Ukrainian refugees in Ireland - Megathread

It took a while but Tent Cities will become the new norm . Hotels currently not being used must be getting anxious, I presume they'd thought they'd clean up at the end of the tourist season.

What have the good people of Meath done to deserve all this Attention, First Laytown, planning for near 600 temporary homes lodged, Bettystown becoming a Black Sea resort town and now Gormanstown getting its own Tent City , what could possibly go wrong 🤔

At this rate when new constituency boundaries drawn up they'll need 10 TD'S to represent the constituency.

there's been an executive helicopter flying all over north county dublin the last couple of months...usually the radar is not being tracked on flightradar24 but the odd time it was switched on, i got the reg and discovered it's associated with US vulture funds. my theory is that they've been scouting for locations. today 2 of them actually flew by, trailing each other. i reckon any farmland near the M1 is ripe for the picking. cementing over more of the most fertile land in the country.

Their forever home. Can you offer a refugee a forever home!! Ffs it sounds like the adds for rescue dogs.

I'm glad I missed that interview, I may have sent in an inappropriate Tweet .

There's to my mum mind ou Two high profile presenters who've asked that difficult question , Sarah and Katie Hannon, the rest at RTE , virtue signalling cheerleaders who wouldn't know what hardship is or the cost of living crisis for that matter.

I agree, that is not a credible belief.

Im looking forward to this as it will happen. It might wake enough up when their kids can't get student accommodation and actually cause a change. Get those who are comfortable in their 40s and 50s to feel some pain here.

These politicians only concerned and focused on one thing, their 2 month Holiday, there in complete denial, delusionary and completely out of touch with reality.

There are some suggestions to cap the admissions number, however they all get rejected. The easiest workaround for this situation is to reduce the €901 payment to the average European, which is around €300 and watch the numbers fall. The current number of arrivals for the past two months was about 7000 a month.

"Carol Nolan, an independent MP in Ireland's parliament, said the arrivals were putting pressure on housing availability. 

"I am conscious this is a difficult and sensitive issue and we must tread carefully if we are to avoid blame being targeted at those who least deserve it," she said. "However, I am convinced that if we do not learn to find some way of exploring in a grown-up, pragmatic and constructive way the links between unsustainable levels of inward migration or asylum into this state and housing, then we will never find a meaningful solution to an already overwhelming crisis."

"We will not introduce any caps in that regard", responded housing minister Darragh O'Brien. 

"We have the most significant housing plan in the history of the state involving €4 billion a year in exchequer investment. 

"It will deliver 300,000 homes between now and 2030."

Ireland's Taoiseach, or prime minister, Micheál Martin, has also rejected any calls for the number of migrants to be capped, and he spoke of a warm welcome for those fleeing conflict."

https://www.euronews.com/2022/07/06/dublin-rejects-capping-refugee-arrivals-amid-housing-crisis-claims

Brilliant!