- Commitment to €80/tonne carbon tax by 2030
- Commitment to National Broadband Plan (something of a FF concession)
- Multiple references to housing construction, especially with reference to young people and rural areas
- It says it will borrow if necessary to stimulate domestic demand, grow employment, respond to social need, improve health, transport, education and housing (the previous attitude of borrowing-is-bad gone out the window?) but also wants to reduce deficit
- All new consultant contracts in public health service to be public only
- Invest in public health so as to manage ability to cope with future threats such as other pandemics
- Prioritise home ownership and affordable purchase schemes
- Reduce cost of land, employing all measures including referenda (?)
- Cost-rental to be developed
- A “new deal for renters” with focus in long-term security, stable and affordable rents, and “greater choice”
- Pension auto-enrolment
- “Reform and modernise” childcare
- Increased parental leave
- “Strong and safe communities”
Otherwise woolly malleable language on gender equality, disabilities and carers
- No specific carbon reduction targets, but with a “clear road map for delivery”
- a Citizens Assembly on the biodiversity crisis
- become a European leader in offshore wind
- “significantly increasing the number of daily journeys being taken by foot and bicycle”
- Public sector employers, colleges and other bodies mandated to move to 20% remote working by 2021 (only next year!) and private sector employers to be encouraged to do the same
- Balanced regional development
- Bring vacant properties back into use
- Specific clause on helping cultural bodies, sports, community groups, charities etc to overcome covid19
- “Prioritise the upkeep and expansion of parks and green spaces for community enjoyment”
- Woolly non-committal stuff on arts and the Irish language
- Affordable housing and realistic aspiration to ownership
- Some sort of mechanism to make young people be part of “decision making at community, county and national levels” (age quotas?)
- Give every child chance to learn Irish and history
- Combat online abuse
- Increased apprenticeships and traineeships
- Increased “parental choice” on patronage options