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Govt to replace Direct Provision with protection system

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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    KeithTS wrote: »
    This sounds great for everyone, I wonder why nobody thought about it?
    Have you tried to verify/get documentation for a person who genuinely lost it all when their city was bombed and genuinely had to trek across a continent with their family?

    I'm unable to renew my passport in 7 days when I'm in full possession of all of my details, the office renewing it are the very same one that issued it less then 10 years previously and are based 10km away from me and there isn't a war going on in the nation....

    You're seriously deluded if you think the people arriving into the airport are coming from areas that were bombed.

    For starters they've, in 99% of cases, boarded a commercial flight from Europe so they had;

    1. Money to book
    2. The passport to board

    They get rid of their passport before they present in Dublin as it's one of the things you need to do to apply.

    99% of our asylum seekers are bogus as they have passed through one or many more safe countries to arrive on our shores.
    This alone is supposed to be grounds for rejection yet we're just letting them all stay multiple years despite that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    For the powers that be, its easier to do this than to work to create a society that actually values working people.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,128 ✭✭✭Tacitus Kilgore


    TomTomTim wrote: »
    After today, DP looks like a far better option, as bad as it was. This new policy simply makes everything worse as it's even more ripe for abuse. Imagine coming to Ireland, knowing you won't qualify for asylum, and knowing that a system exists that will allow to to have free housing for months/years. It would take all the naivety in the world to conclude that there won't be more abuse of the system as a product of that.

    ....

    I am not going go to do deep in to it, but you are arguing that the govt. should continue to pay hoteliers & owners of mobile homes and car parks massive sums of money to house asylum seekers for year and years, instead of housing them in state owned property - at presumably a reduced cost, and increased standard of accomodation.

    the speed of the applications & appeals process is a different kettle of fish really


  • Registered Users Posts: 544 ✭✭✭agoodpunt


    once they enter the country they wont leave unless they use it as a gateway to the UK or Europe but giving them a house and equal rights to social welfare they will skip with benefits even back to there home why are we making it easier an attractive because of a strong and organised lobby group created on the back of tax payer we have a virtual open border policy


  • Registered Users Posts: 601 ✭✭✭RandRuns


    KeithTS wrote: »
    This sounds great for everyone, I wonder why nobody thought about it?
    Have you tried to verify/get documentation for a person who genuinely lost it all when their city was bombed and genuinely had to trek across a continent with their family?

    I'm unable to renew my passport in 7 days when I'm in full possession of all of my details, the office renewing it are the very same one that issued it less then 10 years previously and are based 10km away from me and there isn't a war going on in the nation....


    How do asylum seekers landing in Dublin airport get on a plane without any documentation?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 315 ✭✭Akesh


    Social or affordable? Or free? Or on market?

    Which is it you want, because most on this thread don't want the govt to provide ANY housing

    Pathetic attempt at a strawman argument. Why are we bringing people in when there is a massive lack of supply on the market? Why don't you answer that.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,128 ✭✭✭Tacitus Kilgore


    Akesh wrote: »
    Pathetic attempt at a strawman argument. Why are we bringing people in when there is a massive lack of supply on the market? Why don't you answer that.

    No better than a straw man to fight a strawman.

    They're coming in anyway, this is about change to how they're housed...


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    RandRuns wrote: »
    How do asylum seekers landing in Dublin airport get on a plane without any documentation?

    The documentation is often destroyed once on the plane and before you disembark on the Irish side


  • Registered Users Posts: 514 ✭✭✭Mules


    i cant see there being much support for keeping DP as it stands. do you?
    ....

    I am not going go to do deep in to it, but you are arguing that the govt. should continue to pay hoteliers & owners of mobile homes and car parks massive sums of money to house asylum seekers for year and years, instead of housing them in state owned property - at presumably a reduced cost, and increased standard of accomodation.

    the speed of the applications & appeals process is a different kettle of fish really

    The department of housing has said housing them will be 2x as expensive as direct provision. That's accomodation alone, it doesn't even include social welfare and other benefits.


  • Registered Users Posts: 601 ✭✭✭RandRuns


    No better than a straw man to fight a strawman.

    They're coming in anyway, this is about change to how they're housed...

