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

Thanks, I was scanning ‘our’ cso website :)

‘These games’, as you put it, are never brought out to play unless someone makes the utterly ridiculous claim yet again that at some non-specific point in time in the distant future “We’ll be a minority in our own country”, or words to that effect.

There are no indigenous people on the island of Ireland any more. There haven’t been in a long, long time, not since mass migration from Europe, again, many, many years ago -

https://newsone.com/4329658/black-people-with-blue-eyes-irish/amp/

You’re being disingenuous when you claim that when an Irish person uses the terms ‘native Irish’ or ‘indigenous Irish’ to describe the Irish people, not passport holders; the open borders crowd get very offended indeed and play useless word games. Who’s playing useless word games exactly if not you with your ‘indigenous’ and ‘native’ crap? The people you’re referring to aren’t indigenous either, though they may be native, as is anyone who is born on the island of Ireland, because Ireland is where they originate from.

As for your claim that these games are never brought out to play when discussing non-European indigenous groups, yes they are, and generally by the same people who claim they will be a minority in their own country too.

Eh? Yes it does mean David Norris is native Congolese? Why wouldn’t it? He was born there to an English father and and Irish mother, and was sent to live with his mother in Ireland when his father died -

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/senator-david-norris-tells-how-22002580?int_source=amp_continue_reading&int_medium=amp&int_campaign=continue_reading_button#amp-readmore-target

The only logic that’s any way strange around here is your own individual logic by which you think you should be able to declare and define what does or doesn’t constitute either being a native of Ireland, being of Irish nationality, being an Irish citizen, and I’ll bet you don’t even care that the majority of immigrants to Ireland every year come from our nearest neighbour - the UK, and the majority of applications for citizenship are from people of UK origin (with people from the US coming in second who want to maintain dual citizenship) -

https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-cp7md/p7md/p7anii/

https://assets.gov.ie/215174/d30d6eb9-f172-4bb2-9ddb-8b2998497d86.pdf

How you can possibly make out that Irish people will be a minority in their own country at some point in the future (2040 seems to be the go-to figure, and by 2050 apparently Islam will have taken over Europe 😂), yet accuse anyone who questions the legitimacy of your ludicrous claim of “playing word games”, is the reason why people cannot take your claims seriously.

It’s an attempt to discourage people from questioning your claims, or looking for any sort of actual evidence or foundation for your claims. As it stands, you can’t even define who you’re referring to as being in any sort of a minority, unless maybe you mean native Irish speakers? Then yes, they’re in a minority in their own country. Are English speakers a minority in Ireland? I don’t think so 😂

Because international law is outdated and won't let them

Congrats all, if only someone could have seen this coming

Hopefully all that virtue can help these people that will now end up on the streets

Right! Seriously, it's time to close the shutters on this country and deal with the complete mess this government have created by letting in an unlimited amount of genuine and disingenuous refugees.

This is on top of our disgraceful housing crisis and to top things off, taking away people's local employment and industry by placing refugees in hotels, B&Bs and hostels. 25% of hotels being used in this country to house refugees, at last count.

Real bright spark and logical stuff at work here, not!

Did the government miss their lessons in primary school about how Capacity works. Overflow, overflow, overflow!

You didn't refute my claims even slightly

So the data is wrong and you are right?

Would your time not be better served refuting the actual data instead of having yet another personal pop at me?

Or is just the obvious boring deflection?

The worrying thing is I don't hear a word of dissent from other government TDs about Helen mcentee n o gorman. The first clown gave an amnesty to everyone in direct provision n the second clown wants everyone that turns up here to have their own pads n full dole after 4 months.

In that article 25% of all hotel beds are now gone for asylum seekers n refugees. I'll wager it's higher in counties along the wild Atlantic way that are hugely dependant on tourism. If those hotels are not back for tourists from paddies day on towns over there will be decimated. Unfortunately that 25% will more likely be higher then.