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

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.”

Is this the Dogan chap with 150 offences committed that Turkey are looking for?

Inner city Dublin social problems are probably something that's going to have to be dealt with at some stage. Some posters on here talking about taking away their homes or benefits or throwing them in mount joy. We can debate whether we are too soft on them or what the solutions are.

What can't be denied however is the fact that they are Irish and therefore 100% Ireland's responsibility. There are no easy answers.

Something that should be easy however is saying "no" to the rest of the world's problems. We don't owe Nigeria, Georgia or even for that matter Ukraine a thing.

A lot of posters dislike seeing Ukrainian men in Ireland. However they at least have a real threat of being fed into a war and being killed. Should they fight? Perhaps but also perhaps not.

Zero refugee policy is adopted by Denmark, Singapore, Japan and others. It's a perfectly reasonable position and a position that should be adopted by Ireland. Ireland has done more than enough and been an absolute hero to Ukrainian. Ireland can be justifiably extremely proud.

Are you saying we should actively encourage shanty towns and hope they become more widespread?

I don't support scumbags protesting, I do support a shanty town being dismantled.

It's shameful failing to deal with immigration and instead focusing on things most people don't care about, our politicians have fucked this. Too much money too little decision making.

The actions of the violent neanderthals plays right into the government's hands. They have proven themselves to be far far right gobshites.

I don't doubt for a second that they are being encouraged to act like assholes on various social media channels but it completely ruins the arguments of any anti immigration folks.