    Can you respond to my earlier post where I showed you why we can't build all these houses and still build social housing?
    You were very adamant that we could until you were given the facts, it seems rude to run away.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,476 ✭✭✭MFPM


    Akesh wrote: »
    Pathetic attempt at a strawman argument. Why are we bringing people in when there is a massive lack of supply on the market? Why don't you answer that.

    So if the housing issue is solved you're not opposed in principle to people arriving in Ireland?

    Of course the pressure on housing has nothing to do with asylum seekers but one suspects you know that!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 601 ✭✭✭RandRuns


    The documentation is often destroyed once on the plane and before you disembark on the Irish side

    I know, but some posters want to pretend these bogus asylum seekers are coming straight off a battle field, when the reality is very different.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 838 ✭✭✭qm1bv4p8i92aoj


    The National Party will always be no more than a rinky-dink gathering of screwballs.


    Boards could establish a party in the morn and it'd be immediately more meaningful than that lot.

    I'm no fan of the national party but this is the exact type of sneering attitude that got the likes of Trump into power and sees the rise of far right parties across Europe. You and your kind would do well to remember that.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,476 ✭✭✭MFPM


    TomTomTim wrote: »
    After today, DP looks like a far better option, as bad as it was. This new policy simply makes everything worse as it's even more ripe for abuse. Imagine coming to Ireland, knowing you won't qualify for asylum, and knowing that a system exists that will allow to to have free housing for months/years. It would take all the naivety in the world to conclude that there won't be more abuse of the system as a product of that.

    A 'far better option' FFS have you seen these sh!t holes? The institutionalisation of PEOPLE has to stop.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    RandRuns wrote: »
    I know, but some posters want to pretend these bogus asylum seekers are coming straight off a battle field, when the reality is very different.

    Hehe, thought u weren't sure :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,476 ✭✭✭MFPM


    agoodpunt wrote: »
    once they enter the country they wont leave unless they use it as a gateway to the UK or Europe but giving them a house and equal rights to social welfare they will skip with benefits even back to there home why are we making it easier an attractive because of a strong and organised lobby group created on the back of tax payer we have a virtual open border policy

    They, They, They....


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,904 ✭✭✭mgn


    Why don't the build a place beside the airport with accommodation, straight off the plane, interviewed and do the all the checks while the are in the building, 7 day turnaround max, either grant asylum or back on the plane, simple.

    But that wont happen because of all the vested interests.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 838 ✭✭✭qm1bv4p8i92aoj


    Are "Democratic" countries really democratic anymore when their governments are radically opposed to the views of the majority of their people? Across the water Brexit was voted in by the public mainly because of failed immigration policies yet today Ireland has opened their borders to the third world and more. A free house after 4 months for these people while the country is currently gripped by a housing crisis for the last number of years. When the EU fails it will fail because of policies like this that they forced onto member states. No wonder right wing parties are on the rise across the continent.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,841 ✭✭✭TomTomTim


    MFPM wrote: »
    A 'far better option' FFS have you seen these sh!t holes? The institutionalisation of PEOPLE has to stop.

    I'm sure you're going to give us a comprehensive analysis of what makes DP centers sh!t holes. I personally have seen no evidence of this, and have seen numerous claims about conditions with little supporting evidence. Even recently there was the case of Ashbourne House, where they were supposedly on hunger strike over terrible food quality. Yet the food was bog standard deli quality food, that you get in every shop throughout the country. There was a similar protest in Kerry, once again with little evidence of their claims.

    “The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.”- ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov




  • Registered Users Posts: 514 ✭✭✭Mules


    A big help would be not to allow appeals. They really slow up the system. The people who make the decision on whether to grant asylum should be trusted to be competent enough to make a correct decision. I haven't heard of an appeals process in other countries.


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  • Posts: 2,827 [Deleted User]


    Are "Democratic" countries really democratic anymore when their governments are radically opposed to the views of the majority of their people? Across the water Brexit was voted in by the public mainly because of failed immigration policies yet today Ireland has opened their borders to the third world and more. A free house after 4 months for these people while the country is currently gripped by a housing crisis for the last number of years. When the EU fails it will fail because of policies like this that they forced onto member states. No wonder right wing parties are on the rise across the continent.
    Germany is. 5 years ago the CDU/CSU were scratching their heads wondering why the public were getting worked up about the open borders brain-fart but they're a bit more sensible now that they have seen the AFD rising above 20% in Eastern Germany and the birth right of the CDU/CSU to be in Government without pause no longer the certainty it once was. They're still not completely reconciled with the fact that the electorate don't like open borders but they know it has consequences for their political careers.


