Now for my disclaimer. I’m not saying immigration control will fix everything or that democracy will turn Ireland into a utopian society. Closing our borders is a temporary solution until we reform our democracy so we can reclaim our right to have a say in our own country.
So presenting a 3-point plan to Make Ireland Grand Again, that we can work with to fix the housing crisis and our policing mess.
1. Border protection is every country's duty
Temporarily close the borders. All the polls say that the vast majority of Irish people know that Ireland is full and we do not have houses of the 752k Irish people stuck for homes to call their own. Easily without question, we cannot take any more asylum seekers. 60% of migrants come in illegally with no documents, this has to stop now.
We can talk about Danish, Australian or Japanese-style immigration control. We can look into how Thailand and India handle property rights for natives. Whatever the long-term immigration policy is, it has to be decided democratically and it has to be made for the benefit of all Irish people especially.
2. Participatory democracy is a fundamental right
Ever since the bank bailouts, economic policy in this country has made the rich richer and the poor poorer, this ends now.
Using the same level of technology we use to do banking on our computers, we can use electronic voting. Normal legislation involving public spending can easily be voted on electronically. Parliamentary democracy isn't producing financial or regulatory wizards. Everything in Ireland is getting worse, and we need to find a way to slow down the production of terribly planned legislation. The same idea can be applied to local councils.
For major changes in criminal law, that can be done through a full-blown referendum, like have done before many times.
For every piece of legislation presented, every Irish person gets the right to express their view on why it should or should not be passed. The high-courts then can rule if the legislation violates our fundamental rights, as what they should be doing already.
3. Returning to a stable market economy
Some people may not like the Celtic tiger years, but it was way more stable than what we have now. Irish people were allowed to work, developers built homes, and unemployed people could live on the dole in bedsits. Every week property market experts have stated clearly that for new restrictions on the market that comes in, more jobs and homes will be lost.
Nearly half the population might not like my full-scale approach to free-market economics, but if we follow points 1-2-3, we will have a more open and democratic way to discuss public policy. We can freely information on what bits of regulations need to be removed so we can build a further 752k houses for Irish people.
Conclusion
So hopefully this makes sense to most people, and trolls don't try to derail the conversation with some minor points that I wasn't clear on. But definitely from talking to most Irish workers on big issues like covid policy, the housing crisis and the currently developing Gender Affirmation scandals, that we can all agree that government policy largely benefits a few, while making most of us worse off.
Close the borders now, and then let’s have a chat on how our country is run.