Was the government right to put no limit on the amount of Ukrainian refugees in Ireland? Read OP

It's perfectly reasonable to have personally done nothing to make the student accommodation situation better, and yet still point the finger at you.

You are, after all, actively supporting policies that have made it substantially worse.

In the previous thread I mentioned about a bungalow that is currently being converted and chalets built to accommodate 39 refugees in a rural area about 12km from the nearest town.

An associate of the guy building it has now gotten the same idea and has started construction of a similar chalet setup to accommodate up to 30.

These two guys are far from humanitarians. They are two of the biggest money hungry scumbags around. One tore out about 2-3km of hedgerow and destroyed an acre of two of habitat that had not been touched in decades to make space for his failing dairy business last winter.

Not to worry though, both seem quite confidant that they're going to have a great choice of cheap workers for their farms if their mouthing off in the pub this week is anything to go by.

What are we getting in return? What rewards will we gain for being seen to facilitate this - I mean specific, material ones, not nebulous 'influence'?

If you think the government is 'sluggish' about resolving the accommodation issue, you must have a simple solution in your mind that everyone has missed. One that quickly and cheaply produces lots of homes in the right location without affecting any of the various competing interests in the housing market. How about you go ahead and state it?

If you're seriously suggesting our membership would have been in peril: the EU doesn't even have a legal mechanism to expel us.

Yes I think numbers of refugees should be capped . If we want to give shelter and look after refugees then we need to be sure we have decent warm safe shelter . It is very unfair to invite people in then they find out they are housed in tents or sport halls etc . This should be made clear to them before they come

I also think it should be regulated and young able bodied men and women put in tents and hotel rooms and offered homes first offered to elderly , ill or disabled and women with young children .

I posted before about a friend with a beautiful flat with room for 3 or 4 was asked by the RC to take a single ( no disability ) 30 year old male . Absolutely ridiculous when small children are in hotel rooms or sport halls

I think anyone in a situation where they get free meals , free rooms and no bills absolutely shouldn’t be getting full €203 . We now have a situation where a refugee would have more disposable income than a resident of Ireland who find themselves unemployed or indeed more disposable income than a pensioner on SW pension .

This is all becoming clear to people and causing unease and unrest

Absolutely we should take genuine refugees who are fleeing from a dreadful war and taking their children out of a situation where they are terrified . But we must make sure those who need our help are helped and those who are seeking only to cash on what is on offer are filtered out

Somebody on the last thread had a link to the figures on a site for international help. It showed that we are not taking in a relatively low amount but that we have quite a high amount for our population like, and they compared it to the amount of Ukrainian refugees that are in Europe right now. I don't know how to find the latest figures but on the last thread we had 50000 and there was something like 2 and a half million in Europe. I can't link to it but I have showed it to a lot of my friends here and everyone agrees it is madness when you look around and see how it is effecting everything. It makes no sense to me to have no limit to the amount of them coming in. So far we have only taken in a quarter of the final amount that it is estimated we will take in like. How are we going to take in that many because I don't see the houses being built that fast and it isn't just the Ukrainians that are suffering anymore

Major cash cow, so not surprising, plenty of cheap labor to work in their factories too

Also happened with my local nursing home where my daughter had a part time job that was helping to fund her college living expenses. Absolutely no thought give to the elderly residents and their families that were devastated.. Disgraceful stuff

Don't know. but that family owns 2 in Westport