  • Registered Users Posts: 514 ✭✭✭Mules


    Germany is. 5 years ago the CDU/CSU were scratching their heads wondering why the public were getting worked up about the open borders brain-fart but they're a bit more sensible now that they have seen the AFD rising above 20% in Eastern Germany and the birth right of the CDU/CSU to be in Government without pause no longer the certainty it once was. They're still not completely reconciled with the fact that the electorate don't like open borders but they know it has consequences for their political careers.

    Its bizarre that politicians can't understand why people are upset by open borders. They mustn't use any public services because that's the only way they wouldn't be affected by it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 601 ✭✭✭RandRuns


    Mules wrote: »
    Its bizarre that politicians can't understand why people are upset by open borders. They mustn't use any public services because that's the only way they wouldn't be affected by it.

    There's a lot of money in pretending not to understand it. If politicians were getting backhanders to stop open borders, it would be stopped in the morning.


  • Registered Users Posts: 514 ✭✭✭Mules


    RandRuns wrote: »
    There's a lot of money in pretending not to understand it. If politicians were getting backhanders to stop open borders, it would be stopped in the morning.

    I think you must be right. I can't think of any other explanation.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Ok, I'm out of here for a while, the sun is shining outside :) My last thoughts, this is happening and will be implemented, the numbers will increase massively, the politicians don't care, they are receiving very little blow back on the door steps, therefore they can ignore it.

    If you're concerned about it write to your local representatives and next time they canvas tell them you are opposed to what they are doing. I've said it before they will ignore you but at least you'll have let them know your stance on it. I've told a few recently over the last few years not to call to my home again because of this issue. Again they don't care, infact you can see they don't want to be even questioned on it but anyway don't vote for them, don't interact with them on any issues., hopefully one day some proper representatives will step forward with reasonable policies


  • Registered Users Posts: 562 ✭✭✭Kingkong


    I hate the way the socialist agenda is gaining so much traction as the main parties try to appeal to the Sein Fein voter base.
    We are yet again paying for other countries' problems, we are so so soft here, France and Italy take a much harder stance for good reasons, they know aslyums seeking will always go the easiest route.

    The main parties are alienating their own voters, do they even remember what they stand for?
    I want to work, pay less tax and leave something for my children.
    I don't want the country buried with debt and my kids in a worse mess that my parent's generation left us in.

    We are broke as a country and borrowing like mad its all going to come crashing down.


  • Registered Users Posts: 181 ✭✭Sarcozies


    I can't believe the disgusting responses from a lot of posters here just naming the problems associated with this plan such as growing division, legal costs, resentment from a generation who grew up during the biggest economic collapse in nearly a century who now are going through another, combined with a pandemic where the best chance of having their own little space would be to get sent to prison.

    What about the food? Have ye all forgot about the great assortment of exotic lunches we will be able to enjoy in the years to come? Always look on.....


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,904 ✭✭✭mgn


    RandRuns wrote: »
    There's a lot of money in pretending not to understand it. If politicians were getting backhanders to stop open borders, it would be stopped in the morning.

    Or a nice handy number in Europe to top up their already inflated pensions.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,128 ✭✭✭Tacitus Kilgore


    Kingkong wrote: »
    I hate the way the liberal agenda is gaining so much traction as the main parties try to appeal to the Sein Feinn voter base.
    We are yet again paying for other countries' problems, we are so so soft here, France and Italy take a much harder stance for good reasons, they know aslyums seeking will always go the easiest route.

    They are alienating their own voters. I want to work, pay less tax and leave something for my children. I don't want the country buried with debt and my kids in a worse mess than my parent's generation left us. We are broke as a country and borrowing like mad its all going to come crashing down


    that's not liberalism, liberalism wants low govt intervention, low taxes & free market capitalism. Thats not what SF are about (I don't know what they're about tbh but they argue for a 32 county SOCIALIST republic)

    You don't even know what you're giving out about - probably just read it on infowars or some other american soapbox.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,985 ✭✭✭mikeym


    Build big tower blocks and put them in them.

    Problem solved.

    Will the Asylum process be overhauled aswell?


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