Ukrainian refugees in Ireland - Megathread

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You see this is the problem. What is the point in coming on to Boards day in day out saying "this is disgraceful" "this has to stop" if you actually do NOTHING! There IS a point! We vote in our Government, they are meant to act on our behalf and are paid by us to do so. There are not acting on our behalf now. Where is their mandate to flood our country with immigrants from everywhere and anywhere? Where is their mandate to keep accepting Ukrainian refugees into a country that is bursting at the seams and they end up in tents? Many of these Ukrainians are travelling back for a holiday to visit family, or even going to other European countries to have a holiday (see FB Help Ukrainian pages).

Email or write to every single one of your local TDs and Government representatives! Hundreds of people ARE already doing this. Everyone should be doing it. There is another thread on "multiculturalism in Ireland" and someone posted their email to their local TD's yesterday and I will have copied and pasted it below. They are happy for anyone else to use this template and simply look up your local representatives and email it to them!.

Above all DON'T DO NOTHING. We are a crowd of sheep in this country. We accepted the longest and harshest lockdown in Europe (I didn't!! I was out hiking the mountains and swimming on deserted beaches while people stayed locked up in their homes in utter depression because WE WERE TOLD TO) . There is no fight in the Irish anymore, we just whine and complain and act like doormats. Where is our spirit? If you do one thing in the next 2 days just send the following email or an edited version of it to every single Government representative you know! (including MM, Varadkar, Daragh O Brien, Helen McEntee ).

""Dear TDs, 

What would you describe your job as? What is your remit as a TD? 

From what I can find online, the role of a TD is to be the elected representative of the Irish citizens in the area they are elected. 

There is no mention of being a representative of the UN, the EU, multiple NGOs, Pharma companies, Vulture Funds, Ukraine, Nigeria, Georgia or any other country in the world. 

So why do your parties have Ireland and the Irish people so far down your list of priorities? It has gone beyond incompetence now, and looks more and more like a planned collapse of Ireland. We have porous, open borders. We have rewards for people entering the country illegally. We have sex offenders remaining in the country in contempt of a court order and our gormless Minister for Justice calls it “a complex matter”. We have people flooding into Ireland from “war zones” in Ukraine and heading back on holiday once they have secured social welfare here. We have “asylum seekers” who once granted status head back to the country they are seeking “asylum“ from on holidays. 

We have had a housing issue in Ireland over the last decade and more, we were told there was nothing that could be done about it. Suddenly, we can find housing for thousands of non-Irish people on top of full social welfare, medical cards, free travel etc. If I lose my job tomorrow I’ll have to jump through 100 hoops to get a social welfare payment, multiple forms, bank statements etc. I won’t be housed, fed, watered and given my €208 a week on top of that. I’ll be given €208 to buy food, electricity, heating, rent etc. Thats the thanks an Irish citizen gets after paying taxes for the last 24 years. 

Is there absolutely no one in government with their ear to the ground? Why are you trying to bankrupt the country? Why is there no proper deportation process in a country over run with fake asylum seekers? Why is the government so fearful of NGOs?? 

I don’t want a mealy-mouthed reply back about this, that and the other and doing our best. If this is your best, then admit you aren’t qualified to be in your position and walk away, do the honourable thing for your country. 

I want to know what you, as my representatives in Dáil Éireann are doing to represent me, my family, my friends and the rest of the Irish citizens in Ireland. What are you doing to secure the future of Ireland? Bankrupting us won’t help us. I have absolutely zero faith in any of your parties to represent me. FF and FG may as well merge nowadays and the Greens aren’t even worth mentioning. None of your parties will ever get a vote from me or my family in the future. 

My main hope for the future of Ireland is that the U.K. threaten to close the CTA and it forces Ireland to tighten its borders, and that the upcoming recession forces the IMF to re-enter Ireland and make us fiscally competent again. There is a lot of pain coming worldwide when this upcoming crash kicks in. Hopefully the backlash gives us some decent new parties who are willing to work for the people that pay them and that they can remember who they work for""