Ukrainian refugees in Ireland - Megathread

NGOs are very loosely defined though, includes hospitals, universities etc.

And that is heavily distorted by the big cities like Kyiv. it’s likely less than half that for the majority

They are the greatest scandalous farce of the past 25 years…all cronies on massive salaries. All in with the media and political elite too. They sicken me

I would believe a word of anyone with that handle says. There is no mention of tents. That account will wonder why we have no space but allow infinite appeals and no deportations

It is rather interesting, though I think the narrative is families is important to those in Kinnegad.

The "it's ok its Ukranians" is going to build resentment, a number of people I work with in Visas have already commented on it

I think the chickens are coming home yo roost with open door economic migration- it’s becoming so big that it is very visible now in local communities- these people are competing for scarce resources and not surprisingly local people do not like it.

Well said and it's really going to get very heated .

That doesn't equate to 50 on their leap card.

I wonder will Ukraine ever fully get into the EU Tent (no pun intended) , we have this bizzare spectle of Miliions of displaced Ukrainian citizens and whilst many will return, they certainly won't from Ireland. Oddly enough over crowding and Tents may change that but I know the plan is to block book more hotels for the winter, it's extraordinary.

When and If the EU Directive is suspended the Irish Government will have to make some serious decisions wether they like it or not . Wether they intended numbers to reach 100k (Highly likely) I believe they quite deliberately wanted 40k ish in the Niave hope Irish people would accomodate them and they'd fill hospitality jobs, instead they've ended up being free guests of the hospitality sector at enormous cost to the taxpayer.

I seriously don't believe the Irish people would Tolerate offering Blanket Irish Citizenship , they've only got Temporary protection so it's going to be a serious conundrum, I've always seen this fast tracking of EU membership (an absolute disgrace) as a means to get over the Citizenship challenge. The problem with this however is the costs and then the EU being obligated to commit Billions to rebuild the second most corrupt county in the world. A mess no matter what way we look at it. At a minimum it may take up to 10 years to get full EU membership if ever and meanwhile we are looking at state supports for at least 40k , perhaps more for a very, very, very long time.

I absolutely agree I can see the EU imploding over this , their leaderships approach is completely unsustainable, eitherway our own government have created an absolute mess and clearly still don't get it.

I 10000% agree with the above, it’s absolute contempt and attempting to posture and position themselves to be enabling to receive the votes of people who will become citizens here.. ‘ remember when FG did x for us ‘

Martin just isn’t a leader… he has capable aspects but leadership isn’t one… no other time in the history of the Republic has strong leadership been required and we have Martin, and then Leo skulking in the shadows.

I think you could be on to something. Fella with a B&B down the road was giving it the whole wink-wink-nudge-nudge last year that he had something in the pipeline. I now suspect he might have gotten onto Putin directly and forced him to invade Ukraine as B&B fella was finding it hard to get kitchen staff.

Exactly, in addition I didn’t even mention route numbers but Maryanne can tell us people are not using the route. Jeeeez

How many Ukrainian Arrivals in your local electoral area