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

One can't but conclude there are also other factors, such as who else is in the classroom, at play.

One can certainly conclude that they can cherry pick anecdotes which support there prejudices, in spite of overwhelming evidence which contradicts their claims. Imagine that, parents telling you what you want to hear, essentially admitting that they’re prepared to handicap their children’s education for nothing. Of course they exist, stupid people with ideas about themselves will always exist, but they remain a terribly small minority, much like the small handful of protesters who claim to represent the people of areas like Ballymun and East Wall, etc, populations of thousands of people.

That’s why I prefer to rely on nationally representative data, rather than anecdotal evidence of anything.

But who says that a population of 6m is "too high" for the Republic? I'm not sure I've heard any demographer or economist make such a claim.

The population of Moldova is predicted to drop from 4m to 2m in the next 30 years. No doubt the "Moldova is full" guys are all high fiving each other, but that is clearly going to be an economic and societal calamity for them.

Just imagine the embarrassment if you were involved in Chartered Land and you had to face friends in Ballsbridge after allowing this Hotel to be filled with refugees. Life wouldn't be worth living.

It wouldn’t be worth living, but not for the reasons you think. If Chartered Land had agreed to accommodate refugees in a building which was no longer habitable, their champagne socialist friends would leave them excluded at their own tiny table at the next breakfast meeting (business networking event) in the Clarence 😂

A spokeswoman for Chartered Land said the hotel was no longer habitable.

“The hotel has been vacant for a number of years and is ready for demolition. Considerable works would be required to bring the building back to a habitable standard.”

There had been contact between Chartered Land and the Department of Integration she said, but “given the time needed for such works, the considerable investment required, and the relatively short window of availability it was agreed that the proposition was unviable”.

Mr Lacey said he did not consider this response acceptable.

No, they are a populist party masquerading as a nationalist party.

If SF think a volte face on migration will get them closer to power, then they will do that. It won't though.

SF have been moderating their image for years to make them more acceptable to ABC1 types and those that form opinions. Migration is not high on their agenda.

It's all about housing, because the bottom of the market is so high that it's priced professionals out of the market. It's an issue that has little to do with asylum (which in the grand scheme of things remain small - outside of Ukraine). The greater pressure on housing is actually legal migration from people here to work.

Without inward migration for work the population would likely be falling - with the obvious consequence for housing. Interestingly the next first time buyer cohort coming up next is significantly smaller than the current cohort. Over the next 10 years housing pressure is likely to ease anyway with minimal policy intervention. Unless there is a major shock.

Do you live in ireland or elsewhere?

The far right party got what a few hundred votes out of a few million people.

Boards must be well populated by those few hundred because you use the word far right in nearly every post.

Calling anyone who has a different view point to yours far right does not make someone far right.

No, what makes someone far-right is their politics. And that chap’s politics would definitely place him on the far-right. I can’t think of his name but I recognise the voice, and that’s not a backlash SF are receiving, it’s an idiot trying to get a rise out of a Sinn Fein TD and basically being told straight out, he’s not worth talking to.

That’s how one SF TD handled “the backlash” 😂

So what has that got to do with the price of turkeys.

We can all play the what if game ...

There used to be saying to describe the claptrap you are coming out with to somehow show we should have a much bigger population than we have and thus it is ok to just dump people in the thousands into the country.

People that have no means of supporting themselves and need state services to exist.

They used to say "if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle"

Of course in the modern Western World my aunt could have balls and my mother could be my father.🙄

One thing that comes to mind and is even evident here with some posters.

For some this didn't kick off for a lot of people until the last few months, when Dublin itself started having to take in these "asylum seekers".

It has been happening to a lot of others for a few years now and a lot of people in Dublin didn't give a flying fook, being honest.

Achill, Oughterard, Rooskey, Moville, Ballinamore all much much smaller with far less services than Ballymun, East Wall, Ballyfermot.

And in the middle of nowhere with no proper transport to boot.

It was ok to dump bunches of young men in these towns and villages and when the locals complained they were labeled backwards culchie inbreds.

One could almost have a bit of schadenfreude for our Dublin cousins who thought it was a laugh when the boggers had to house these people.

But now poorer Dubs get to experience what their richer neighbours really think of them.

They are labeled illiterate criminals, backward, dole spongers, etc

Funnily enough if you are from West Africa you are likely to have had a relation in the last century, even less who owned slaves.

I wrote a post already around here actually mentioning population growth, not sure if it was in respond to you?

(Site is so shyte that you can't now search all your old posts to cross check things).

This isn't organic growth of increased birthrate, low emigration, steady immigration of skilled labour to fill labour requirements.

This is madness of just importing people with nothing to support them bar the existing taxpayers.

Yeah yeah they might be able to do manual labour sometime that Irish will not do, but then again manual labour is decreasing due to automation and will drastically drop in recessionary times.

Looney land economics.

Looney land social experimentation that has failed everywhere else.

It's your Adam Smith vision that people disagree with. We thought your views were left behind in the Galway Tent at 4am after and a gram of Coke.

The most frightening aspect of this current mess is the actual realization that the politicians that we handsomely pay much money for supposedly "leading the state" are not in any sort of control whatsoever, either that or they are stuck in the realms of idiocy that a high infants student would be be scolded for. They are not in control, you can't tell me that the current leaders who are in control of the state and its current lack of decent infrastructure, who know what is actually going on, think its a good idea to import another limitless amount of people into this defunct infrastructure situation. Somebody somewhere should have the basic cop on to scream "stop" but they don't, or won't. Nobody is that stupid, hence they have no control over what is going on. Which begs the question, if none of them have any control, then what are we paying them for? Seriously