What would you do if you were dictator of Ireland?

I would rename the country, with the new name starting with double A, eg Aarrland or some such, to put us at the top of those gigantic drop-down lists for "nationality" or "Country" saving thousands of hours of collective scrolling.

The flag would be replaced with a new design in red, green and gold. Officially these colours would represent our natural heritage (green), our national debt (red) and our bright and shining future (gold). Actually these colours would be homage to to song Karma Chameleon.

C635

Snipers for the dogs , ( sorry dogs ) , killing people is too controversial..

Rocket launchers to be used on people who dump rubbish out of cars .. ( can't think of a reason not to )

Pick a letter to see how it works in AH 😬

Put the Burkes on display in a big circular cage at the top of Grafton Street and let passers-by take pot shots at them with balls of their own shyte.

but would you be a fair dictator and avail of it in all cases?

Lock all Healy-Rars it a mirrored room and play loud recordings of themselves 24/7 . So they realise how fcuking annoying they are.

Appoint a cabinet consisting of posters on this thread.

They clearly know how to run the country

'id lift the restrictions on building houses in the countryside

I’d provide free buses for kids for school in all areas and I’d tax parents a congestion tax who want to drop them to school in cars' - if you allow even more one off housing in the countryside then those buses would cost millions. restricted rural development is a good idea overall

'escooters would need a licence and insurance to be taken on roads and footpaths or else limit them to a very low speed' - im fairly sure there is already a limit on speed or power, whether that is enforced or not is debatable. pretty sure they arent meant to be on pavements either but i could be wrong on that. should have added something about drivers stopping/parking etc in cycle lanes too while you were at it

'no dole payments unless you work for it' - thats how it works (or its meant to anyway) but yes people do take advantage

