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

These guys on the marches with 200 people every night know they are a tiny minority in the country. They don't give a hoot about democracy or the will of the people and wouldn't even accept the result of any immigration referendum that went against them - even if it was an 80%-20% result.

Local elections are May/June next year.

Getting sick and tired of RTE radio searching these young men arriving here every day and interviewing them trying to get a big sob story out of them about coming here and having nowhere to stay.

These guys can barely speak a word of English yet come here expecting everything to be handed to them, they are economic migrants with little or no education and have nothing of value to offer Irish society.

Going by O Gormans tweet last night the accommodation issue must be at breaking point now.

Most do want to work, send money back and ultimately bring their families here. Laudable and perfectly understandable. It means though that they are economic migrants, not refugees. The problem is that when you come through the back door that is the asylum process, you skip all the skills and other checks and basically just get let in. You don't have to have any proof of being able to support yourself - the cost of which is then passed to the State. Ultimately it undermines the legal, proper, controlled system.

If we have a shortage of people of a particular skill set, I have no objection to them coming here to work provided they support themselves. Even low skilled work. It's not about race.

I do object to people lying and abusing a system intended to protect those fleeing persecution just to get around our immigration laws. They take resources from those that actually need it.

LOL!!! They are getting absolutely desperate when they roll out their favourite (howzit goin') academic to tell us we're all racist. You just know that Fintan is also toiling away on a new piece to help learn us not to be so racist. I wonder does the ever so photogenic Ger "from Crumlin" have a brother in Ballymun or Darndale who'll pose for a photo for Fintan's upcoming article ;-)

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/02/03/the-racism-that-has-always-lurked-within-the-irish-has-been-exposed/

The issue is there’s no mechanism to correctly identify a refugee, secondly no clear method for processing illegal migrants.

People only festered in DP because they were appealing their judgement. Every now and again you'd have some hard luck story of being stuck in DP for 5, 7 years. What was never ever said was that was because their application had failed and they were engaging in rounds of appeals and reviews in order to get the system to give up.

And if you were in it long enough, the State did indeed give up with most then offered indefinite leave to remain.

I’d like to ensure major decisions that have a large impact taken out of politicians hands and offered to the public. The public decides what we want information easily captured through the revenue portal as one option.

Location of children’s hospital.

method by which we can support displaced Ukrainians

methods for processing illegal immigrants.

the current mode is a lot of head scratching and time and money wasting in a catastrophic way.

metro north and a raft of other pie in the sky projects

We have something like this people’s assembly not sure what it delivers.

The role of the government is to ensure the will of the people is reflected in the outcomes delivered.

it would be all inclusive for people living here.

outcomes which have constitutional impact will then be subject to a referendum. Such a system might help create a level of engagement and could have possibly prevented something like Brexit as an example which largely happened because the cohort most affected were most disengaged.

Funnily enough that was near enough the result the last time we had a referendum related to immigration, when we closed the anchor baby loophole.

That's why there won't be a referendum, the pro mass immigration crowd know it would be another huge landslide.