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

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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,130 ✭✭✭lmao10


    I laughed. lol. Nice one. I presume he'd be totally for asylum on the basis of being persecuted for being gay. I'm sure he also voted in favour of gay marriage and cares so deeply about gay rights.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,979 ✭✭✭Gen.Zhukov


    Poll on 'Do you believe the Govt is handling the refugee/asylum seeker situation well?' (paraphrased) on 'Tonight' on VM1


    Yes 10%

    No 90%



  • Registered Users Posts: 8,913 ✭✭✭Danno


    Simply put, asylum seekers with a genuine case or economic migrants generally tend to have **** all money.

    I'd disagree with the last part of your statement that I've highlighted. To get into the EU one needs a fair wad of cash to make the journey and any additional flights too.

    By not stopping this influx of people we're encouraging a drain of the middle classes (by their standards) in poorer nations. It's a brain drain that serves to leave those nations with less resources to make their way out of poverty.

    We've first hand experience of this in Ireland with many missing generations gone in the 60s, 70s and 80s and again in the 2008-2014 era.

    Why is this not being stopped? It is of no benefit to Ireland or much of the EU to have an influx of low-skilled migrants, many of whom's culture have stark contrasts to our own.

    It's not going to end well.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,502 ✭✭✭Sweetemotion


    The 10% yes, is from the NGO's. Taking money from the 90% saying no.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,147 ✭✭✭TonyMaloney


    Danno, of course it costs money to get here. But the idea that asylum seekers typically have enough money to pay for western health care out their own pocket when they arrive is of course completely bonkers.

    As to why it's not being stopped - it can't be stopped unless a nation is prepared to be spectacularly cruel to people in desperate need.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 265 ✭✭high_tower


    I am in favour of both.

    you still don’t get it do you. I’m not far right. I want Ireland to stay a liberal country - and letting in tens of thousands of young men , unvetted because they destroyed their own passports , from counties that have totally opposite views to ours - is a recipe for disaster !



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,147 ✭✭✭TonyMaloney


    Yes!

    We must maintain our liberal society by excluding all people whose views do not perfectly align with ours.



  • Registered Users Posts: 265 ✭✭high_tower


    You’ve still not answered my question.

    how are women and the gay community treated in the countries that raised them. Let’s say Algeria and Somalia.


    come on answer the question. You’ve dodged it now for hours. Answer it.

    do you not think those views are important?



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,147 ✭✭✭TonyMaloney


    Look I'm no expert on either country, but I wouldn't judge an individual on the basis of the laws of the country they are trying to escape from.

    You're again saying something incredibly racist. That these individuals are fundamentally incompatible with us and our society.

    It's a load of bollocks. Perhaps you don't consider yourself to be far right, but in every post in this thread you've said something racist.

    I have zero problem with people from Algeria or Somalia coming to live in Ireland. Except of course that they would have to integrate and live alongside people like you who think they are fundamentally incompatible with us.

    It's just a really **** horrible point of view that you insist on sharing again and again



  • Registered Users Posts: 23,919 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack



    It would’ve been 10 viewers out of 10 only for the last lad - hand slipped on the phone while he was pulling’ d’skeleton out of himself same time as he watching d’telly 😒



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  • Registered Users Posts: 15,182 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes



    I'm going to say something REALLY politically incorrect there. But hey if others can be incorrect so can I. I'm sorry but it needs to be said.

    You can't put a group of refugees in affluent areas. This is what the general public fails to understand.


    Affluent areas do not have state schools or govt buildings to put them. They have private schools. They don't have community centres. They don't have social workers. They don't have doctors that take medical cards. Rich people don't USE this stuff.


    Guess where the infrastructure for those things IS??? Less affluent areas.


    Guess whose taxes pay for those services in those less affluent areas? People in Dalkey etc etc.


    Do you think there are many social workers in Dalkey?? Many state schools?


    It's a politically incorrect thing to say. But it's the truth.


    One refugee needs like 3 social workers. Little D4 darling goes to three private therapists. I'm not judging either party. But I'm just telling you the truth.


    Neither half knows how the other half lives.



    And by the way people who use the argument against refugees in their area...that is EXACTLY the same argument people in affluent areas use against having social housing in their area for people from housing estates etc. People from council estates cause more crime etc etc we won't be safe. Bleh bleh. (im not saying it's right but im saying i hear it)


    'You are fashioning the rods for your own backs.' Is a saying that comes to mind.


    No one thinks the people of Fox Rock are LESS racist. Don't be silly. But you really think Fox Rock has govt facilities to deal with it? How many state schools does dalkey have? Lots of local aldis around where people with not much money can shop???


