might be true...but when I did my masters via work (they paid for it)..I had to sign an agreement to stay on for two years or pay the cost of it...maybe something like that could help.

yippee, lets make a critical sector so toxic, that nobody goes into it in the first place, definitely should work, lets try this!