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

Does anyone know what the length of time is for asylum seekers from initial arrival to having a decision rendered? My guess is that it is years when it should be months.

Im only asking because The legal system here is a joke and maybe making faster decisions (be they leave to stay or a decision to repatriate) would help to alleviate the backlog of applicants and associated accommodation pressure.

Do we need to have a dedicated court established to process applications or additional dates ? Do we need additional legal resources to represent asylum seekers?.

Well done for managing to get through that. Whenever I see another wall of text and references from that poster I just scroll past.

So long as they get the most views and clicks for refugee center articles they will keep reporting them, albeit with their usual selective reporting of details and comments closed

The State is currently breaking international law.

This international obligation is a load of rubbish, we can say sorry, we can't take any more, same as Denmark. However our government choose not to. Does this human rights commissioner feel we should be able to house anyone who arrives in?

Will some journalist ever quote the Lisbon treaty to O Gorman, Varadkar, Coveney etc the next time they talk about our international obligations.

Ireland's role

Ireland currently has no European Union obligation to take in refugees as it has an opt-in or opt-out clause on individual proposals in the areas of freedom, security and justice through the EU Treaty of Lisbon.

However, Ireland has chosen to participate in EU relocation and resettlement schemes and established the Irish Refugee Protection Programme (IRPP) as part of its response to the 2015-16 migrant crisis.

According to some NGO.

The State can hardly criticise the protesters now.

It is all going to end in tears unfortunately.

If Ireland has capacity can you please share the knowledge of where this exists with the rest of us.

You might also let the Government know too while you are at it.

Please explain how it is not. 62,000+ refugees, people that require emergency housing, children that need educating and provide healthcare to them has nothing to do with them? Ukrainian Embassy warned it's citizens coming here back in Oct 2022 that they might not get free accommodation on arrival. It's not a secret that Ireland was having issues before the influx. As for health, Ukrainian's have a lower uptake on vaccines, 20% not vaccinated against Measles. Between 2017 and 2020 40 children died from Measles there. 13 - 20% are not vaccinated against Polio, a disease that can leave people crippled and kill. In 2021, an outbreak of vaccine-associated paralytic poliovirus type 2 was confirmed in the Ukraine. They have some series disease epidemics, 4th highest rate of TB, 2020 2nd highest rate of HIV diagnosis rate in the WHO European Region. These numbers are from the Lancet and the Irish Medical Times.

Gov policy is not helping but providing for 62,000+ extra people is not leaving much in the pot to sort out our existing issues including helping our citizens pay their electricity, gas bills and help keep their heads above the water, it cannot be sustained.

Greater Manchester has the infrastructure for said population. You cant just look at land mass and population and say "sure we have loads of room" Rural Ireland has essentially no public transport, We have less hospital beds than we did in 1996. Lobbing 100,000 new people all at once creates chaos in this instance. I dont care where the people are coming from, if 100,000 of the Irish diaspora returned home all at once we would have the exact same chaos.

If 'Ireland is full', it would be no bad thing if half a million Irish people emigrated tomorrow morning - to free up pressure on housing, services and infrastructure, correct?

This despite the fact that depopulation always had a quite disastrous effect on the country and was nearly always accompanied by deep recession. One major problem with this is that the people most likely to leave are young, healthy, well educated tax payers (and that goes for most of our migrant worker population too).

We could easily fit 20 million people into this country if they could go without running water,electricity,houses education,healthcare and transport.

My mother had a neighbor lookijhng down the noses of everyone who didnt take in refugees.

She even called to my mothers door when we were in the house asking her would she apply to take a refugee.

I went out and said to my mother that she shouldnt because it will go on for a long time and any decision she makes she needs to think long and hard about an exit strategy should it go on too long. The woman at the door wasnt happy.

Anyway my mother didnt take anyone in. 2 people on the road did, including the woman who called to the door, fair play to them, but last i heard their daughter was telling my neice who she is friends with that they are at the end of their tether and it is causing rows in the house and they cant find anywhere else for the people in their house to go now. She said she doesnt know when life will be back to normal.

This is what happens when there is no exit strategy to these things.

I had a relative and his wife live in my house for nearly a year while they looked for somewhere else to live. It was supposed to be for a few days. We used to get on before that. We had to move house to get rid of them :) They and some of the family havent spoken to any of us since, because we are the bad guys for kicking them out on to the street. Having someone live in your family space is never going to be easy and if it goes on longer than a week or two it leads to bad things.