    How could a refugee afford to live in Fox Rock even with provided accommodation?? I couldn't afford that!



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,620 ✭✭✭maninasia


    What happens when somebody tries to put 1.2 litres of water in a 1.0 litre bottle?


    Answers on a postcard please!!!

    (and ffs get your geography up to speed Finland and Norway are massive compared to Ireland)


    No amount of WISHFUL THINKING CHANGES ANY FACT.



  • Registered Users Posts: 728 ✭✭✭20Wheel


    Islam does plenty of integration.

    ... just in the opposite direction.

    Putin is a dictator. Putin should face justice at the Hague. All good Russians should work to depose Putin. Russias war in Ukraine is illegal and morally wrong.



  • Registered Users Posts: 728 ✭✭✭20Wheel


    Not that youre wrong.

    But, isnt it just spectacular how without fail theres always a perfectly good reason for anything good going to the same places, and anything considered undesirable staying well away.

    Its like magic.

    Putin is a dictator. Putin should face justice at the Hague. All good Russians should work to depose Putin. Russias war in Ukraine is illegal and morally wrong.



  • Registered Users Posts: 15,182 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    I'm not sure what you mean.


    Do I think a lot of things are unfair in the city ? Yes without question.


    Do I think people in Fox Rock have any idea of what Ballymun as a community has been through in the last 10 yrs? No. Not even the most enlightened leftist perhaps they even know the least.


    The whole idea of putting social housing into private areas was to STOP these types of imbalances. But then you get people objecting because the council is building 250k apartments in the same building where there are 650k apartments etc. Because why should yer man get a free apartment bleh bleh. And it's like dude work it out.


    Then you get people who live in council houses now convinced they are MAGA. And are going to protest the refugees along with the National Party. A party that wants to get rid of ALL state socialism. You can't be a far right conservative and live in a council house. If you keep going down that path you will end up homeless!


    And you get the person saying OH i can't get this because refugees are taking up all our resources ..well you could say that about ANYONE ...the homeless take up all our resources etc etc the state schools take up all our resources people on the dole take up all our resources the pensioners take up all our resources it never ends if you go down that route.


    We all take up air.



  • Registered Users Posts: 15,182 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    A lack of people in the country can also contribute to a housing crisis. There are LOTS of reasons why this has happened not just one.


    We cant get construction workers back ..guess why? They can't afford to live here! 😐️


    There is such an imbalance between the cost of building some normal apartments than the income and borrowing ability of most first time buyers that in reality most houses are not and CANNOT be built with the end goal of being available to first time buyers.


    We may have smaller populations per sq meter but the truth is we have stronger demographics. We have a bigger YOUNGER population and people are still having more kids than they would in lets say Sweden or Norway etc.


    When you can't even house construction workers and their families to be able to BUILD the houses you know you have messed up!


    Then more recently BREXIT caused a lot of supply chain delays in the building industry and A LOT MORE COST. And even if we switch up our supply chains to the continent it will still cost more to ship.


    There has been an 18-25 % rise in construction costs recently. It's huge issue. We need cheaper and more efficient supply chains.


    The govt never tried to keep construction workers here after the industry was decimated in 2008 builders were told to go do degrees in IT etc or immigrate. So they did. And they haven't come back. Most who are training now also want to leave. So the labour costs have risen. Also people tend to think of workers as bots that show up at 9 in the morning and only exist for the hours they work. But they also need housing.


    We have an issue were the costs of a lot of housing makes them unavailable to first time buyers. The govt needs to find ways around this. Cheaper supply chains don't seem to be mentioned as a plan not sure why.


    Planning permission and corruption. Its FAR too easy to object to planning these days. You get two diff authorities suing each other. And notorious corruption.


    Short term lets are much more profitable ...you can earn in ten days what you can in one month with AIR B nB etc etc. There is not much point in using a hotel because they are still more expensive usually that the AIR BnBs.


    I'm not sure why but the govt has been very strict with spending and most authorities and the national budget has a surplus. A huge one. They will SAY this is because they are being prudent. But it's more than that. The truth is the civil service doesn't even have the capacity right now to spend it. Yes some needs to be put by sure but 5 billion is a bit much. They say its all from the multi nationals and they are worried it won't always be there but they have always known that about multi nationals.


    While yes there is a shortage of houses there are still more houses than people think but they are not being used in the way the public and in partic first time buyers need.


