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The Land Development Agency should be given greater powers and a larger capital allocation to directly deliver social and affordable housing at scale.

Remote working rights should be enshrined in legislation to reduce geographic concentration of employment in Dublin.

Planning permission for high-density housing near public transport should be substantially streamlined.

The minimum wage in Ireland should rise to a rate that covers rent and basic living costs in all major cities.

Ireland must begin reducing its reliance on corporate tax revenues by broadening the tax base before the next economic shock.

Short-term rental platforms should be heavily restricted in areas with acute housing shortages.

The state should directly build social and affordable housing at substantial scale rather than primarily relying on the private market.

Ireland should use its position as European headquarters for major tech companies to actively shape global AI governance from within.

Tech companies' low effective tax rates in Ireland benefit the exchequer in the short term but are unfair to other EU member states.

Irish universities should invest substantially more in AI and computer science to build indigenous domestic tech capacity.

Ireland benefits substantially from tech FDI and should actively compete to retain these companies while meeting regulatory obligations.

New data centres in Ireland should not be approved while the national electricity grid faces capacity constraints.

The Data Protection Commission needs significantly more resources to enforce GDPR effectively against major tech platforms.

Ireland relies too heavily on a small number of US tech multinationals and needs to actively diversify its economic base.

Ireland should set a binding domestic target to reduce transport emissions by 50% by 2030, backed by investment in rural public transport.

Ireland should invest in offshore wind at the scale needed to become a net exporter of clean electricity to Europe.

Community benefit funds from wind farms should flow directly to affected residents, not only to local authorities.

Ireland's per-capita emissions are among the highest in the EU and this requires urgent policy change across agriculture, transport, and buildings.

Planning for large-scale onshore and offshore wind and solar farms should be fast-tracked given Ireland's renewable energy potential.

Peat bog restoration should be prioritised over continued agricultural use even where this displaces farmers from traditional land use.