Ukrainian refugees in Ireland - Megathread

Ukrainian refugees are not getting citizenship FFS. 🙄

They’re getting it in every way bar the title.

The houses are probably in Leitrim and places like that where we know most won’t accept an offer.

And as I said already there has been vacant houses refurbished and given to the homeless etc for years now.

This is a continuation.

Usual anti everything and what about da Irish homelesssssss getting angry by not having all the facts in hand.

No they aren't, you haven't a scooby.

I just want to point out that even in sparsely populated counties, there are hundreds or thousands on those housing lists, there are people in emergency accommodation in those counties, there are people going into homelessness, and there are empty council houses.

A lot of people would jump at the opportunity to live in rural Leitrim or similar.

That photo really says it all really and MM is so deluded he just doesn't get how messed up his governments approach is.

With everything that is going on at the moment, the only name which keeps coming to my mind is Peter Sutherland, the man whose goal seemed to be to flood Europe with migrants.

I think people are mistaken when they are calling the government naive or clueless or looking for pats on the back from the EU. Events such as those happening right now do not happen by chance but are strictly co-ordinated. It's more likely that the Irish and other eu govs in the EU have been told they must take in however many refugees from the high command.

They can easily sell it to their populations under the guise of being the good guys, giving a helping hand to those in need...and that storyline is obviously being swallowed up by the electorate here hook, line and sinker.

On another level, the country is supplying itself with a lot of cheap labour and more dilution of it's nationalistic identity. As Sutherland said in an interview “we should seek a society and identity defined by its values, not by its sense of nationality. We have had enough tribalism on this island.” 

And this all just leads to more transfer of wealth...the gov will use the taxpayer money to give to vulture funds to buy houses or ask them to build more. more irish tax money gone poof into the clouds.

and big business will be delighted that they can still keeping offering zero hour minimum wage contracts because suddenly there's a new glut of people available for those jobs

inevitably further down the road there will be tensions arising between the native population and the new immigrants over perceived injustices, whether they be accurate or not...but sure the government will love that...will keep the population busy knawing at each other and not noticing what they are getting up to in the background.

Kiefer's dad orchestrated Russia invading Ukraine?

Fúcking hell, who else knows about this?

They have a temporary right to all them.

No Ukrainian Refugees are being offered citizenship, it's not my opinion, it's a fact.

Time to move on.

I'm a single man and can't find anywhere to live so this is more than a bit annoying. And I've always been one for charity but the housing crisis has changed that for me especially on this issue.

The town I live in there literally isn't even an apartment available to rent. I work full time, I'm in my 30s. The last house I was in the landlord sold up and turfed us out and this town doesn't have a college and is quite rural, so there aren't any house shares or rooms available either, so I've had to move into my mother's house which I'm way too old for.

The rise in rents and inflation means I was actually better off financially in my 20s than I am now - and now I can't even live independently as there is no 1 BR apartments (or any flats at all) anywhere near where I work. Tbh I'm too old for house shares now too but i stuck at the last one as there was no other options.

I'd gladly take a free house in Leitrim or anywhere. But as a single person forget it, you get nothing and can afford nothing either unless you're on about double my wage or want to share with strangers.

I actually served a few refugees at my work last week. At my job we sell a product you can get under the medical card. None of them had one yet but they got it all free anyway. And they didn't look struggling in any way, all brand new Nike and Adidas clobber, diesel jeans etc. And they werent all women and children either, one of them was a man about 6 foot 4 in his 30s - were they not meant to be staying there to fight (not that I blame him for getting out if he could.)

I don't get why we are giving away so much. We wouldn't get it from any eastern europe country, would we? And they're not even in the EU.

Put them up in hotels for a bit, fine. But giving them housing that someone working and paying taxes can't even afford is boiling my blood. And I am generally pretty left wing. I'm drawing the line at giving away houses though, when I am sitting here wondering where I can live, I already know I can never own a house, and I'm a working Irish born citizen - it isn't right.

50 acres with an existing dwelling for less than 2 grand an acre.

Same as that for myself accommodation wise. At this stage I've tried several different counties, and nearly every county is dry. I was even willing to pay far more than I should to rent in a certain tourist hotpot, and out of all the places I tried, and we're talking 30 to 40 different properties, I only managed to get one viewing. I don't think your average person who has the security of a home really gets how bad the situation is, and it's only going to get worse too.

Okay, come back to me in a few years so. 👍️

I hear you and can fully appreciate how your feeling.

I raised the issue about these apparent Medical Cards being lashed out and pointed out few if any have actually been processed, of course I got slapped down over that but you've confirmed what I and others have been saying.

I'm single myself, purchased a cottage in very rural Laois, small mortgage remaining and I just honestly don't know how people like yourself and young couples with children etc cope with the High Rents. Easy for me to say but I do hope things will improve for you 😉