sounds like the netherlands tbh, not the worst idea

I'd let the army/Garda take out any gang members without fear of repercussions

Okay, here we go! This will be a long one

• Introduce a two year mandatory national service irrespective of gender upon living secondary school. There will be three options
  • Military Service
  • Social Service (HSE/Eldercare/Childcare etc.)
  • Public Works Corps (Construction & Staff for Public Works projects, public housing, etc)
  • Decision on who goes where will depend on assessment by conscription board. Everyone will have to report for a week-long assessment
  • needs of individual "branches" will need to be met first, personal preference will only come into play once that's covered
• Massive Military Rearmament Program
• Massive recruitment & equipment improvement program for Garda Siochana
• Introduction of a mandatory ID card & residency registration scheme, akin to system currently in place in Germany, Austria and other European countries
• Term limits for all public office
• Committing a criminal offence while in office will, in addition to any sentences handed down by the courts, result in immediate dismissal from office, loss of any pension entitlements, and a ban on running for office for a certain blackout period starting with the end of the sentence
• Candidates for public office will be eligible if they were convicted of an offence within a certain period prior to their candidacy
  • Length of period will depend on severity of the offence
  • Certain offences, such as insurrection, incitement to hatred and/or violence, participation in organised crime or any type of sexual assault/coercion will result in permanent ineligibility for office
• Total rebuild of the criminal code
  • Mandatory minimum sentencing limits
  • Alcohol/drug influence will be taken as aggravating factor, not mitigating
  • Any motor-vehicle caused accident resulting in injury will result in automatic three year prison sentence
  • Probation/Bail/suspended sentences only for first time offenders, exceptions possible for juvenile offenders under certain circumstances, but no more than three exceptions per person
  • Abolition of Character Statements or any other external influence. Each sentence will only be based on the merits of the case
  • Upon conviction, property of the offender may be seized to cover the state's expenses in prosecuting the offence and compensating the victim
  • Identity of suspects / accused to be protected until sentencing to avoid "court of public opinion"
    • Exceptions may be made for known violent/dangerous individuals, or individuals that are currently on the run
• Complete Reform of local & regional government
  • Abolition of current county councils
  • Reinstatement of the four provinces as political entities with regional parliaments and extensive authority with regards to local infrastructure & planning, taxation & even local law enforcement
  • In addition to the four provinces, Greater Dublin, Cork City Metro area & Limerick city (possibly including Shannon) will be given provincial status
  • The same will go for greater Belfast upon successful reunification
  • Third-order representative bodies (Town/community councils) to be established for local administration
• Seanad to be reformed and made up by representatives of each of the seven provincial assemblies
  • Head of Province
  • Leader of opposition in provincial assembly
  • three representatives to be determined by other means
• Political parties with links to current paramilitary/criminal groups will be banned
• Garda to be reoriented as a national police force, along the lines of a Gendarmerie/FBI hybrid
• Significant infrastructure investment program
  • Completion of current motorway projects such as the M20, Cork ring road or M28, as well as creation of a northern motorway ring road around Limerick and the upgrading of existing roads between Cork & Rosslare to Motorway standard. <- This will be the last motorway work in the country
  • While additional road-building projects are to be avoided wherever possible, individual projects to "defuse" dangerous stretches of road are of course still possible.
  • Enforced construction of the Cork suburban rail network as well as a two-line LUS network and high capacity bus lanes
  • Construction of a suburban rail line connecting Limerick with Shannon Airport, as well as a LUAS line within the city
  • Enforce pedestrianisation of city centres & large scale construction of bike paths, cycle lanes and similar active travel infrastructure in every major town in the country
  • All new towns, residential developments, etc. are to be designed for active travel & public transit first, individual motor traffic is NOT a priority
  • Construction of a new South coast main line linking Cork with Waterford & Rosslare
  • Dual tracking of all main rail lines, elimination of grade crossings, upgrade of signalling systems, improvement of track bed to allow for higher speeds
  • Cork-Dublin mainline to be upgraded to high-speed line standards
  • Complete redesign of Limerick Junction to allow trains to enter the station from every direction without reversing
  • Complete redesign of Dublin Rail network, including the construction of a new central railway station & transit hub to replace the current termini at Connolly & Heuston
  • New Cross-town railway tunnel for Wexford including a new underground train station
  • Construction of new passenger terminal, aircraft stands and full-length parallel taxiways at Knock & Kerry Airport
  • Construction of full-length parallel taxiway at Cork Airport, possible extension of runway
  • Complete redesign of Shannon Airport, including removal of the 1940s&1950s era runway & taxiway remnants, a new terminal, demolition of the old terminal and, once again, a full length parallel taxiway.
  • Massive public housing construction program, focusing on medium-to-high density apartment blocks rather than single houses or endless estates of semi-detached houses
  • Ban on one-off housing unless it is directly connected to an active agricultural enterprise (New house for a farmer - okay, purely residential properties not)
  • Concerted program to empty out one-off housing in rural areas, both by tax incentives & above-market purchasing as well as construction of new housing estates and potential even new towns.
  • Continue facilitating remote working facilities in regional towns
• Nationalisation of all church & religious organisation property in Ireland not actively used for worship without compensation
• Complete secularisation of education system & public life (The Angelus on RTE can stay, I just like that thing somehow)
• Refocusing of RTE toward information & education, rather than entertainment
• Transfer of the responsibility to investigate the abuses in church run institutions such as the Magdalene laundries to the International Criminal Court in The Hague
• Complete ban on the ownership, mining or trade of cryptocurrencies, NFTs or other such intangible products -> Minimum three year jail term
• Massive reforestation program
• Illegal turf cutting or any type of harvesting operation in peat bogs to be punished with no less than ten years inprisonment
• Construction of large-scale offshore wind farms, coupled with new equally large scale pump-storage power stations along the coasts to act as "batteries" and allow for a more constant supply of electricity compared to the wind farms alone
• Construction of a number of nuclear power stations to further provide base load capacity
• Nationalisation of all utility companies
• Nationalisation of all private hospitals & healthcare providers
• Complete reform of the HSE, elimination of any administrative inefficiencies and focus of spending on frontline services
  • Individual hospitals, hospital groups or other healthcare facilities will no longer have their own HR, Finance or procurement departments
  • Establishment of a 24/7 non-emergency HSE hotline to help with everyday household ailments and assess whether a certain issue might require more urgent medical attention
  • Mandatory vaccination regime
• Increase in income taxes, motor tax, carbon taxes
  • 750% Penal tax on pick-up trucks & SUVs unless owner has an agricultural or logging background
• Introduction of a tax on excess profits, calculated on global revenue, rather than just that of any Irish subsidiary
• Introduction of a luxury tax on excessively high value products
• If the math works out, replace current social welfare system with universal basic income

That should be it for now. I'm sure I'll think of other things later!

I'd ban lists

I'd also bad people taking jokes too seriously.

And lists again.

Ban dictatorship government and implement a system of proportional representation elections to have a government implemented by the people. Only then do people get the government they want and deserve.

Fight me.

Didn't he also outlaw yogurt and women with short hair?

I'd ban the GAA.

Reduce the wages of elected officials by 50% and ban them from any other income. Make them show what they have personally done to improve the country/locality, or get fired without pay.

Remove the restriction on needing to be from a particular county to build a house in the county, but require all house/apartment buyers to be individuals, not companies.

Require all utility providers (gas, electricity, broadband, water, etc) to be run by the state and strictly not for profit.

Plus a bunch of what others have already said.

Oh and tax all religions/churches/ordained individuals and make them shelter the homeless and addicts on their property.

Impose Sharia law.

The extremist results would satisfy the right leaning people and the fact that it's an Islamic system would keep all the left leaning people happy and or too afraid to say anything against it.

Ban Trade Unions and make them illegal

Teachers have 30 days holidays, students can have 60 to suit parents for holidays etc..

Make it illegal to say you are a member of a travelling community - take away that legal right and obligation for the state to provide

Start another CAB & Customs unit to specifically deal with this, Rathkeale etc.

Social housing comes back to the state when you die it doesn't stay with the family