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

I hate to break it to Mike Allen but O'Gorman is fully responsible for this absolute sh1teshow.

He's now put out a tweet asking those in safe countries not to come. What the hell were we doing taking people in from safe countries when we barely have room for genuine Ukrainian refugees!

I think it's pretty clear at this stage that Roddy is out of his depth and someone with a bit of common sense needs to take over his position. Although finding common sense in any of the ruling parties might be too big of an ask.

O'Gorman is not directly responsible for immigration or the numbers entering the country - his remit is to manage the Direct Provision system and also accommodation for the Ukrainian people.

Mike Allen thinks it's the Cabinet who are messing up with their lack of forward planning around accommodation.

It was O'Gorman who sent out the multi language messages about coming here, it was him to who announced the end of DP, and the new system which would literally get them housing in months, which they'd have a right to for years. Why oh why are you just repeating what someone said, instead of looking at the realities and making a judgment based on that? The state in general is completely to blame, but he's playing a very important role in that too.

The government basically telling single men to not bother coming here. Disappointing far right policy.

We're not far-right , we've just been right so far

It is completely out of hand.

Now a majority of Ukrainians are stating in advance they have no intention of going home. Who saw that coming? Everyone.

Add in the neverending arrival of more people, and where are we going?

If it stopped tomorrow, how long would it take to alleviate the housing crisis and every other bit of infrastructure creaking at the seams? A decade, just to catch up to the regular crisis levels? And this is without a recession or economic correction?

And all the while it is to be paid for by Irish people, while their own quality of life largely goes down the river?

This has been the game of the housing crisis since way before any war in Ukraine. A post earlier showing millions of psn numbers handed out to foreign nationals since 2002. The sheer ignorance required to disconnect the housing crisis and all the easily found and checked governmental data is untold.

A monster is looming over this country, a monster that was created through pure greed. How it manifests is anybodys guess. But something is going to break, some fundamental, society bearing thing is going to shatter into pieces and anything could be on the cards.

You mention Freedom Party and young professionals with degrees in Politics and Philosophy out of Trinity and UCD who are in PR.

I would say these are the exact people we need nowhere near power.

Our academic institutions are turning out the same no cop on graduates as the US and UK at the moment.

Maybe if they were of the Jordan Peterson mould, but most are often just eejits parrotting the same shyte as vested NGOs.

Besides the party doesn't even mention immigration or border control anywhere on it's front page.

It is tied in with EU exit.

FFS are they fooking muppets, Brexit shoudl be salutory lesson on that.

Anyway it is boloxology to believe that we have no control and it is all the fault of EU.

Hungary prove that.

Garrett was the exact reason I started voting for FG, he was socially light years ahead of FF.

Then again he did have Alice Glenn in the ranks.

We can't rely on FG, they are now infested with half wits like McEntee, Harris and Leo himself who are more interested in media likes than normal people.

I have wondered if a reworked Veritas with toned down religious and EU rhetoric might work.

There are votes there to be had.

One thing that is needed is a couple of figureheads, ones in particular hat wouldn't give a flying fook about their media standing.

Any new centre right party needs to have it's own media presense because what passes for Irish media (print, radio, tv) is now only interested in selling the place out, literally selling it out.

Roderick O'Gorman is a member of this Cabinet. Is he afraid to say anything at Cabinet meetings or what?

Doctors and engineers, lots of doctors and engineers.

They will help pay your pension don't you know.

The political class have a love of promising great things with taxpayer's money. Between it ending up with the pals in mysterious ways and the bottomless pit and disaster which is the Bertie Monster aka the HSE, there is either not the money or the wit for decent delivery. In fact the incompetence of the government is making people struggling with putting or getting a roof over their head angry at people (like UA refugees) who have a reason to be here. Roderick O'Gorman is patently not up to his role, altho that could be said for most of them.

Actually I've never seen a weaker generation of politicians in my lifetime....not one of them have an ounce of principle, that is saying something given our political history. I've never seen a more incompetent Cabinet!!!

I mean the leader of the Green party, the Minster for the Environment...said recently that gay people and women will be more adversely affected by Climate Change. Think about how stupid that is, does he think he is in a room full of Gender studies students...no one is swallowing that garbage!!!

We have sanitary products installed in the men's bathrooms in Leinster house.

We have the worst housing crisis in our history (that has been gathering steam for at least a decade) and no means to alleviate it!!

A health system on the brink of collapse!

Who voted for all of this??

Drivetime covering the Refugee situation.. Missed the start, caught the last interview with a male, said he arrived yesterday from the UK through Belfast, he's very disappointed as he doesn't like the cold and he has no accommodation provided, when he ended the conversation he said he had been living in the UK for a while and he CHOSE Ireland because of the economy... The usual emoting from the interviewer and O Hadhra, for frigging heavens sake journalists I know it doesn't effect ye cos yere well insulated from it, but it sure as hell effects a lot of us, do yere job, ask a few questions maybe, it's maddening, enough of this nonsense... But but look over there a few thousand euro to put up a few posters terrible, terrible entirely

You mention Freedom Party and young professionals with degrees in Politics and Philosophy out of Trinity and UCD who are in PR.

I would say these are the exact people we need nowhere near power.

Our academic institutions are turning out the same no cop on graduates as the US and UK at the moment.

Maybe if they were of the Jordan Peterson mould, but most are often just eejits parrotting the same shyte as vested NGOs.

Besides the party doesn't even mention immigration or border control anywhere on it's front page.

It is tied in with EU exit.

They would be members of the - hard to believe it exists - conservative element in the Universities. In Trinity it would be centred around The Burkean.

Their views would be similar to what is being said here. Nothing flaky.

But the fact that you haven't heard about them shows how underwhleming their efforts so far have been.

Now that their time is here, no one knows about them. By the time they get themselves out there (if they get themselves out there) more mainstream and professional parties will have adopted some version of the message for electoral profit.

Do not sully the name of Alice Glenn!