Ukrainian refugees in Ireland - Megathread

Hotel booked out in Dublin on a Saturday night shocker!!!

Any your claim

Cheapest hotel in Dublin for 1 night next month is €600

Is false, hardly that hard to fact check, maybe you would like to retract it?

I'm not looking for a random night am I.

Well you never specified what night you were unable to find anything for less than €600, did you? So I went for a random Friday night.

https://www.bruegel.org/dataset/national-policies-shield-consumers-rising-energy-prices

Check out the chart to see the percentage of GDP allocated to shield households from energy inflation. We’re second last. 0.2% of GDP but 3 billion set aside for the refugee crisis.

Self-inflicted refugee crisis I might add. All we had to do was take an amount that was sustainable and practical, but noooo.. that wouldn't have played as well in the EU for Leo, Helen and Micheal.

Ireland has always severely under-invested in infrastructure, and especially sustainability measures - and it's gonna severely bite us in the ass over the next year or two. Until the war in Ukraine is over and Russia can sell cheap energy to the west, again. Can't bring in a windfall tax, either, in case it puts off more energy companies from opening here... 🤔

There are so many going back, well over half have already gone back.

As for the EU directive ending, that does not have to stop Ireland continuing to take/cram them in for as long as possible, in the same way the directive doesn't state we have to take in the amount we are at the minute, and give them full benefits. They'll all be after citizenship too, the more we have, the more will try.

As for posting rubbish, you contradict yourself with every fake post about your bullsh*t empathy for the poor Ukrainians, if anyone has been spouting rubbish here for a record time, it your good self with your ongoing never ending rubbish.

When the schools are involved there are feck all kids, the school will barely notice them. When it's tents. there are thousands upon thousands of kids, they can't be there (by the way, that would be the governments fault).

No matter how rural a college student is in Ireland, they can cycle to a college, get a job, buy a cheap house and scrape a mortgage. When it is the Ukrainian Refugees, they can't do anything for themselves. Completely helpless it seems. Nor can they be expected to live any distance from anywhere even if they have free travel to get there.

Two homeless people are constantly rattled off and used as a measure for the homeless in general to cite reasons almost as to why they deserve nothing, it's almost the childrens own fault being born by homeless parents ("it's not our fault homeless johnny had a ride with homeless mary"). But when the Ukrainians are stereotyped in any way, including being known as a corrupt and fairly racist nation, that's a nope, you know them all too well from standing handing out food to them even though most can't speak a word of English, and you can vouch for them all.

Give over.

They’ll probably ask us for their air fare over…you couldn’t blame them for asking, our generosity thus far..free..

housing

cash

education

public transport

driving licences

healthcare

You wouldn’t wonder at them being a bit miffed if taxpayers weren’t throwing in an auld Aer Lingus flight…to resettle them in Ireland with the above goodies.

Over half have gone back? So... we don't have "over 50,000, it'll be 100,000 by Christmas, mark my words!" We only have roughly 25,000? Grand, so, what's all the panic been about. Plenty of room!

It might be 100,000 by Xmas if other countries stop their allowances.

The current flow is 1000 a week approx, so maybe 66,000 for the year add in another 20,000 other asylum seekers thats 88,000 end of year.

That is prior to UK and other countries supports running out.

We know we arent going to magically build lots of houses within a year.....will the hotels still be occupied next year...30,000, 40,000, 50,0000 hotel rooms...crazy. What happens next Summer?

I think the (original) plan was called 'Ireland 2040' and the plan was an extra million by 2040. That has changed and is a million by 2030 - and 5 million by 2050 or something similar. I'm pretty sure it has been mentioned here a few times.