The basis of my idea is that Ireland should strive to a target of having zero garbage waste in the country. I believe that in this day and age nothing should have to go into a landfill. To achieve this I believe that the state should build recycling plants throughout the country. The key point of my idea is that people on welfare would be used to work in the recycling plant to sort through the rubbish. This may sound a little extreme but let me briefly explain how I believe this will work. I think that anyone who has been on welfare long term would be required to work for one week in every month in the recycling plant. This should not impact the individuals ability to continue to search for a full time job as the system would allows the individual 3 weeks to do so. I believe that in the week that the individual works in the recycling plant that their welfare payments should be doubled or that they should receive the minimum wage. This additional income would be a huge help to those str More...

The aim of this proposal is to show that changing a single fundamental concept of social welfare would cause a ripple effect, resulting in the following benefits to the Irish nation: • Eliminate the need for a minimum wage – Making Ireland a very competitive place for companies to locate to. • Eliminates the “I could earn more by not working” trap – Thus encouraging (and not penalizing) people for joining the workforce. • Eliminate the need for a minimum age to receive state pension – In fact this proposal would make the concept of state pension redundant.

I believe that you should work for your unemployment benefit. Want I mean by this is that you have to do a few hours of work in the week for some various voluntary organisations, (charitable/ Sports) and public sector. This would only be a few hours as the person that is unemployed still needs time to look for their aspired job. If the person does not fur fill their required hours their unemployment benefit would be reduce accordantly. Ideally the unemployed person does unemployment work similar to their previous employment, qualification or skill. E.g. plumber fixes a leek in public building. What this does for the unemployed person • Give them a purpose to their week • They are learning a skill • It may stop them getting use to doing nothing thus may motivate them to get a job • Work experience as many of the unemployed are under 25 For the government • Their are so many jobs in the public sector that an extra hand in the week can ease the pressure • Help keep Irelan More...

I can solve the problem that many Irish people have in dealing with non-Irish nationals signing for social welfare and also receiving child benefit or children’s allowance in Ireland. The European Union did not foresee a problem with the free movement of EU members to live and work in each other’s countries. It is now time to review the present situation and discuss how we can overcome our difficulties in sustaining our economy and building a comfortable future under new social and new economic difficulties. We must welcome all people to our communities but without cost to our government and people. Under the EU Ireland accepts people of other EU countries to receive Social Welfare & Child Benefit. It is a reality and a consequence of EU membership. This unforeseen cost must be borne by the EU and not by a small Economy. The migration of people across Europe to a small Economy like Ireland and qualify for social welfare can only continue while the Irish Budget lasts. Then we wil More...

GIFT is an initiate that would gather the unemployed Irish workforce to volunteer, educate and barter their skills ENGAGING STUDENTS With the students and volunteers working for the most disadvantaged in our society and by keeping those involved busy with meaningful participation, we grow and encourage a generous ethos for the future and preventing any further costly decay of the most venerable in society. APPLYING WORKFORCE After acquiring work experience this way, the next step is to utilize the unemployed workforces’ skills on a part time basis, keeping your welfare benefits while being less costly for the employer, leaving more money for both parties to be spent in the economy. TRADING TRAINING Where education and training cannot be afforded, a bartering of skills together for a common goal. Alternatively an employer needs a specifically skilled and large workforce, he can hire one training coach who would educate and lead the new tailor made team, keeping our workforces e More...

This proposal aims to empower our nation again through a joint venture scheme between the Department of Social and Family Affairs and the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment. The scheme will aim to deliver jobs to the unemployed on the ground locally. This will be done by using the extensive enterprise network that is already in existence in Ireland by getting all the industries more active in the network to create jobs and bring Irish business closer together. The end goal of the proposal is support new and existing jobs to prepare Ireland for the future.

"There are so many people in your neighbourhood," so the song goes, but in today's economic climate of high unemployment, a lot of that valuable people power is not being used. My proposal is to modify the present Welfare system. Instead of 'Signing On,' Jobseekers 'Sign Up' to a national community scheme that pays people to use their expertise, talents and skills for the benefit of their communities.

Look around you! Everywhere there are people in this country who can make a huge contribution in conjunction with others. My proposal deals with our abundant under utilized natural resources in a sound eco-friendly inclusive way. Bringing people together in the community to start growing things and from this growing ourselves . . locally. Doing something as old as time but in a new way with broader scope. It all starts with an allotment, sharing ideas, finding consensus and Growing Up!

The government should issue a personalised Laser card, similar to the 3v card offered by permenant TSB, to control the payment of social welfare benefits to claimants. Utilising current banking techonology , Chip And Pin, would be crucial to the success of this, and should be made available by the current banking infrastructure. This card would be strictly controlled and based on the owners PPS number or another unique identifier. This would be used to ensure individuals would be unable to register for more than one card. Once issued with this card, all of the owners social welfare payments, Dole, Children allowance, disability etc will be automatically credited to this card . Once the payments have been credited to these cards, users will be able to use them similar to a laser card to buy products in Shops in the Republic of Ireland.. In summation, this card, while there will be a cost to implement, will eradicate social welfare cheats, ease the burden on the claimants by not having More...

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