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

We do not have the infrastructure. Infrastructure can be best described as the systems in place to structure an economy, such as personnel, buildings, equipment and processes.

We certainly have the land mass, against our built structures. Taking a small plane or helicopter trip around the country can be quite the eye opener.

Here’s the latest I can find about our population growth

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/bucking-the-trend-ireland-s-population-is-still-growing-relatively-strongly-1.4661464

My argument is that we do not have the well-developed processes in place, and not a proper handle on holistic management of social provision. Ask anyone who is actually in need of housing or is in a queue of over a year to have an operation. Or someone who has recently moved but cannot get signed up to a local surgery, as they are now ‘oversubscribed’. Our housing provision, across both the public and private sector, is dysfunctional. At this moment in time, it’s probably at its most dysfunction. I think we can all agree on that.

It’s been well documented that our housing stock grew by circa 10,000 between 2011 and 2016, according to Census 2016, although during the same period our population rose by around 170,000. So, in 5 years we got to a number not too dissimilar to what may, and I stress, may, as we don’t know the final numbers of Ukrainians expected to come to Ireland. But it could be for this year alone, the numbers of population growth in the last 5 years we have records for.

We can put any numbers quickly in hotels although for how long – 6, 9 months, and then look to some sort of move on accommodation? It’s then we get to the great disconnect. We’ve been woeful (due to poor council enforcement of it) in managing the vacant site levy, which was put in place in January 2018, more than 4 years ago. We’ve also skipped around any proper implementation of dealing with empty properties. You don’t need to go up in the air to see that. Just take a short drive between towns and villages, they’re everywhere, and then when you get to a town or village, take a walk around. I rest my case.

That ‘disconnect’ evolves when we look at the role of the State and its enforcers on the ground, namely the local authorities. Fine, if you think that works well, you’re not for changing your view but professionally I’ve seen enough myself to have very little confidence.

Moving on 6-9 months, if the various sections of the State apparatus are able to accommodate the needs of up to 200k, across housing, health, and education, then many will be asking why wasn’t this undertaken at anytime over the last decade?

Sinn Fein will very probably just flood the country with people. Those arriving illegally as they are on record as saying they want to make legal.. according to out government about 17,000 are here, now, illegally . …Sinn Féin were happy to support a radical policy of handing out Irish citizenship with virtually no restrictions – a policy which 80% of voters had already rejected within recent memory.

Sinn Fein they have demonstrated (again) that their first loyalty is not to Irish people, Ireland or it’s taxpayers…

Creaking services like transport, housing and healthcare won’t stand a chance… with a six figure population increase…

Where do the extra GNIB / BMU staff come from ? Trained, managed, logistically facilitated there ? My neighbour is recently retired from being a member, they are understaffed and have been for aons… do we remove Gardai off the streets.? Again impacting the wellbeing of taxpayers, tourists, visitors and everyone as is the trend.

Garda response times in Dublin City can be up to 35 minutes

Very much aligned to your attitudes on asylum seeking.

Always wanting more, regardless of how many there actually are..

Doesn’t exactly answer my question though does it :)

ok, you make points but refuse to discuss… no problem :)

Correct, good post.

You have no idea of the background of these non-white people but you somehow found this picture as you somehow found the video you posted from a guy who kick a dog and was caught being racist to a taxi driver for no reason.

How much does it really annoy you when you see non white people in this kind of situation? Please go into detail as I honestly get a kick out of reading these kinds of posts. It's highly enjoyable to see the hopelessness from people who are taking issue with other people for their skin colour. There is absolutely nothing you can do about non-white Ukrainian nationals taking every benefit offered to them as they flee a warzone. I'm sure the crowd gave them all a lovely round of applause at the game. Great to see :)

The burden of proof should be "prove you're Ukrainian" and not "Prove they're not Ukrainian" when we're dealing with large numbers.

The burden of proof of your claims, is on you, when you make claims which are based upon nothing more than your own prejudices. You come out with racist tripe, expect to be called racist. That’s what’s just common sense, it’s also the logical consequence of your behaviour.

You’re the person making the accusations, that’s why the burden of proof is on you to provide evidence to support your accusations against anyone, because everyone is entitled to the presumption of innocence. Doesn’t matter how many people you think agree with you or anything else, that doesn’t make your accusations of wrongdoing against other people any more legitimate.

It’s you who is using this situation to make it a race issue, as you’re the person who made the original claim. Nobody else turned it into a race issue, just you, and on that basis you provide plenty of evidence to support the argument that you’re a racist. It’s not anyone else who is making claims without supporting evidence.

Your hoping that someone who disagrees with you is the victim of someone else’s behaviour is just demonstrating that not only are you racist, you’re pretty damn spiteful to boot.

The taxpayers has now been hit with a €500 taxi fare to take three Palestinian ‘asylum shoppers’ in their 20's Dublin airport to Claremorris,Mayo after arriving in on a flight from Italy. These three already claimed asylum in an EU country before deciding to flee war-torn Italy. They should have been placed on the next flight back to Italy. Our system is already strained with these chancers as it is, illegals too, while we take in a massive amount of legitimate refugees from Ukraine who are in desperate need of our help and accommodation, tho I'm sure some Sinn Fein cheerleader with the Palestinian flag and their pronouns in their bio is all too delighted at this

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/taxpayers-hit-for-500-dublin-to-mayo-taxi-fare-for-three-asylum-shoppers-41491413.html