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

"Stephen Bedford was the only scumbag arrested last night. No other scumbags. Fixed your post for you."

Something wrong with you?? Back peddling??? I see scum on both sides I also see scum trying to harbour an individual who was arrested for having a sword in position. Its quite easy to understand,those are the facts just you seem to be slow on the uptake of what's pointed out to you.

Don't recall this working out too well for our traveller friends in the past.

I agree people tend to use the terms refugee and asylum seeker interchangeably, without understanding the difference. Let me help you there. An asylum Seeker is someone seeking asylum (clue is in the title), or Refugee status to give it another name. Once someone has been granted status then they are a refugee and no longer an asylum seeker. If their claim is rejected (and they are not given an alternative permission to remain) then they are also no longer an asylum seeker. They could then be accurately described as illegal in the State and would be subject to a Deportation Order. To qualify for refugee status you must be fleeing persecution on account of your race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership of a social group (e.g LGBT in the current parlance.) If you don’t reach the threshold for Refugee status you may qualify for Subsidiary Protection, for which you must be in danger of of facing serious harm if returned to your home country. Serious harm is defined as death penalty, torture or inhuman and degrading punishment, or indiscriminate violence to a situation of international or internal armed conflict. Natural disasters or economic circumstances are not a basis for being granted. If you don’t qualify for either protection stream you are then assessed to see if there is any other humanitarian reason why you should be allowed remain (most commonly this would be family links - e.g you have a child here) Fail this leg and you get a Deportation Order. This is known as the single procedure and was introduced in the 2015 International Protection Act in an attempt to streamline the procedure.

110% agree with this. They have created this situation by their policy making.

I live down the road in D4, unfortunately we have a situation now where some of the local feral creatures are jumping on the bandwagon to cause trouble. I feel absolutely awful for the people that are forced to camp there. Scary times.

Honestly as citizens we should be uniting against the Government in their failure to deliver on many fronts

- housing

- health

- infrastructure

- immigration policy

And many more.

It's simmering and I don't like where this is going. Someone will lose a life. If Leo cannot see that the policy decisions and incompetence of Govt Departments have led us to this point he is **** blind.

I pay may taxes into the high tax bracket, I used to be aligned with FG but they have been nothing short of a disaster for this country.

The anti immigration protesters are behaving like utter simpletons and morons. I am all for protesting but they are doing their cause no favours.

Too many native Irish non contributers around aswell. A soft touch.

Too much social housing full of entitled scum around the city centre. That problem needs to be solved. Canada Goose clad scrotes causing hassle with no intention of ever making meaningful contributions as they pass their work ethic to furture generations.

They may be good for dealing drugs, that's about it.

Sorted soon hmmm , well I sincerely hope you are right but I have a feeling it won’t be the case…. I genuinely believe aspects of this problem here is playing out for the majority of this decade…might have longer implications.

Quite simply when this war finishes and all the military personnel over there will want to escape here to be with their families…. They won’t want to be hanging around for to do it all again in 4 or 5 years… our government will have no option but to extend the same assistance to them.

I don’t back the governments here to enforce any temporary aspect of this assistance….you’ll all recognise that ‘temporary’ is a word not being used by politicians and hasn’t been for a time… just ‘protection’.. NOT accidental.

I use the word assistance as it’s light years more then ‘protection’… same as ‘temporary’ was never that either….

its been quite the PR hoodwink job from the outset by Leo and co. A carefully managed PR job, hoodwink and some ..

might have had some chance if Leo hadn’t been Taoiseach, might have had some chance if it had instead been an honest broker dealing fairly from the top of the deck, but Leo ? He’s really put this country and it’s citizens behind the 8 ball, in big trouble actually…

Thousands of Ukrainian military personnel coming here will have all sorts of baggage…. Physical, psychological…. This is a long term shîtshow for Ireland and it’s citizens…

When you have a dearth in effective leadership with backbone, a dearth of honest brokers like we have in Leo especially…..

1000% there will just be an amnesty and Irish passports handed out like confetti..

Europe will be the playground of the Ukrainian citizen…it will be ‘home’…

In time, if Russia attacks again with the Ukraine EU members , the EU will be at war. Think on that for a while people.

our neutrality won’t be worth a fûck either way with a threat….

The door is now open to Africa and everywhere, they see how easy, how lucrative it is…. A zero policy is probably necessary.

More affluent communities ? Because it costs more to attain property there…

probably less available housing as the areas are considered ‘more desirable’…

Leo was the cheerleader of no limits… and the Taoiseach as more arrived and people here got concerned, which he arrogantly dismissed with that awfully insincere grin… NO LIMITS

Yes, but he wasn’t the catalyst as to when things started going pear shaped stoking and fanning the flames as Leo was the catalyst and the announcer, champion and cheerleader of no limits which he repeated during his tenure as Taoiseach as well as when he was Tainiste.

He’s been repeatedly at it since day one, with the capacity to reverse that position but instead championing it.

so you can’t go from no limits to no refugees.

Not at all, the blame is certainly for sharing…

March 2nd article is when I’m seeing Leo quoted as NO limits

leo :

“It could be a few thousand, it could be 20,000 as Minister Coveney suggested yesterday.

But we're not going to set a limit on it.”