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Apprenticeships and further education courses should be funded and socially respected at the same level as academic degrees.

Teacher pay in Ireland is too low relative to other graduate professions and must rise to attract and retain talent.

The CAO points race places harmful levels of pressure on teenagers and should be fundamentally reformed.

Ireland should adopt an active anti-racism strategy with funded enforcement mechanisms and measurable targets.

Anti-immigration rhetoric in Irish political discourse poses a serious risk to social cohesion.

Ireland should make it substantially easier for the Irish diaspora to return and contribute to the economy.

Homelessness in Ireland is a political and policy failure, not an inevitable outcome of market conditions.

The Irish state has a duty to formally acknowledge and pay reparations to survivors of institutional abuse.

Ireland's economic success depends substantially on continued immigration and the state should make this case publicly.

Direct provision for asylum seekers should be replaced with community-based housing and support — the International Protection Act 2024 begins this transition.

The number of TDs in Dáil Éireann should be increased to improve parliamentary scrutiny as the population and legislative workload grow.

Ireland should consider moving to a unicameral parliament by abolishing or fundamentally reforming the Seanad.

Lowering the voting age to 16 in all elections would strengthen democratic participation.

Voting in Dáil elections should be extended to Irish citizens resident abroad.

Political donations from corporations and property developers should be banned entirely.

Dáil sitting hours should be extended and reformed so TDs spend more time scrutinising legislation.

Ireland's Citizens' Assemblies have been a genuine democratic innovation and should be used more frequently for complex policy questions.

Ireland should formally and publicly support Palestinian statehood at the UN and use its Security Council membership to advance that position.

Ireland should substantially expand its UN peacekeeping contributions as an expression of its foreign policy values.

EU mutual defence commitments under Article 42.7 already effectively qualify Irish neutrality in practice.