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

I'm simply suggesting that the worst decades in our economic history (1950s, 1980s for example) always seemed to correspond with very low population growth, mass emigration and zero immigration - two lost decades.

Our government accommodated 63,000 non EU or UK nationals last year, and only half of them were Ukrainians (CSO figures). No wonder why there is so much pressure on accommodation. We can't build quickly enough for these figures.

https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-pme/populationandmigrationestimatesapril2022/keyfindings/#:~:text=The%20number%20of%20immigrants%2C%20or,period%20is%20estimated%20at%2059%2C600.

Hundreds of men arriving every day to Citywest that was set up for Ukrainian women and children.

It's carnage out there

Jaysus you come out with some awful shyte.

If you were to add 5 mouths to feed to your household would that make it more prosperous or less?

Ever hear the old saying about "putting the cart before the horse" ?

No wonder we are fooked when above is the level of logic that supports this lunacy that the government have bought into.

And now there is now even less accommodation for Ukrainians.

No problem with legit refugees from Ukraine, women and children yes should be given priority over other 'refugees' whos origins are unknown or not disclosed. The 6 counties executive claims to have settled 1600 Ukrainians in hostels/emergency housing and Belfast being the main town I haven't seen a single Ukrainian, not that I would know a Ukrainian from a Lithuanian but I'll wager they sure as hell aren't of a certain dark complexion or wear bukrahs. The other side of the wall won't take in any refugees or economic migrants no matter how legit they are.

Liberals falling over one another to house people of unknown origin in areas where they don't live (PBP/SDLP/SF) meanwhile in the slums where they wouldn't piss with next to no public spending for upgrading heres another 20 'refugees' deal with it

The masses who didn't give a damn several years ago when the government essentially told the people of Lisdoonvarna to like it or lump it after a resounding vote against a DP center, are the real guilty ones. This was the state telling the people that their voices didn't matter in the clearest way possible, yet no one really cared. I'm sure half of the posters on this thread didn't care at the time either, yet now they are fighting back when it's way too late. I suppose this is the curse of society, a minority seeing what's coming and get mocked for it, only for the rest to catch on when the damage is done.

Yep. I live in the catchment area of one of the first DP centres, now over twenty years old. There is no end to the inward flow of people and the profound and permanent changes they bring. That's a diplomatic way of putting it.

It's a wonder why the deeply compassionate and caring middle class types, who often have more wealth than the rest of us, aren't opening their hearts and their homes to the people that they are supposedly welcoming. They tell us all the time about how "vulnerable" these "refugees" are, so why not step in and save them from the great evil that is Direct Provision? "You don't have a right to vet who lives around you" is another one, so they should have no issue taking in some random Albanian lads into their homes. They present it all as risk-less, a benefit to us all, so why not live by their supposed values, and show us that it's all rosy by living with the people that they claim to support.

Thankfully the yanks already showed us how they'd react if they were lumped with even a few of them. They did their whole "we're caring people" act for the world for a day, then got rid of them all a few days later.

Very much in keeping with the OP - Rodders was on NT with Gav Reilly today at 12pm. Asked about the numbers he said there are currently 350 IPASA's and 120 Ukrainians arriving every week, almost 3 times the amount of IPASA's v the UA's

So staying with the IPASA's for the mo - The IT did an article a few months back where it stated that 40% of those IPASA's had no documentation when presenting at immigration control. Assuming that % has not changed it means that out of the 1400 pm arriving, 560 will have had a little accident with their docs. For the remainder of the year (at this current rate) we will have 15,400 more IPASA's of which 6,160 will be complete chancers. And Rodders just stands there...'But sure what can we do?' - Hardly surprising a Ukrainian finds it a bit tricky to get a bed.

This is complete insanity!

RTE had a girl called Tamar on the news the other night. She came here from Georgia with her daughter a year ago and we have been putting her up in the Red Cow hotel for the last year. She was basically bitching about being moved to the disused church set up.

Tubridy had a woman on the show (a few months back) from South Africa. Apparently she was being slapped about a bit by the hubby. What does she do? Yes you guessed it, she did what every other person in the world would do - hopped on a plane and travelled the 10,000 kms to get to Ireland because the continent of Africa (being 30 million square kilometres) was just too small.

♫ ♪ ♬ ♩...Hooooouse the wooooorld...

let them know we're soft as fook ...♫ ♪ ♬ ♩

methinks this is about to get very interesting since I know for a fact of one hotel in South of the country that’s pulling out of housing Ukraine refugees due to the government not paying for the past 6 months.I’m certain this ain’t the only hotel not paid but will be kept quiet

Have you ever been to Northern Ireland?