What are your views on Multiculturalism in Ireland? - Threadbanned User List in OP

Mass immigration has no impact whatsoever on anyones ability to purchase property. That’s entirely the responsibility of the individual, based on their means to be able to pay for it.

I’m more amazed by your ability to determine anyones citizenship just by looking at them tbh.

Look Brexit was pushed through precisely because a huge swath of the British public were and still are p***ed off with the politicians, the political classes, the elites, the media celebs and the media.

Now some of it is indeed the old English jingoistic we had an empire but some of it is just people fed up.

And yes part of that was with immigration, although in their case a chunk of it was Eastern Europeans.

If you were a savy politician in this country you should be looking at two things with showed really what a lot of people think.

The first was the citizenship referendum. The Irish people were tired that people were abusing a loophole and basically pulling the pi**. That yes was only campaigned by FF/PDs, FG sat on the sidelines and Greens, Labour and Shinners all campaigned against it.

People should remember how patriotic those shinners really are.

The second was Peter Casey.

Casey was going nowhere, was actually pretty pathetic as a candidate, but he uttered some home truths about another protected and beloved group of the politicians, media, celebs and NGOs.

He finished with over 22% of the votes despite the fact he was generally awful as a candidate, despite him being hounded by the media and every other shade of politician and every liberal loon in the country. Anyone that dared support him publicly was hounded yet over 22% of the electorate found his message something they could agree with and get behind.

The reason the likes of Renua, National Party or any of these so called right wing parties never get anywhere is they usually are tied in with religious nutjobs that want us to resurrect archbishop McQuade and want to roll back on abortion, divorce, same sex, homoesexuality legislation.

And they usually want to leave EU.

All of that makes them unpalatable to most of the electorate.

But if sooner or later someone comes along with social liberal ideas, but tough on bogus immigration, crime, career welfareists, etc they will start making headway.

throughout the world there is growing disconnect between mainstream politicians/political parties, the connected ones like big business, media, NGOs and huge swaths of the electorate that always end up paying for the merry-go-round the aforementioned ones gain most.

Foreign workers in service industry jobs - where are they living?

They must be in houses with 10+ people sharing, and each paying 200 - 300 each.

No way a low income worker is paying 600 - 700 per month.

Obviously, they do. They increase the demand which increase the prices for both rentals and sales, this is how it works. We shouldn't blame them, it's not their (or our, I'm one) fault, but we can't ignore the facts.

If you deported every immigrant in the morning, it would put a large dent in our housing issue, so I totally disagree. I'm 31 years old, and have been all but forced to live in a situation I don't want to live in, because I can't get accommodation elsewhere, and I've tried several different counties. Of course governments are to blame, but when it comes down to it it's a numbers game, and mass immigration adds thousands to those numbers every year. It doesn't matter if it's renting or buying, people are struggling to get either.

Some immigration is obviously very good for a country, but the way it is now isn't suitable at all.

Really we need sensible limits to prevent runaway house prices, schools getting overcrowded and hospitals being too busy. If you take in too many people too fast that's what will inevitably happen. Allowing anyone from any EU country to arrive really isn't suitable, it'd be wonderful if it did work, but it can't.

A more sensible means might be to have a set amount we'd take per annum from EU nations, say 30,000, and have a visa lotto, so it'd still be open to anyone to apply, but Ireland wouldn't end up with a situation where too many come at once.

Unfortunately the EU is very wedded to open borders and even moderate restrictions aren't allowed.

Since I don't have the numbers I will defer to the one that do to analyze the size of the impact. What I can surely say in that from those 66% 100% of them need accommodation.

LOL

Sure, I said that much, it's not their fault and they can't be blamed.

It’s not simply a question of supply and demand. The question is one of affordability.

Affordable housing schemes in Ireland ended in 2011, and there are plans to introduce new affordable housing schemes in Ireland -

Having been involved in the construction sector for decades I can say with some confidence that the onset of mass immigration changed the market hugely. It was a major factor in the boom, and a huge reason for the shortage of properties now.

You can still argue in favour of the kind of large scale immigration of the type we have, of course, but the way the property market has gone over the last 15 years certainly is a downside.