If you were in charge of the 13 Billion windfall for Ireland what would you use it for?

Prison space or a prison ship or two.

O/T for Gardai until enough Gardai are trained.

More funding for DPP

More truancy and youth diversion services.

Councils given funds to turn land zoned residential in to land zoned residential with services accessible.

floating LNG terminal for security of supply because those wind turbines need backup.

More deportation flights for those who have reached the end of the road on the Asylum process and have been shown not to be legitimate Refugees.

More university places rather than taking in foreign students for respectable careers that Parents would be happy to see their offspring persuing. More training places for absolutely everything on the critical skills list and then taking those critical skills off the list.

I worked hard and saved through my late twenties and early twenties to get a deposit and be able to get a loan to buy a house but that was because my parents had also worked hard and saved and brought me up to understand hard work and long term goals.

There are a load of people who's parents didn't ever work amd so didn't teach their kids to work.and now those adults need housing. It's not fair that they are forced to live in rental properties just because their parents didn't raise them to save or even to work so I think we should buy them all houses in nice estates.

Finish the Children's Hospital. Should just about cover it.

politicians and planners are increasingly of the mind as am I and many people using the current Dublin Airport… that with the unprecedented nutsville, mental, off the scale population growth, a second airport is / will be needed in Dublin.

invest in the DAA, which is still a 100% Irish owned state company so it can be done.. to build another small airport….comparable cities like Glasgow, Stockholm have two airports and it will be needed and so can be done…. Will have to be done….

More prisons with electric chairs

One thing for sure is contractors prices will be going up.

As The government and Apple unlawfully colluded to deny the taxpayer the benefit of this money during a time of extreme austerity and hardship I think a portion of it should be put in trust as a hardship fund that people can apply to in memory of those who succumbed to the pressures of that time. Some of them I knew myself were business people who could have maybe survived had they got the preferential deal Apple got.

That's a noble idea! I'd be interested to hear what your criteria would be to apply for funds though. I'm not being smart but how do you identify the deserving from the chancers?

I still stick with my rebalance the Dublin vs The Rest idea (but I'd deffo give you a few quid for the above!)

I agree it would need to have criteria, what those would be will take a bit of thinking about. But high up there would be a fund for people in difficult situations through no fault of their own, accidents, acts of god, hardship due to the actions of others etc.

North Haverbrook, Ogdenville

It needs to be pumped into healthcare

Ah, but what else did the Romans ever do for us ?

….and again, most of our current inflationary issues are from our supply side not our demand side, i.e. not from the increase in the money supply, but actually from simply mark ups and wide scale profiteering in certain critical sectors such as energy and other critical sectors!

Build schools - the temporary portacabins are a blight and a scam for well connected people.

Solar panels for schools and hospitals.

…its not entirely planning, but it definitely plays a part, but yes finance plays a much smaller role, we do have serious capacity constraints occurring within housing, we simply dont have enough people to build, but focusing on the demand side of the problem, is not gonna address our supply side of the problem, i.e. providing more money into this sector wont resolve the capacity constraint, but will simply keep pushing up prices, which of course works well for current owners of property and land, including institutional entities…..

No podge we are best to pay of debt and I will tell you why. Podge prices for everything has gone out of kilter and the tradesmen, public sector and other vested interested are all licking the lips looking at this pot of money and thinking there is one hell of trough coming for me a little piggie to put my nose in. Those in power have shown they cant manage the current tax take we are taking in and the knock on effect of this mismanagement is a serious fueling of inflation when a phucking bike shed costs 330k or over 2Billion to build a hospital what happens then is the tax payers dime is seen as a barter account for those in power with no one actually over seeing it. You can see it even with the whole RTE debacle and its consistent as in it costs the tax payers a shed load of money and no one is accountable not one sacking. Everyone wants a little slice of the tax payers pie and no one is standing guard over said pie. The spend on almost everything should be stopped ( so no increase in current spend and a full stop on all capital projects until the costs are gone through with a fine tooth comb) with both this windfall and all taxes until a system is set up where its all transparent and declared well ahead of time before something like this bike shed is built and where someone is accountable. Until then there needs to be a serious C change within the groups that control the purse alla politicians and the perma-gov more accountability with them losing the same amouont on their pensions if they cost the tax payer money . So with the exception of a spend to set up a proper transparent procurement policing system for our public purse the money should be put off debt. I know there are numerous areas needing it but at what point do we call a hault on the tax payers money being pished off the edge of a cliff.