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Ireland must reduce cattle and dairy herd sizes significantly to meet its legally binding sectoral emission targets under the Climate Action Plan.

Access to reliable internet and digital devices should be recognised as a prerequisite for meaningful participation in education and civic life.

Teacher quality is the single most important within-school determinant of pupil outcomes, and teacher pay should reflect this.

Private schools that select by academic ability or religious faith perpetuate socioeconomic advantage and should not receive public subsidy.

Digital and critical information literacy should be mandatory core curriculum requirements from primary school alongside reading and numeracy.

Vocational and technical education routes are systematically underfunded relative to academic routes in most high-income countries.

High-stakes standardised testing narrows curricula and disadvantages students from lower-income backgrounds without improving average learning outcomes.

University tuition fees reduce access for students from lower-income households and should be replaced with public funding through progressive taxation.

Statelessness — where individuals hold no nationality — represents a critical human rights gap that requires a strengthened international legal remedy.

Governments have a duty to actively enforce prohibitions on racial and ethnic discrimination in employment and housing, not merely legislate them.

Reducing income inequality through redistribution is more effective at building social trust and cohesion than restricting immigration.

Hate speech laws targeting incitement to violence are compatible with free expression and necessary to protect vulnerable communities.

Cultural and ethnic diversity in high-immigration societies produces long-term economic benefits that justify active and well-resourced immigration policy.

States that signed the 1951 Refugee Convention have binding legal obligations to asylum seekers that domestic political pressure cannot override.

High-income countries should substantially expand legal migration pathways — the fiscal and economic evidence for doing so is strong.

Ranked-choice preferential voting would produce more representative outcomes than first-past-the-post without requiring full proportional representation.

The scale of corporate and industry lobbying distorts democratic representation far beyond what ordinary citizens can counterbalance.

Compulsory voting would substantially increase political equality by eliminating the systematic under-representation of lower-income and younger voters.

Term limits for heads of government meaningfully reduce the risk of democratic backsliding and authoritarian consolidation.

Social media platforms that algorithmically amplify demonstrably false election information should bear legal liability for resulting democratic harms.