A total of 5,284 ideas were logged on the Ideas Campaign’s website between the campaign launch on 5 March and 31 March, the deadline for this phase of the campaign. One of the ideas in particular was covered on yesterday’s Six One News on RTÉ 1.
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Ideas are featured on Six One News
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009Ideas Campaign on the Late Late Show
Saturday, March 28th, 2009
Late Late Show presenter Pat Kenny
The Ideas Campaign was featured on 27 March on The Late Late Show, Ireland’s most watched TV programme with an audience that reaches 90% of the Irish adult population.
Three citizens were interviewed in the audience about the ideas they had submitted to the campaign website. Fionnbar Walsh from Kerry spoke about his idea of replacing prefab buildings in new schools with new buildings which would be funded by local communities. He said that this would result in savings for the Exchequer.
Fionnbar Walsh
Many of the schools in the country which have been awaiting government funding for either their construction or renovation, have outline or defined planning permission and are currently using temporary rented facilities to tide them over until the government will approve construction. We need the communities where these projects are currently “approved” to invest in them. If 100 persons invest in the project with about €10,000 with a 1% share there is €1 million available for the project immediately. As a school in a local area with 100 investors offering the government the use of the facility, constructed, at a 7% cost to the government per annum, it will work out as cheap as or cheaper than the current rental cost for the temporary facilities currently in use. This project will also get some of the construction sector back in action and gain much needed revenue back into the economy.
- Fionnbar Walsh
Tess Kane said that she, and many other older citizens like her, who have lived through previous recessions would be prepared to give home-making skills classes to younger people.
Tess Kane
There are thousands of grannies and an older generation who have lived through recessions and hard times and survived. My idea is to get them together in their local communities and teach the younger wives, mothers and partners. This can be done on a voluntary basis and the benefits would be enormous to everyone:
1 How to serve up fantastic nutritional meals - all home made
2 Using leftovers: cooked potatoes - meat - vegetables, etc.
3 Local produce… growing it yourself
4 Home baking… i.e. when had you potato cake last?
- Tess Kane
Una Heaton from Limerick spoke of creating a new arts business to enable local artists to promote and sell their works.
Una Heaton
Our idea is that eight artists, sculptors, photographers and painters will form a group and set up their own art gallery and art school. Each artist in the group takes 100% on their work. Invited artists will pay 20% on each sale to the gallery, the gallery will be part-time staffed, with the group taking alternative weeks. Also within the building will be a tourist attraction, the Angela’s Ashes tour. The building used to be the Leamy School in Limerick where Frank McCourt went to school… I think this is a great opportunity for artists to display their work in a great environment. Art will always sell.
- Una Heaton
Aileen O'Toole
Campaign Director Aileen O’Toole was interviewed in studio about the citizens’ campaign and said that the response had been unbelievable, with “hundreds and now thousands of ideas” for economic renewal and recovery being posted to the campaign website.
She encouraged others to log their ideas on the site before next Tuesday, 31 March, the deadline for the submission of ideas.
The Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Eamon Ryan TD
Eamon Ryan TD, Minister for Energy Communications and Natural Resources, another guest on the show, praised the campaign as a medium to promote positive ideas for economic recovery.
Ideas Campaign on ‘Morning Ireland’
Friday, March 6th, 2009The Ideas Campaign was featured on this morning’s edition of RTÉ Radio 1’s flagship news programme “Morning Ireland”. Campaign director Aileen O’Toole talked about the campaign and the huge response since last night’s launch.
Listen to the interview on RTÉ’s website
Campaign launched to harness ideas for economic growth
Thursday, March 5th, 2009Press release
A national campaign was launched tonight on RTÉ’s Prime Time to seek people’s ideas to stimulate economic recovery and focus on solutions to Ireland’s serious economic problems.
Called The Ideas Campaign, this grassroots initiative is targeting the citizens of Ireland and asking them to propose innovative ideas to boost economic activity across key areas such as manufacturing, technology, construction, retail and education. But it’s not only about business - the Ideas Campaign also wants ideas for the arts, sport and voluntary and community activity that will enrich this country.
The campaign will run until 31 March and centres on a website - IdeasCampaign.ie - which went live today and which will:
- Capture citizens’ ideas across 19 different categories that are important to the Irish economy
- Allow them to send messages of support
- Provide easy-to-understand information about the Irish economy that is directly applicable to their lives
This is a citizens’ campaign, owned by people in Ireland. The campaign, and those who get involved, have to be practical and realistic, particularly in the light of the global economic crisis and the serious state of the government’s finances.
The Ideas Campaign plans to use the ideas received to deliver an action plan for Government in April with aggressive timelines for execution. An Advisory Group, comprising senior figures with experience in business, academia, economics and the public sector, is advising the campaign team and will have an input into the action plan to ensure that recommendations are both pragmatic and achievable.
The campaign arose from a contribution which businesswoman Aileen O’Toole made to the Prime Time special on the economy on 14 January. She spoke about positive aspects of Irish economic activity and the need to focus on solutions, not problems. This TV appearance met with a huge response which led Aileen O’Toole to establish this campaign less than three weeks ago.
The campaign is independent, non-political and has been modestly funded by Aileen O’Toole’s business, AMAS. It is being staffed by highly-qualified individuals who have been made redundant because of the recession and who are being supported by a network of volunteers, as well as AMAS’s Directors and staff.
“After Prime Time, people contacted me and agreed that we need to have different conversations about the Irish economy - about looking forward, about recognising positive developments in the economy and about capitalising on our qualities as an economy,” said Aileen O’Toole, explaining the genesis of the campaign. “At the very least, we’re hoping that this campaign will start those conversations.
“We’re calling on the people of Ireland to get involved. Visit the campaign website IdeasCampaign.ie, which will be updated every day. Log your ideas on the site. But even if you don’t have a big idea, don’t worry. You can still send us a message of support or read the content about the contributors or about the ideas and messages that are coming in from around the country.”
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