So Prime Time done a piece this evening on retail crime and how its only getting worse and how

I deal with people most days who are in and out of prison. There's one common denominator. They don't care

Join the future early. Create a store with only touchscreens showing what's available, they select it (or pre-purchase en-route to the store) and they get handed the items through a container built into thief proof glass. No products on shelves to rob, can't be robbed. I wonder how those Amazon stores are getting on...

Start with education. For example, Prime time “did” a piece ….

Jail isn't a deterrent for them. I could tell you stories only for the official secrets act.

And there's no room in the jails. We need to build more.

It's almost impossible to accuse someone of or check for this, even if it's blatant (and could then be a trap to sue for defamation) and even when convicted, there will usually be no time served with the fine not covering the costs and likely to be unpaid anyway.

ireland Is one of the best country’s in the world to be a criminal .

Judges who would believe any yarn about you , free legal aid solicitors who have no morals , too few prisons , too few diligent guards & a heap of politicians who excuse criminals to suit some left wing idiology.

You get a decent core welfare package and as good as free house from the tax payers, dont ever work yourself , shoplift what you need , rob houses and sell drugs and a few accident claims then to pay for holidays , new cars/vans , lavish communion party’s , massive headstones and laugh at the law abiding going to work !

Because we have been doing that for decades, better facilities, free houses, youth diversion projects costing billions, role models in the form of team leaders. Better education, you can't get them to go to school, its better craic and cooler to go robbing and scutting.

So we do more of it because it has been working very well so far, hasn't it?

Classic boards response. Take their welfare!!!! Because leaving them destitute would mean they never steal again.

Classic leftie response, all outrage and no practical solutions.

The criminal justice system is failing to mitigate against these issues so without building more prisons for these people to be locked up in how exactly do issues like this get dealt with?

Welfare should only be provided with the condition that social compact is upheld.

This isn't 2009, jobs are available to people claiming welfare if they wish to look take up employment, but guess what? They don't want to. So if they're breaking the law take away their welfare and force them to work.

As others have stated, Ireland is a fantastic country to be a criminal, it's a legitimate career choice, that needs to change.

What's your solution to this issue then?

A few lashes might sort them out and no, not fake eye lashes either. For those that have multiple convictions.

seriously though, the problem is that there is no punishment for disregarding the law, and it’s not just scrotes look at that Burke fella, literally doesn’t do anything he’s been told to do, even by a judge and what happens? He’s become a celebrity. Only in Ireland.

Parental supports require a buy in from parents. Typically they need to get up off their arses and go somewhere to avail of them.

Councillors the same thing.

Career guidance for young people in environments where nobody has a job is a bit of a hail Mary also.

These approaches also ignore the vast numbers of adult criminals who will continue to offend while the younger generation is slowly steered away from a life of crime.

I appreciate the requirement for holistic approaches but there's also a need to de-incentivise criminality for those who are currently engaged in criminality.

The two need to happen in tandem.

Unleash the social workers.

ok but no irish government is going to allow social welfare to be docked any time soon. take money off a shoplifting woman on the scratcher who has 2 kids at home to feed. like we have to be realistic.