If you were given a trillion euro's tommorrow to reform the economy (Lets say for arguments sake the increased spending doesn't cause increased inflation) what would you do?

I would try and make Ireland Carbon neutral by 2010. With that kind of Capital investment you could put a windfarm in every field in Ireland.

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You'd have to make it population neutral too.

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A windfarm in every field, eh?
Thats good stuff, right enough.
I also suggest we knock every nightclub, and replace them with turbines.

Hmmmm...

Sea-based windfarms across Europe, with huge interconnectors, eh?

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I'm speaking figureatively. I thought people on this board didn't think literally (If anything your all quite sarcastic)

The investment in wind technology is a tiny fraction of the investment in Nuclear, the policies in relation to this have been a disgrace. Then there is Solar, wave, Hydraulic - the list goes on. There is also a technology called 'Concentrated Solar Power' which would rely on draining the sun power of the Sahara and Arabia and relying on a huge electricity grid covering Europe. All these things could be seriously looked at.

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I think your point is quite valid. To me it seems the two biggest threats to your economy (and by extension the way we live) are the over reliance on the construction sector, and dependence on (imported) fossil fuels. Though the temporary effect of building the renewable energy sector infrastructure would add to the huge construction sector (of course this would be a more reliable form of production) the net effect would result in I would imagine massive potential for jobs in a stable renewable energy sector (across a wide range of techonologies, from wind, tidal, solar, incineration, biofuels, biodegradation etc) and reducing dependence on foreign and non renewable fuels would reduce future volatility in the markets with rising and unstable energy prices and of course supply.

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Energy, education and communications. I`d also subsidise parents so that they spend more time with their families and try and develop the regions more.

Unless I'm mistaken, the ESB still do not allow anyone to feed electricity back into the grid ( make your meter go backwards). It is one of the few organisations that make energy saving prohibitive, as everyone would have to have the means not to oversupply their property. I've seen the set-up and it is ridiculous, besides wasting money.

Id go with major overhaul of the education system. teacher pay rises coupled with an extension of the school year to 10 and a half months of the year and a overhaul of the leaving to make it more focused on what a person will later study and also make the driving test a school subject

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for some great advice.

Drink it all.. party, party, party.. and when its all gone .. let FG and Labour win an election.. and blame then for everything

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