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

The Vacant Homes Tax will not be effective, as once you live in the house for 31 days, it is defined as not vacant, and exempt from the tax.

It can be empty for 330 days, and not be taxable.

Nah, they wouldn't have been. Pro-Ukrainian posters on here have been saying for ages that they shouldn't be getting hotel accommodation, three meals a day provided and full dole. I do wonder where they're supposed to get their meals, though? You can't cook in a hotel.

You don't want the place to go to rack and ruin, you don't have a housing policy that rewards developers for hoarding land banks, and property owners for keeping properties vacant, in the middle of a housing crisis. We have border controls. And the limit on amount of help wouldn't start with people who've had their country invaded, their homes blown up and their families raped and murdered.

What is the government's refusal policy? It's not as if Ukrainians has got other options out there. So just the government looking as if they're doing something.

All the while they are fast tracking the building of modular homes for them but never mind about our own homeless and those on housing lists.

This is just a bitter rant. I have my name on the housing list for a year. I shouldn't have to wait 10+ years to get a place when they are fast tracking building modular homes for Ukrainians. There's something so unfair about that.

This though is part of the problem, we as a state have a problem managing all these Ukrainian and non Ukrainian refugee and asylum seekers. The state needs to use whatever accommodation assets it can use to best effect, so if that means as a refugee you're happy out in Killarney but the state needs you to move, then you move. This wasn't an isolated case, I heard others housed in various places that didn't suit them and wanted to get to Dublin etc. This pisses off ordinary Irish folk, our kids might like to live in Dublin say but haven't a hope of affording the rent there even if they can find somewhere. So why should the state be bending over to facilitate the wishes and whims of refugees???

Pretty sure homeless have different worries right now.

Let me give just one example of the madness thats going on.

A little village 5k outside of Castlebar called Breaffy,population approximately 1000.

It has a lovely hotel complex called Breaffy resort comprising of two hotels and a sports event centre.Last year one of the hotels was given over to Ukrainians,it's houses 350.The community generally supported this,the Ukrainians integrated well,found jobs where they could etc.Any of them I talked to are very grateful of where they are,their main concern is when they can go home.The local school of course is overwhelmed, you can't get into a GP etc but the situation is accepted by most as an emergency and temporary

Now the sports arena attached to this hotel has being converted into a direct provision or "international protection " centre.This was done covertly over a period of 3 weeks.A team of workers were brought in from the North rather than anybody local to keep it under wraps. The locals are furious with these underhanded tactics where a community of 1000 people now has to deal with 350 Ukrainian refugees and 200 "international protection" refugees,one in 3 people in this small village are now refugees. The hotel took the government blank cheque but its the community who pays in reality.This news broke on the same day that Michàel Martin said we have to do more.The anger is palpable.

It's not only a question of what was put into the community but also what was taken out.That hotel complex was the main driver of tourism in nearby Castlebar.Restaurants,pubs,beauty salons,barbers,shops,too many other things to mention are going to suffer and a number of them are going to close ultimately because of this decision.

All local councillors and even TDs aswell as locals were blindsided by this,why would a government department feel this is the way to go about things?This is wrong,there's simply no other argument.

If you think you're not effected by this then think again.This and the knock on effects are coming to everybody's door in the country.

THIS.HAS.TO.STOP.

They rallied around the Ukrainians as they were getting replaced by 100 odd male asylum seekers. Here's the knock on effects of replacing tourists with Ukrainians n asylum seekers, who could'a guessed it?! Literally no one!

Irish Examiner: Loss of more than 3,700 Killarney hotel beds 'decimating' town's bars and cafes.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-40994321.html

You believe the local councillors and TDs did not know about this. That is a bit innocent I think.

Strange. If the councillors are not actually running the council or even informed of policy, who exactly is running the council?

Just post the link, as easy you say it is to find it, I'm failing on that challenge .