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

As far as i can see, the main issue being repeated is settling too many migrants together, they dont have to assimilate and start enclaves and resentment grows from both sides then. Where im from alot of the asylum seeker kids play gaa and inetgrate very well as they have to as they are vastly outnumbered. Its best scenario but in that white paper i think Roderic o gorman was on about settling more migrants together- crazy stupid decision.

Ireland receives roughly 60k mgrants a year right now... that's going to continue, and if anything will increase as places like Denmark limit their migration quotas. So, we're still firmly in the crosshairs, and our governments still haven't any truly effective action plans to ensure integration.

I don’t expect you to aim for balance, but I didn’t imagine context was expecting too much -

Of the 65,200 people who migrated to Ireland in the year to April 2021, some 30,200 (46.3%) were estimated to be Irish nationals, the highest returning number of Irish nationals since 2007. Of the 54,000 emigrants from Ireland, 22,800 (42.2%) were estimated to be Irish nationals. Consequently, Ireland experienced net inward migration of Irish nationals, rising to +7,300 in 2021 from 500 in 2020.

https://emn.ie/immigration-decreases-by-nearly-24-in-year-to-april-2021/

Nothing has been done on what, exactly?

The point of me mentioning the PAC is that they ensure the State is getting value for money. That would suggest by any reasonable interpretation that they are the body to which Government is accountable for it’s expenditure, and knowing that much, it’s not unreasonable to assume that the various departments do have plans and budgets and so on.

Do plans always go to plan? No, and to argue that would be just as silly as trying to argue that there is no plan, when we know that there is (as aspirational and all as it may be, and published before the current circumstances in which we find ourselves) -

A study was done by UCL into the costs to the British exchequer associated with Non-EU and EU migrants.

Between 1995-2011, Non-EU migrants took out £120 billion more in benefits than they contributed to the Exchequer.

EU migrants contributed a surplus of £20 billion.

That will give you some indication of the financial cost differential.

That will give you some indication of the financial cost differential.

No it won’t, because without any context or explanation, they’re just figures. A four year old would be able to tell that one figure is greater than the other, but that’s all could be determined from what you’ve written. It provides nothing more than misleading information.

A study from University College London (UCL) in 2014 (following a discussion paper in 2013), came to this conclusion.

Their main results estimated that during the years 1995-2011 the total fiscal impact of EEA migrants in the UK was about +£4.4 billion (an annual average of close to +£0.3 billion per year).

On the other hand, the total fiscal impact of non-EEA migrants for this period was estimated at -£118 billion (an annual average of close to -£6.9billion). The corresponding value for the UK-born population during the same period was a net fiscal cost of -£591 billion, meaning that over the whole period there wasn’t a big difference between the contributions of immigrants and the UK-born population on a per capita basis.

https://fullfact.org/immigration/how-immigrants-affect-public-finances/

I didn’t say that though. I provided context for the misinformation in the post I quoted. Your interpretation is entirely your responsibility.

I’ve not only demonstrated that it was misinformation, I’ve demonstrated why it was misinformation.

Another interpretation of the information I provided is that British nationals are a disaster for the British taxpayer, and I have no doubt that someone, somewhere, makes that absolute disaster of an argument.

In the same way, I have no doubt you’ve seen research that supports your beliefs. I’m hardly expected to be surprised by that, am I? Is anyone? Someone is, maybe.

Well now you’re just being straight up dishonest, and you can’t expect that anyone should have to provide you with a reason when the basis of your own arguments is to misrepresent what has gone before already. It would be pointless to provide you with more ammunition, wouldn’t it?

That would be an incredibly simplistic point of view tbh. Consider for example the news I’ve just read where I can already see how it could be bound to upset some people, because it goes against everything they’ve been arguing up to this point -

146,300 people are now working in the construction sector. There is also growing interest for employment permits from abroad, with 27,000 applications in 2021.

Politicians demonstrating yet again that an electorate gets the people they vote for -

Following on from a tense exchange during Leaders' Questions today, Micheál Martin said that Sinn Féin were trying to portray Government as some sort of "elite, upper class cabal".

He said that when he looks at the likes of Eoin Ó Broin, Sinn Féin's Housing Spokesperson, he considers such jibes "a bit rich".

Mr Martin said the party should "stop lecturing people as if somehow you're the working-class hero".

Classy.

Should have put back on the first plane back to Brussels but managed to stay for 3 years no doubt costing the state a fortune in legal bills.

"The Minister, citing EU’s regulations and the agreements governing applications for asylum, deemed that the woman’s bid for international protection should be handled by the Belgian authorities.

The woman, who has been in Ireland for three years, first entered the EU through Brussels on a Belgian visa. 

She had been in Belgium for a couple of days before arriving in Ireland, where she first applied for protection.

Appeal to minister

She claims that the Minister should use her discretion, and cancel the proposed transfer, allowing the woman to seek International Protection in Ireland.

The woman, from the Democratic Republic of Congo, pleaded that she should be allowed remain here on humanitarian grounds, because she had formed relationships during her time in Ireland and due to the risks posed by Covid-19.

The Minister refused her application and said there were no reasons to indicate that the transfer to Belgium would put the woman at risk, nor would the move breach any of her rights, including her rights under the European Convention on Human Rights.

In High Court judicial review proceedings, the woman sought to quash the Minister’s refusal to halt the transfer."