Time for a zero refugee policy? - *Read OP for mod warnings and threadbans - updated 11/5/24*

Prediction - One of the main steam parties is going to make start making some insincere sound bites/ lip service about controlling immigration.

Don't fall for it. They don't deserve a second chance at this stage. Punish them with a vote for Irish freedom party or alternatively Irish national party.

In famine time, there were multiple families living in one house, grandparents, aunts, uncles, parents, 10 kids and more kid cousins. For those 8 million people, less than 1 million homes would suffice. The country was piss poor, no jobs, there was no welfare, no healthcare, no free education, etc. I dont think we can compare 8 million in 1800 era to modern Ireland.

Ireland has a housing crisis, and the saddest part is the government (or other political parties) have zero plans or strategy to address it. They are just shuffling the deck with their evication ban rule change, landlord tax incentives, asking local councils to buy 1,500 private houses (the very few that are left on the market AND they will pay WAY more than it would cost to build a basic 2 bed apartment or home), still no plans to build a single home and add to the housing stock in 2023, 2024, 2025.

We read a report published today that 60,000 homes COULD be built on council lands across the country over 3 years ... It will never happen. We've heard and read it for years.

People are afraid to say anything or protest because they'll be labelled far right racists or else they'll get a lecture about the Irish who went to other countries in the last two centuries. They'll also get a sermon about EU and international responsibilities and obligations. Ive read it here on boards from several posters who continuously try to browbeat and intimidate anyone who even tries to question what's going on. The people who protested around the country a few weeks ago were called all kinds of disgusting names by some posters.

It's really annoying when the concerns of our own citizens are continuously dismissed especially when it is our taxes that pays for all the largesse. There's many who are delighted to champion the cause of new arrivals and yet they bully our own into keeping quiet and accepting the deterioration in services and the extra strain on the public purse. If we have so much money available now to put into building places for asylum seekers and refugees, why not fix our health service, disability supports, senior citizens home help, special needs, childcare, school buildings, ambulances, gardai and courts, housing and all the other issues that we were told couldn't be fixed because there was no funds.

Why do the needs of our own citizens go to the bottom of the list all the time ? Something needs to change.

I have often been in Greece and decided to travel across an entire continent to get away from the conditions there.

Honestly... Taken for fools, the more reporting the better.

The "far right" are obviously too stupid to score these open goals the media are giving them on a daily basis

👍 + I would add a trimming of parasitic ngos and charities of which we have far too many imv and who seem to have far too much influence on the governance of the country

It's all unraveling quite spectacularly for our no limits to refugees government - who could'a guessed eh!

On the news last night one third of all hotel beds outside Dublin gone for refugees, over 50% in Clare n Donegal. Anyway, keep em coming lads.

The Irish Examiner also understands the State is facing up to 87 legal challenges by those seeking asylum here who were not provided with accommodation- nice to see the legal eagles getting a slice of the pie also!

over 1200 asylum seekers due to be kicked out of these hotels by next month. That is on top of 85 Ukrainians an 29 IPAS seekers STILL coming into Ireland every single day!! https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41105059.html

Adding to that many of our own people who face evicted from April 1, this will become a very real mess.

The majority of these chancers are economic migrants trying to play the system. Move everyone from hotels to tents in camps with very basic amenities. No documentation coming from a flight then criminal charges, registered with Interpol, held in a cell and deported. Just look at Europe and the US they draw out the process for years so the economic migrants leave as they are not refugees.

Look at any country in Europe that allowed economic migrants, low integration, high crime rates, high unemployment and terrorism to top it all off. Our politicians and media are traitors.

We could clean out the social housing list if they went through it and removed people on it that should not be in the country, there are a huge amount of Roma on that housing list. Remove all of them and deport them back to Romania.

Another brawl in Citywest but don't worry, according to the Independent, it was only a 'small' one this time. When I went to look for an article on it to fact check, there was also a brawl in Eastwall yesterday. This is just not funny anymore.

I was going to make a crap joke about the Government selling tickets for the next brawl to recoup our hard earned money but I'm genuinely too upset to laugh.

I keep asking why that accommodation wasn't given over to students. Not wasters and violent thugs.

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/news/one-man-injured-in-brawl-at-citywest-refugee-centre-42415065.html

Who says refugees aren't useful to us? Most of them want to work and pay tax. In fact, don't the anti-refugee brigade claim they are not refugees at all but "economic migrants" (!)

🤣 That's your takeaway from three mass brawls over a single weekend?

"They'll pay for our pensions"

Economic migrants aren’t necessarily coming here to work, many who have no or little income will see our social welfare benefits as very attractive compared to what they have at home.

From your own academic paper:

"Controlling for individual characteristics suggests that the labour market disadvantages suffered by Africans cannot be attributed to compositional differences: Africans in Ireland are a relatively well-educated group concentrated in the prime working-age groups. The paper investigates an alternative explanation that suggests that the African disadvantage may be due to the policy of excluding asylum seekers from the labour market."