Who's picking up the bill for all the burned out asylum seekers accommodation?

MegamanBoo

I really don't want this to be another thread about the rights or wrongs of migration or IPAs per se. If you have opinions on those please take them to the other conversations.

I'm actually very curious to know who's actually paying for all the burned out property either designated for housing asylum seekers, or rumored to be, over the last few years. I'd guess the cost must be pretty huge at this point.

My own guesstimate as to what would happen is that the first couple of arson attacks were covered under general commercial insurance with the cost picked up eventually by other policy holders.

After that what happens? Are insurers quoting for or covering property like this anymore? I'd think hardly. I'd guess the state must be providing guarantees when it signs contracts. But what happens to ordinary businesses when the insurance industry deems their property might be the subject of rumours, people with rural hotels, etc.

whomitconcerns

We all pay. Very simple. Scumbags do the damage in "our name". They don't work to a large extent (I am sure some do, but most are just opportunists), so we pay for it all... Either indirectly in tax or increased insurance...

buried

George Soros and the lads

donegal_man

It's not the self declared "patriots" doing it that's for sure.

If anyone convicted of these arson attacks had a lien on their wages or welfare to pay for the restoration of the damaged property then I've a feeling it wouldn't take long for them to roll over on their fellow heroes.

MegamanBoo

It's gotta be a massive cost though at this point I'd think.

If it's increasing the cost of accommodation by even 25%, within a few years it'll come to half a billion.

And I'd think it's far more than 25%, and that's even before AGS costs.

I'd be very interested if someone did a study to put a figure on all this.

ancapailldorcha

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058361988/whos-picking-up-the-bill-for-all-the-burned-out-asylum-seekers-accommodation

Insurance will be paying out but they'll be hiking their premiums as a result. Therefore, everyone will end up paying in a roundabout way.

I don't know the ins and outs of insurance regulation in Ireland but I doubt they can withhold coverage because the genuine concerns folks might turn up and burn a building to the ground. Much higher premiums and inflated accommodation costs are the certain result, IMO.

Kurooi

Same people who pay to bring and house the refugees. Taxpayer.

The profits reaped by construction companies and hotels? They don't go to the taxpayer those go straight back to the hedge funds. Taxpayer money on tap, and the taxpayer pays for it all. We're getting taken for a ride.

munchkin_utd

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122443831#Comment_122443831

it'll be a large cost all right but if the government is providing accomodation themselves rather than paying for 4 star hotels all over the country, at least it should work out cheaper than it has up to now.

in fairness, if Ireland was still a rural backwater like it was in the 1980s with record unemployment (as opposed to record tax income, record number in employment, 2nd richest country in europe etc) nobody would be coming and there'd be no bill for this accomodation.

That would be a far better scenario. The Albania of the atlantic with no immigration, mass emigration, but at least the far right have their ethnically pure long dole queues

TheRepentent

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122441507#Comment_122441507

of the first 19 that appeared in court for the first day in coolock only 2 had jobs.

Beasty

We do not need another thread on refugees/asylum seekers

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