Govt to replace Direct Provision with protection system

The come one come all crowd know this full well. Sorcha Pollak has at least twice run articles with people who blatantly state they are there for economic convenience. They just don't care. These people will say "we can help both" yet given the choice of the state buying a specially adapted flat for a disabled child and their family, or a one bed flat for Abdul the 35 year old child refugee, every last one of this mob would spit in the child's face.

Given the numbers of Afghans we are to take seems to double by the day, perhaps some of the femininsts banking on about it would take a look at this.

January, Feb and March of 2018. All of the reports backed with links to mainstream media that reported them.

The word "Afghan" appears TWENTY FOUR times in the article. And that is only where an attacker was apprehended and his identity therefore could be confirmed. Some attacks involved multiple assailants

There are 250,000 Afghans in Germany as per Wikipedia. 20 times less than the population of the Republic of Ireland.

Extrapolated, if the Irish population had the same offending rate, we would see in the region of 480 stranger on stranger sex attacks in the first three months of 2018 in this country.

Would we normally see that many in a decade?

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I'm fairly sure Simon Coveney wanted 20,000 Syrians at one stage.

Irish politics is full of chancers, crooks, sleevens, snakes, but I'm not sure there are any as sinister as dyed in the wool Pan European Globalists like Leo, Harris and most glaringly the Bilderberger himself Coveney. FF's raison d'etre is often confined so county level pay offs- FG are more into selling our bodies on an international market.

Maybe it's recency bias but I honestly don't think "European/ Global citizen before my birth one" types like Macron, Tredeau, Merkel, Starmer and the aforementioned three were really a thing before this century.

I have no doubt certain elements within goverment and lobby groups will use the legitimate need to provide asylum to Afghans to open the doors even further to every Tom, Dick and Mohammed chancher who want a few more bob in their back pocket while hating our values.

The concept of "we can do both" is routinely used by these people to justify this type of thing. It deserves examining.

• Can the Irish state provide an adaquate amount of affordable and social housing for its own citizens, plus similar for refugees? Absolutely it can. Housing is already ridiculously affordable in most of the BMW (border, midlands, West region), it is only people living within easy driving distance of Dublin, and in the immediate vicinity of Cork city, probably Galway city, who struggle to find an affordable home- to alleviate the housing crisis the government only needs to build a few thousand cost price/ social homes per year in our urban areas, which in turn will lead to a fall in the cost of existing homes
• Should they? IMO no, even if the governent did pull the finger out and deliver affordable 3 bed homes at 160k a go (the cost price of building a 3 bed terrace on council owned land in Dublin is circa 160K), refugees and asylum seekers have done nothing to deserve them.

But let's ignore my opinion- can the government deliver affordable/ social housing, plus house a few thousand refugees per year?

Yes. It can. It, however, refuses to, but puts up its hand at every given opportunity to fast track these services to whatever refugee crisis is flavour of the month.

This is where it gets interesting.

PBP "It doesn't need to be a contest, we can do both!"

FG "Well maybe we can do both, but the EU wants a dig out so we will only do one- we will give a few thousand essentially free homes to refugees while working people sweat blood to get deposits or never get one because they're stuck in 1600 per month rentals"

PBP "Fair enough so"

What sort of opposition is this? We can do both, but we won't do both, and nobody in our political system has a problem with which of the two vying groups will end up getting the assistance. It's insane.

I'd somewhat agree with a small number of Afghan programme refugees being put in some sort of communal establishment for a few years, get a job, work towards their own deposit.

Instead the plan here seems to be come in, here's a house after three months, whether you want to bother working is your own prerogative.