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

Carney. I know that there's a few hundred of them already living in Rosses Point at Cregg House, which is another odd one. They aren't a million miles away from town, but there's not much else going on in that part of the world, especially in the off season. At least in that instance they are nearly all Ukrainians, but unless you've transport there's little to do around there, so I'd wonder how long they'd tolerate it. Mullaghmore is the same though, it's a ghost town most of the year, what exactly would they do with their time?

I see the new narrative is "what do you expect when you put a lot of people of different nationalities together? Is this an admission that multiculturalism doesn't work?. Unless the government start giving these people their own houses it will be Ireland fault.

https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/overcrowding-blamed-citywest-refugee-centre-26055164

Overcrowded conditions have been blamed as the reason for brawl breaking out in a refugee centre last night.

Gardai were called out to the Citywest refugee centre last night just after 6.30pm due to two groups of men fighting. Three men were taken to hospital with minor injuries.

No arrests have been reported. Movement of Asylum Seekers Ireland co-founder Lucky Khambule said crowded conditions and a mix of cultures were the reasons for the incident.

Read more: Three hospitalised following public order incident at Citywest accommodation

He told RTE's Morning Ireland: "My understanding from speaking to the people from there is that it started with a group that were throwing bottles to each other. Then the whole thing started and blew up like that.

"And remember, people don't have anything to do there - they are in one space 24/7. Things like this are bound to happen when you put a group of people from all different nationalities together."

Lucky added that people will always come to Ireland even if there is a prospect of homelessness as Integration Minister Roderic O'Gorman has warned. He said: "No, it won't make any difference... people will always come for whatever reason they come to the country.

A very serious incident is only around the corner.

Nobody wants it to happen but things are getting worse and worse and only matter of time now.

Just thinking about what you said about the hotel. Doesn't that show us the exact problem? They can likely make more money running a DP center there than if they sold it, and when incentives like that exist, every man who owns a building as such, will be getting his piece of the pie eventually.

It's a beautiful spot in the summer, full of life, but in the off season it's the complete opposite. Hardly anyone exists there at all, I don't even think the small shop is opened there anymore. They'd have to walk a few miles just to get to the shop in Cliffoney. They'd have to get to Grange just to use a post office or do a big shop. There's clearly not a bit of thinking going on at the minute.

It’s absurd that the government are demanding people apply for planning permission to allow short term lets in private houses while simultaneously and without planning permission, housing people, long term in hotels, offices, schools, sports halls.

And just when you thought the insanity couldn't get any worse...

So it is now official, International Protection applicants who have destroyed their documents will now be sent forth to roam the streets until O'Gorman rings them with acommodation. Can't see any potential issues whatsoever arising from this latest hare-brained plan.

Why doesn't he put a temporary stop on this craziness, just to give us a bit of time and space to try and come up with a plan.

I have a property listed on Airbnb. I have never been contacted asking if I would do an extended stay. I’ve always wondered why.

But certain people kept saying we have loads of space and it's racist to say otherwise. Are our government racist now too? The plot thickens!

Also how can you be in a place of “safety” yet still be seeking “refuge” Refuge from what!!?

Talk about having cake and eating it as well. Joke.

Going on and on about paschels 1300e expenses. Wtf is this shite costing us and its not just financial either.

They won’t be on the street. I’m sure all the open border, diversity grifters will open up their doors to these people… NOT!!

It's sickening all the same. He can do that, and nothing bad will be said about him, he won't be called a Nazi or far right. When the rest of us were making similar suggestions on similar grounds a long time ago, we got every negative label possible attached to us. But like they say, the difference between a "right wing conspiracy" and a reality, is only few months.

Listening to Mike Allen of Focus Ireland on the News at One and he thinks Roderick O'Gorman and his department are 'not' the problem. He reckons poor decisions around overstretched accommodation in the country are being made at cabinet / government level.

He has no issues with refugees btw. He correctly points that the Irish homeless situation and the direct provision system are two completely different subjects and stresses that Focus Ireland's services have not been impacted by there being more asylum seekers in the country in the last year.