Ukrainian refugees in Ireland - Megathread

I have read about many volunteers in hotels , Ukrainians shops , sorting lifts to destinations,,getting scooters and bikes for kids. Volunteers bringing food , people donating buggies and getting them to people who need them etc etc etc

None of them members of the Red Cross . Fair play to these volunteers who are working daily to help others

Really? How do you know that?

Do all your white goods run on wind? Have you one of those solar washing machines? Or a hand cranked oven?

Presumably your car runs on the power of song?

When was the last time you actually paid a bill? 😕

They already barred us from using them, locals patrolling with drones, holiday home owners not welcome posters, the insanity of the Irish public knows no bounds as they so passionately demonstrated recently.

No WW3, you'd be labelled a Ukrainian Conflict denier and locked up in portlaoise until you change your mind. Remember it's your choice not to give up the holiday home and go to jail. Mob fuelled media rule would win out again.

€400 a month is a joke for a holiday home people use or rent out, will people take up that offer, I don't think so, how did they even come up with that figure especially heading into holiday season when rentals and demand is at its peak.

Helen McEntee saying she'd like to avoid forcing people or businesses to give up their property if possible, is she signalling a maneuver. We've bred an absolute loony bin of wanna be dictators.

The only saving grace is Micheál Martin has one which I didn't hear he's offered up.

Most will hand over something for food I would imagine but some won't when they don't have to. Nobody is going to cash in on this at 400 per month though - I think it's a fair enough gesture for the government to pay.

What - I haven't seen anything that all will be housed within walking distance of all their needs. I don't think this will be the case.

Excellent point and it's beggar's belief the percentage of those who initially pledged seemed to have now disappeared off the face of the earth.

Yesterday it was reported 159 Ukranian refugees now in pledged private accommodation, yes 159. The remainder in Hotels (some now looking for rooms back to honour Sumner bookings), Guest Houses (also only committing to early May), Community halls, now Millstreet.

The "Group Accommodation" model now being touted is in essence direct provision and no Government Politicians dare admit it.

She back flipped and U Turned yesterday by all accounts

Very bad words for her to use.

If you were worried about forcibly l;osign your holiday home you would think twice about letting refugees stay in it for a while.

What are the first targets when it comes to forced acquisition? The ones they already have one foot in because there are already refugees in them.

Thats probably a hat trick of own goals by McEntee in one day.

Can you give us the names of these villages you refer to

She'd like to avoid forcing people to give up their property, would she now, if she and this government go down that route there'll be uproar the like they've never seen, it would make the water charge protests seem like a leisurely Sunday afternoon picnic. There would be an instant and Major legal challenge followed by this government's immediate demise.

Even mentioning such a proposition shows how utterly out of touch she is.

https://www.facebook.com/1467742335/posts/10221448633753089/?app=fbl. It's a pity that genuine people are jumping on the bandwagon.

I've said it here before, but she truly is the most incompetent government minister I've ever seen. Her vacant, empty face reveals her cluelessness every single time. She's like that person in work who has been promoted beyond their abilities and is wreaking havoc on the office, due to their lack of ability.

There has been a spate of horrific murders in this country under her watch. Her response is to run to social media with a nasty little diatribe about the toxic masculinity of 'Irish' men. During the largest refugee crisis that Europe has experienced since WW2, she declares Ireland open to an uncapped number of arrivals, despite zero planning, the pre-existence of an acute housing shortage, an over-burdened education system, and a health service on its knees.

On top of everything else, she's an utter hypocrite as revealed in the 'Independent' yesterday. These noises she is making about forced requisition of peoples' homes, are utterly contemptible and need to be challenged vigorously from the outset. The sheer arrogance of that incompetent individual is breathtaking.

100 % correct and as I pointed out earlier in the thread, some refugees under 25 are having SWA cut, in essence because of the generosity of their host's.

Correct, it will never happen but Helens comments where she stated "Government Hoped not too" raised a few eyebrows and rightly so.