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

Playback on RTE Radio 1 this morning is quite damning about the protests outside asylum seeker accommodation. Good balanced summary of the week.

An incredibly flawed argument for unskilled immigration

Ahh that old nugget the lazy immigrant who somehow is also responsible for taking everyone's jobs

Unskilled workers still pay taxes. Our worker to retiree ratio is projected to fall from 4:1 currently to 2:1 by 2040, we cannot affored to pay state pensions as they are currently set with that ratio and its too late to start having kids to fix the gap so without immigration you tell me how we fix the gap of workers vs retirees?

Honestly as usual I regret joining the thread filled with racist ignorant bigots, ill just put it back on ignore and let you all self masturbate yourselves into a frenzy of pathetic hatred for people who dont look like you.

He was probably just trying to sneak in another Mean Girls reference

Anyway if they are needed they ought to be able to come in on regular visas like everyone else. Like I did. I went abroad having to submit criminal background check and authenticated documents.

International protection is supposed to be a different category.

Paint by numbers thinking... about as flawed and naive as it's possible to be on this issue.

Communities are FAR more than just their birthrate and age of their workforce. It's short term thinking and greed like this, that will turn Ireland into a carbon copy of every other nation that has been systematically ruined by mass uncontrolled immigration! I feel sorry for the pensioners who are forced to live in the hell-scape that many of you would willingly create apparently for their benefit.

How would you say Russia is faring with zero immigration? This should be a model society full of happy people - and yet we know huge swathes of the population are living in abject poverty and life expectancy is 71. Also predicted that their population will drop by 20m in the next 25 years and their living standards will progressively become even worse.

Russia does not have “zero immigration”. It has the 4th highest foreign born population according to the UN.

Mostly from within the former Soviet Union - they (the USSR) had a population of nearly 290m just over 30 years ago. Vast majority of these would be native Russian speakers and many would consider themselves ethnic Russians.

I would disagree on the West Indies, Algeria, Congo comparisons. Most immigrants to Russia would be native Russian speakers, the overwhelming majority white and many would have Russian surnames and ancestry. It's not at all an example of a "multi-cultural" society, much more a mono-cultural one.

On the whole issue of multiculturalism, I'm not sure I can see any examples of mono-cultural societies in the modern Western world. Iceland was that way for a very long time, but even they now have an immigrant population of 15%.

Actually unskilled workers pay little enough in taxes compared to other countries and are more likely to need state support to hap, housing, health, benefits etc.

What happens when the new immigrants get older? It sounds like you are describing a very very poor pyramid scheme

Face it. You misunderstand multiculturalism and reveal your prejudices by misunderstanding that countries with only white people can be multicultural.

It is nothing to be embarrassed about. I have misunderstood many things myself.

To get the ball rolling, the most useful thing I can tell people is the thing people really don't want to hear: the protests - the successful and well supported ones - are genuine grassroots phenomena.

If you want to tackle these protests you need to stomach that unpalatable (from your point of view) fact.

The classism from those disparaging the protests has been glaring, everything from employment status, level of education, criminality, how they dress and most telling of all, easily swayed by the "far right". Seems to be a consensus that no one in a working class community is capable of independent thought. no such comments made when similar protests were held in Fermoy.

Its a weird psychology that one could hold such high aspirations for migrants (even when nefarious behaviour such as destroying ID/concealing identity is shown) whilst considering their fellow citizens as feeble minded unemployed criminals.