Ireland running out of accommodation for Ukrainian refugees due to surge in non-Ukrainian refugees?

'In 2020 Gardai logged 5757 incidents under the Mental Health Act (Up 941 from 2019)'

Where's the source on it being up from 941?

I admire your honesty but you appear to be arguing that Ireland shouldn't accept any refugees or asylum seekers into the country at all, whether 'legal', 'illegal' or anything else.

"Unvetted males" - Its such a really simple far right fearmongering tool.

They’re not though, and joining any local authority housing list isn’t having any real impact on either the property or rental markets.

It’s impossible to match up applications for international protection in the years they applied with the numbers of applicants granted refugee status in any given year, but between 2019 and 2021, the numbers of applicants granted refugee status or leave to remain, vs applicants denied, was about 50/50 -

https://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2022-02-08a.1539&s=%22international+protection%22+applications#g1541.r

https://asylumineurope.org/reports/country/republic-ireland/statistics/#_ftn3

The Department of Justice has a specific team who work in collaboration with DePaul Ireland, the Jesuit Refugee Service, the Peter McVerry Trust, officials in the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, and the City and County Managers Association to collectively support residents with status or permission to remain to access housing options. By the end of 2019, a total of 732 people transitioned out of accommodation centres, of which 500 did with the assistance of the services and support mentioned above. Figures for 2020 and 2021 were not available at the time of updating.

In April 2019 the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government released a document titled: Social Housing and HAP Supports Available to Assist Households In Direct Provision Who Have Been Granted “Leave To Remain” And Are Eligible For Social Housing. The paper confirms that people leaving Direct Provision are entitled to ‘Homeless Housing Assistance Payment’ which gives additional supports such as access to a deposit, advance rent and a discretionary 20% addition to the existing HAP rent. The Department also released, in partnership with the City and County Managers Association and IPAS, a document titled ‘Information paper on supporting people with status/leave to remain’ which contained information on how people will receive assistance to leave Direct Provision.

https://asylumineurope.org/reports/country/republic-ireland/content-international-protection/housing/

From the provided

Subtracting the total amount of incidents (4816) in 2019, from the total amount in 2020 (5757), gives us an increase of 941 in the 12-month period.

There are not enough houses in this country because there are not enough people available to do the work, they are more people coming to this country but not enough houses for them, Why the government can't make terms and conditions that if you are healthy you can get the social welfare but we send you to building sites to help, either to do unskilled job or to assist a carpenter or a plumber or do whatever you can do, or the building companies will train you to do some job?.

That’s a bit like what Qatar did with the World Cup. All that will achieve is a spike in workplace accidents and a decrease in building quality.

100% Meaningless argument.

Great post but to be fair most of those problems would exist whether Putin had invaded Ukraine or not. Successive FF and FG governments are to blame of the state of our health and housing crisis. Most people voted for the corrupt power swap over the last few decades.

I am sure FFG love to be able to blame the war for our dysfunction. They even let the Greens take the flak for it by somehow putting the Minister for Children in charge of the Ukrainian refugee response.