    Rather than the post boiling over Irish people immigrate. And so things never change.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,496 ✭✭✭Luxembourgo


    I agree just like people and media who imply they are all vulnerable



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,496 ✭✭✭Luxembourgo


    Ill probably get abuse for this, but the opening of Croke Park for EID on a more seemingly annual basis, and the wall to wall positive portrayal, annoys me to no end. This isn't people adapting, it's a country bending over backwards

    It's a back wards sexist horrible religion I want nothing to do with.(Without impinging on religious freedom)

    And yes many of these could also be put to Catholicism, but we talk about those problems, and criticise.



  • Registered Users Posts: 368 ✭✭slay55


    When will the more affluent areas of Dublin be helping and providing residential facilities for these lot ?



  • Registered Users Posts: 7,433 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    The problem with the Celtic tiger property boom and subsequent crash was the construction workers were basically building houses for themselves, that’s where the situation ended up until it became unsustainable.

    We had huge numbers of foreign construction workers just coming getting mortgages at a whim and non stop building.

    When things went bust they lost their jobs and couldn’t pay back the loans.


    More construction workers led to a crazy building boom which spiralled out of control with mad borrowing and lending.

    That’s why it’s so much harder to get a mortgage now, we are still scarred from the recession.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,441 ✭✭✭batman_oh


    Have a look at Sweden, is the lack of integration due to racist white people or maybe the fact that there are certain cultures that have no desire to integrate beyond working arrangements/some minor social interactions and have no interest in the fantasy 'everybody becomes western liberals' multicultural dream.

    Nah, as with everything is the racist white right wing fascists that are at fault for the lack of integration.



  • Registered Users Posts: 41,072 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    You dont really care though about the women and LGBT asylum seekers and refugees so your concern is completely insincere

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • Registered Users Posts: 15,182 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    That has got to be the most misinformed post I have ever read on here and I have read a lot.



  • Registered Users Posts: 9,403 ✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    The Travelodge in Ballymun had been providing emergency accommodation for 5 years now. What changed to spark the protests? The ignorant protests I might add.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



  • Registered Users Posts: 8,860 ✭✭✭Backstreet Moyes


    Protests are only going to get bigger as more people realise what is going on.

    These are young males being thrown into unsuitable accommodation, no job prospects and barely any English.

    Then you factor in they are from countries with backwards thoughts towards women.

    Then you factor in the crime levels they have in other countries and especially sexual assaults towards women.

    Then you factor in they are turning up with no documentation which makes it highly likely they are hiding something and more likely a criminal.

    We have seen what has happened in other countries and should be able to be proactive.

    But we will wait until innocent people are harmed before anyone starts talking about the subject.

    A right wing irish party is a certainty and the people voting for them will want an end to this madness they are not lunatics.

    We are dumping groups of men with backward views towards women into towns.

    I can totally understand why any normal Joe soap would want to protest against it.

    What I can't understand is the people who are defending this policy, I would like to know why they are in favor of this.



  • Registered Users Posts: 265 ✭✭high_tower


    Ah yea we got there in the end. You know f all about either county who’s citizens are flooding in.

    and yes a counties culture does have a massive impact on those who grew up there’s attitudes. These won’t be educated class moving over here with a brain where they can think for themselves either.

    no more need for further discussion with you.



  • Registered Users Posts: 15,182 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes



    Here is the thing people in Morocco speak 4 languages usually at least french spanish standardarabic darija and amazigh...they also learn english in school.


    The idea that Algeria / Morocco etc are homogenous countries is a false one. They have berbers arabs Sahrawis and Europeans left from colonialism mostly of spanish parentage etc


    Same with Nigeria Nigeria has like 400 hundred languages. There are like ..300 ethnic groups in nigeria. Yoruba igbo etc ! so many more.


    Half of Nigeria is christian and half is muslim roughly.


    These people are ALREADY multicultural.


    But they are living generally under repressive govts. You know like the putin chap.



  • Registered Users Posts: 9,403 ✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,441 ✭✭✭batman_oh


    Algeria and Somalia aren't the same as Morocco though - Morocco has been a centre of trade for centuries. I was just stating that sometimes it not always the far right bogeyman at fault for the lack of integration. If you want to blame the host county, blame the terrible government policies of dumping hundreds of males into areas with nothing to do as this is clearly more of an issue.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 15,182 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Algeria is even more diverse. I know I dated a guy from there. They usually speak 3 languages Berber Arabic and french (they learn english too) and they have 18 diff ethnicities. Also i would say the people are more liberal than morocco.


    Again somalia many languages three main Beja, Oromo, and Somali...4 ethnicities



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