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  • Give Kingswood Football Club access to local pitches
    We are asking for full access to pitch 94 in Ballymount Park on Saturdays and Sundays. This would allow all our players to walk to training and matches, and access to a dressing room.
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    Created by Jess Spear Picture
  • Create a Citizens' Convention for a Post-Carbon Ireland
    Create a Citizens' Convention for a Post-Carbon Ireland: that is, a sustained, citizen-led, national discourse on the challenges that climate change poses to our society, and how we can and will respond.
    1,110 of 2,000 Signatures
    Created by Barry McMullin
  • End gender segregation in Irish schools
    Dear Minister Foley, The time for gender segregation in schools has now passed. We are calling on you to end gender segregation in Irish schools and to allow all children and teenagers to be educated free from any perceived constraints of their gender. Many citizens of Ireland believe that it is no longer appropriate to educate children in separate boys' and girls' schools. Young people should be forming friendships with their peers across genders, so that an understanding can be formed while they are young that there is no difference in their intellect, ambitions, or interests. If we continue to educate boys and girls separately, we are causing grave damage to how they relate to each other socially. We may be inadvertently causing young men to regard women as inferior to them and perpetuating a gender divide that is causing so much damage in Irish society. A 2011 study called The Pseudoscience of Single-Sex Schooling states, "There is no well-designed research showing that single-sex education improves students' academic performance, but there is evidence that sex segregation increases gender stereotyping and legitimizes institutional sexism." Particularly in light of the continuing rise of gender-based violence, we ask that you form a plan to amalgamate boys' and girls' schools nationwide to effectively demonstrate that all Irish children deserve to be educated and to grow up as equals in society.
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    Created by Louise G
  • Stop suspended /short sentences for sex offenders & call for the resignation of Judge Gerald Keys
    Tánaiste, in light of the recent suspended sentence handed down by Judge Gerald Keys to a 77-year old man who abused his nieces as children, we demand that you call for the resignation of the judge and the revision of the sentence handed down to the man. We demand that our government and courts treat sexual assault with the seriousness that it deserves.
    2,595 of 3,000 Signatures
    Created by Emma O'Leary
  • Allow off-grid, low impact housing in Ireland
    We are asking our government to support rural regeneration by introducing a scheme that allows people to live sustainably by building low-impact homes in the countryside. The One Planet Development scheme in Wales is a good model to base this on. At the moment in Ireland people are not permitted to build homes on agricultural land, but now we ask that the government permits planning for low-impact homes to the many people who are waking up to the climate crisis and feel compelled to work with nature rather than against it. There is a drive to plant trees, to regenerate the soil and promote biodiversity, to grow healthy organic food, to treat animals with respect and to create significantly less waste. The Dept of Communications, Climate Action and Environment and local planning offices need to recognise this as a valid and valuable form of rural development that needs specific planning guidelines and government support. What we are asking for is not difficult; it's just different, and requires our leaders to show pioneering spirit and to think outside the box.
    4,490 of 5,000 Signatures
    Created by Róisín Dexter
  • Report the Climate and Biodiversity Crisis
    Dear RTE, As our national broadcaster we urge you to give the Climate and Biodiversity Crisis the coverage this important issue needs and that the public deserves. Over the past number of months we have all observed the daily coverage on the Covid19 pandemic which has been critical to saving lives. Even more critical due to the enormous magnitude of the impact and risk to millions of lives is the climate and biodiversity crisis. On 21 May 2020 Friends of the Earth published survey results that demonstrated 90% of the public believed the Government should be guided by the science on climate change as they had been on Covid19 so the Irish public clearly trust science and the experts. Every day we receive the weather forecast. Could this be expanded to "Weather Forecast and Climate & Biodiversity Update"? It is really important that the public know the truth of the situation and as our national broadcaster you have a responsibility to report the stark realities. While sharing information on the realities of the climate and biodiversity crisis would be wise, it does not need to be all doom and gloom. • It could be useful to share tips on what countries are doing around the world. e.g. China are developing solar panels that produce electricity when it rains. • It could also be an excellent opportunity to share some positive things that are happening around the country and their impact. There are some amazing biodiversity projects taking place in Ireland. • Another idea would be a "daily tip" for people to do something in their daily lives which has a positive impact. I am sure many viewers would tune in daily for this. • Also season markers such as the first swallow sighting of the year could be really interesting to a broad range of viewers. Irish people love to talk about the weather and items like this could add a whole new dimension to the subject. There is a huge amount of scope here for content and RTE would definitely expand its viewer base. It is very clear from the recent survey from Friends of the Earth there absolutely is a public demand for these news stories and huge potential here for RTE. Many people argue against climate action because they simply do not understand the gravity of the situation and the public urgently need to be educated. Until now the media have not given this issue the coverage it deserves but RTE have an opportunity to change this. We understand there has been some coverage by RTE on this, e.g. the week on climate change in November 2019. However the updates have been too sporadic and irregular to have an impact. The consistency of daily updates that we have seen during the Covid19 pandemic is what the public really want from the experts. RTE could be a world leader here. Maybe other countries could follow the lead and adopt their weather forecasts too to incorporate climate and biodiversity information. While it's an extremely serious topic it is an exciting opportunity for RTE to do something different to attract many more viewers.
    498 of 500 Signatures
    Created by Suzanne Murphy
  • STOP UNSOLICITED PREMIUM TEXT SERVICES SCAM
    We want ComReg to acknowledge that mobile phone customers are being subscribed to premium rate SMS services without their consent or knowledge and are being charged on their phone bills for services they did not receive.
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    Created by Rona Collins
  • Free period products in NI schools #MenstruationMatters
    We are calling on Minister Peter Weir from the Department of Education to bring NI in line with the rest of the UK and finally provide free period products in all school toilets, to alleviate the issue of period poverty and to meet the menstrual needs of all school girls.
    5,334 of 6,000 Signatures
    Created by The Homeless Period
  • No to More Slash and Burn!
    We ask you to reconsider your proposal to change the Wildlife Act to allow for the burning of vegetation in March and the cutting of hedgerows in August and establish proper hedgerow and upland management regimes that works for farming, road safety and wildlife.
    34,220 of 35,000 Signatures
    Created by Irish Wildlife Trust, Birdwatch Ireland, An Taisce and Hedge Laying Association of Ireland
  • No More Sitka Spruce Plantations
    Change the policy of Sitka Spruce Plantations. Plant broadleaf native species instead
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    Created by Aprile Blake
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