What are your views on Multiculturalism in Ireland? - Threadbanned User List in OP

The thing is, the immigrants who are here will never leave. The genie is out of the bottle on that one. No politician on the right is calling for the deportation of immigrants. Instead people just want controls on FUTURE illegal migrants.

Everyone is at the beginning, when the costs involved are low, and there's little actual friction due to populations being divided among many different minority groups.

However, all you have to do is look at the "multicultural" nations of the world to see that extended periods within a multicultural society (in the modern sense) leads to dramatically increased costs, and societal problems, often not related directly to the immigrants themselves, but the bodies and ideologies that spring up around them, either to support or represent them.

The US is screwed. A large part of that is their historical racism, and elitism, but the spread of university led social movements have greatly contributed to the divided nature of their societies. All the European nations who previously supported multiculturalism, are now turning to conservative/right wing political groups, and/or tightening the laws and regulations over immigration and citizenship. In fact, apart from Ireland, I can't think of any nation currently pushing the perception that multiculturalism is a good thing, while backing it up with their own State policies.

As for being enriched, that's mostly rubbish and you know it. You might have more access to foreign restaurants or there's an "asian" shop down the road, but the actual interactions between Irish people and foreign groups is rather limited. A large part of that is the after effects of covid, but there's societal reasons too, in addition to the foreign cultures own interests not to mingle beyond the most superficial of ways.

increased poverty, homelessness, expanded ghettoization, domestic and child abuse, gang culture, interracial/intercultural violence/crime, drug usage and consequently spread of disease...

Two can play at that game.

And no I'm not "blaming" immigrants for all of that although they remain highly represented in all of it.

Oh, and it's quite possible considering the resources represented in the US, the original settlers and Imperial plantations (without further immigration) could have done all the things you mentioned. Immigration just accelerated the process dramatically.

Great providing more funding to process IPAT applications faster but we all know McEntee has no intention of not granting leave to remain to every chancer who hasn't proved their case for asylum.

"There have been about 10,000 applications for international protection in Ireland so far this year, compared with 3,000-4,000 in previous years. This is on top of the 50,000 Ukrainian refugees currently staying in Ireland. It is estimated, based on current trends, another 10,000 will arrive from Ukraine before the end of the year.

“In terms of the international protection numbers, I do believe that this is probably a more permanent change,” Ms McEntee said. She noted that countries across Europe were seeing similar increases.

“I think it’s just a representation of the changing environment, a changing world and many global challenges that people are facing, including climate and war. So we need to be able to respond.”

"The Minister was speaking on Wednesday following the announcement in the budget of an additional €18 million in funding to speed up the process of applying for refugee status and “to reduce the risk of people remaining in the system for long periods with uncertainty about their status”.

This funding would go towards expanding the number of people processing with international protection applications, she said."