Time for a zero refugee policy? - *Read OP for mod warnings and threadbans - updated 11/5/24*

Irish_rat

The open border to the UK will cause massive problems I think.

2Greyfoxes

One side tell us that Mass Migration is good for the economy, helps prop up the health care system, etc.

The other side tell us that the influx is putting too much strain on an already struggling system, etc.

Meanwhile, we hear stories like this emerge. Like most things in life the truth will be somewhere in the middle. Funding is a very real issue, yes... but so is a rapid influx in population.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg3wgjkedzo

bloopy

I wonder how many similar situations to this are happening around the country.

HSE hiring from abroad, while imposing a hiring freeze over here.

We are screwing our own to save a penny, then using bigotry and racism as a cover when anyone questions it.

https://www.thejournal.ie/international-recruitment-for-hse-jobs-6462236-Aug2024/

Thorny Queen

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122515834#Comment_122515834

My Father worked in Healthcare in Ireland for 40 years and really resents the narrative that our Healthcare system would collapse if we didn't have foreign healthcare workers. As does his retired colleagues who committed their entire lives to working diligently in healthcare here.

It was never on the brink of collapse until our population exploded and this crisis in recruitment is very much engineered to take in workers on crap contracts who don't get proper pensions, paid holiday leave or sick leave.

When I had my last child, I was truly horrified at the standard of care and how much it had dropped compared to having my first child. I am not talking about every staff member but in general, it was shocking.

I would be petrified to grow old and have health issues in this country.

facehugger99

The Irish electorate have, over the last couple of decades pushed to the left.

We're now in a situation where FF/FG are left of center, the main opposition parties are far left and the one right of center party we had (PDs) were obliterated.

The electorate has consistently rewarded big government, big social welfare, big spending and consistently punished fiscal prudence.

The situation we find ourselves in now is just a case of chickens coming home to roost.

We wonder how we ended up in this situation - because it's what we choose.

A lot of people are starting to wake up now with a bad case of buyers remorse but it's a little late.

There's no credible opposition to the current path. Anyone who thinks things won't get even worse with SF in government is quite frankly, a moron

We are stuck on this path for the foreseeable and things are going to get a hell of a lot worse in my view.

Ozvaldo

I mean like seriously you come to Dublin with a tent and you get put up in a 5 star hotel and given social welfare with no background checks -are these lads been treated better than our own? and if you think yes the question is why do our own government resent us ?

creeper1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122515762#Comment_122515762

I agree the vast majority of them of them are good but let's not put any group of people on a pedestal.

They have their bad apples like any other.

https://m.sundayworld.com/crime/courts/filipino-man-jailed-last-week-for-donegal-rape-previously-involved-in-vicious-gang-attack/a1076506777.html

Ozvaldo

No one thinks Sinn Fein are the answer they are finished they had their chance and deliberately dropped the ball as they dont want to be in government they just want to make noise.

creeper1

Tuam in county Galway is next to receive IPAs.

It's been confirmed.

Same pattern. Put in Ukrainians at the start. Move Ukrainians on.

Stick in IPAs.

https://www.tuamherald.ie/2024/08/15/tuam-hotel-to-home-100-asylum-seekers/