Personal IE domains?

Would people be interested in registering personal IE domains if there was a special subdomain for it eg. name.ie or ainm.ie (or some other semantically logical derivative) ?
We get requests for IE domains every single day. In most cases they are from either registered businesses or similar, but we are seeing an increasing demand for personal domains. Unfortunately the IEDR‘s naming policies do not allow you to register something like micheleneylon.ie unless your business or activity is known by that name. So, for example, a published author can register their name, as can a politician or other public figure, however a private citizen cannot.
This does lead to issues, as people look at other cctlds, such as co.uk and see that they can register whatever they want, whereas with .ie not only are they more restricted by the naming schema, and are reduced to registering mjn1.ie or similar if they don’t register a business name with the CRO
I can understand the IEDR’s current rules in most instances, however maybe it is time that they introduced a new “section”. Other countries have designated part of the namespace for specific areas, so .ac.uk is reserved for academic institutions and various other “areas” exist within other national registries. To date the Irish namespace has been flat. There is no differenciation between private businesses, government departments, education or personal space.
Would a change be of benefit or would it merely cause more problems that it solved?
The IEDR is not the organisation it used to be.
Earlier this year they reported profits, while they also made a move towards creating some form of “after market” in “secondhand” domains.
From a technical perspective there have been some significant changes, although most of them would not be visible to the end user but would be of great interest to companies such as ourselves that register domains on behalf of our clients.
Of course one of the obvious arguments against a move like this would be the current size of the cctld. I stress current, as a move like this could help to grow it significantly. However, for that to happen, these domains could not be priced at the existing level, which varies from €40 to over €100, depending on the reseller. If an individual could get their own domain for a price similar to that of a .com it would surely be attractive, however the IEDR may be able to argue against that pricing also.
On what grounds you may ask?
Well the IEDR is not like .com. It is not a fully automated system. Each and every registration and modification request has to be manually reviewed by the IEDR staff, who work from Monday to Friday. If you want to make a simple DNS change on a Friday evening, for example, you will have to wait until the following Monday morning before it can be enacted.
What can be done to address this situation?
The obvious answer would be to introduce a greater level of automation. If, for example, a system similar to Nominet’s automaton was put in place then requests could be processed almost automatically. Needless to say there would have to be some level of verification, but surely a DNS change does not require a hostmaster’s intervention? Surely the onus lies on the reseller or their client to know if they have setup their DNS correctly or not, as it will not be processed until it passes the DNS check in either case.