The case for a Land Observatory in Ireland. Irish farmland is being bought up by billionaire investors who are able to pay treble the current market value. Farmers who need to expand to remain viable, or new entrant farmers are completely shut out of the bidding when these individuals or syndicates wish to add to their vast land portfolios.  The result is a growing monopoly by these new absentee landlords which spells the death knell of the family farm. Inflated land values have serious implications for Capital Acquisition tax going forward (gift and inheritance tax). Land purchase by state sponsored foreign vulture funds includes the buying up of thousands of hectares for forestry. There are growing concerns about the environmental sustainability of land use by corporate agri-industrial landowners. All this is happening now with no sign of slowing down. While there is no law against massive land acquisition, it is unconstitutional: Article 45 paragraph (v) of our 1937 Constitution holds that:  “The State shall, in particular, direct its policy towards securing....that there may be established on the land in economic security as many families as in the circumstances shall be practicable." But the State is currently doing nothing to honour this commitment.

Allow employers to pay full wages of their staff - and reimburse them after. €203 per week simply isn't enough to live on. In other European countries, people who have lost their jobs temporarily as a result of COVID-19 will keep getting paid up to 80% of their wages. Now is not the time to punish employers who want to keep paying their staff.

- A shift from post its to digital notepads - Same legal status for electronic document storage - Compulsory paperless billing -A ban on business and commercial letters - A limit on print runs during a transition era, followed by a total ban of printers for offices worldwide

We are calling on the Minister for Health to end the exploitation of student nurses and midwives. He should: 1. Pay all final-year interns the same rate as healthcare assistants 2. Increase and expand the clinical placement allowance for all other students 3. Provide full health and safety protection to all students, including payment if they have to go on COVID-related leave

Do not ban dogs from beaches.

Midleton requires proper flood relief schemes to provide flood protection for the town. Stage 1 of the relief must be expedited, so the scheme can move forward.

We want the Irish Government to introduce the following: 1. The immediate introduction of new legislation to protect the living standards of workers who loose their jobs, as a result of their employment being wound up, due to liquidation. 2. To advance workers as the most important creditors in the case of liquidations. 3. For the government to introduce a statutory body resourced to carry out Liquidation/Administration processes. 4. For workers to have a right to access the terms of a collectively negotiated redundancy agreement through a statutory fund, in the event of liquidations. 5. For the government to immediately put in place a contingency fund that ensures any collective redundancy agreement terms are met in full to workers concerned

Chose an appropriate street installation for Athlone that celebrates our heritage, our people and our town

We demand that Ireland introduces postal voting rights for all Irish citizens abroad. Their inclusion is vital to creating a representative democracy that works for everyone, at home and abroad.

We call upon the Irish Government to fast-track a bypass of Kilrane Village in light of the increased traffic on the N25 going through the village to access Rosslare Europort since the implementation of Brexit in January 2021. We must stress that as a community that we are delighted to see Rosslare Europort thriving and welcome the added wealth and prosperity that this will bring to the whole area, but life in Kilrane Village should not be adversely affected by this. We welcome the announcement in December 2020 of a new access road to Rosslare Europort. We request that Kilrane be included as part of this new access road development and for the new access road to link north of Kilrane Village as a matter of urgency. We request this in light of the fact that Kilrane National School sits on the N25 and this increase in HGV traffic passing the school poses a great risk to the children of the school and area. We greatly welcome the progressive decision taken by Wexford County Council on the 1st of December 2020 regarding the new access road to Rosslare Port, a decision rectifying many issues around Rosslare Harbour regarding the transportation of freight in the area. We feel strongly as residents of Kilrane Village, that we should be afforded the same solutions to the same problems as were afforded to Rosslare Harbour. We urge the Irish Government to begin the process of urgently rectifying these issues and to begin discussions with all the relevant stakeholders to bring these issues to a safe and satisfactory conclusion for all, especially for the children of this area. We believe that our proposed solutions fit in with the strategic aims for Kilrane and Rosslare Harbour.