Immigration to Ireland - policies, challenges, and solutions *Read OP before posting*

The free movement around Europe is good but surely some security protocols are in place.

Surely they must have some sort of database that flags criminals or former criminals when their passport is scanned.

I always assumed that was the case but maybe that's not the case.

Otherwise can't violent sex offenders like in this case just move around Europe without anyone knowing what he is and what danger he poses to women and kids.

Independent TD MacSharry on refugees: “Ireland is obviously providing a minimum of €230 per week. The next highest is €107 in Finland. In Denmark, it's between €60 and €80 and in the Netherlands, it's €54,” he said.

Are these amounts correct?

Yes but we are becoming more and more "Americanised" every year. The economy and making money is the priority for many. Look how important career and titles and salaries have become to people working in US multinationals and telling everyone how great they are on LinkedIn including the shiny new masters they are slaving on. All to the detriment of their family and friends. Many Irish people have lost perspective and the US employers love our willingness to serve/please. Rant over 😂

Nonsense. There’s nothing ‘Americanized’ about having ambition and striving to get the most out of yourself intellectually.

I work for one of those much maligned US multinationals. It’s a pleasure to work there, surrounded by smart, capable people from whom I am constantly learning. There’s no boasting on LinkedIn, bragging about salaries, or subservience to our supposed American overlords.

Instead, it’s a group of people working hard to provide for their families and yes, to grow their skills and knowledge. Your characterization is so far wrong, it’s laughable.

One thing most of the people working for my employer haven’t lost perspective on, is immigration. There’s a very broad consensus that the volume of inward immigration is far too high and there are legitimate concerns about IPAs showing up at our borders, sans documentation. Perhaps you should meet a few people gainfully employed and contributing to this country, before you trot out your wildly inaccurate cliches?

I have worked in 3 of them and I still do contracts for them. I never said there is anything wrong with ambition but the corporate dream is very misleading and deceptive. When you are working 50-60+ hour weeks in order to "get the most out of yourself", other aspects of your life will suffer. Add in the early mornings for the India/Far East calls or late at night for the US masters, it takes a toll. Usually health or family. I have seen it too often but if you don't see that, fair enough.

Why didn't you try the same thing with German immigration officials instead? They took in 1m Syrian refugees after all.

That's true for Ukraine refugees who can claim jobseekers' allowance, but adult asylum seekers get €38.80 per week.

Romania is in the EU

True. I hope you have better luck fielding these facts than I had.

Of course they are not flagged.

Someone who has a criminal conviction has paid their debt to society. You cannot further punish people by limiting their travelling.

Surely people noticed all our Irish criminals going to live in Spain over the years........

Paedophiles and sex offenders on registers are different. They are constantly monitored after release and the countries inform each other of their whereabouts.

People not on registers are not monitored post release and are free to travel.

Could you point out where I said anything about previous convictions and future conduct? Anywhere?

If someone is applying for a visa for this country, then previous convictions must be given and can bar entry, it's not just America that do that.

Of course if you don't need a visa you don't need one.

Lots of people don't need visas, UK and EU citizens.

Which is what the conversation was actually about. An EU citizen.

Why the hell should a country which cannot provide enough houses, school places, prison cells, hospital beds and GP places for the current population (many of whom are immigrants) be continually trying to import people into the country (essentially that is what immigration is ).

Until all the problems with looking after our existing population are fixed it makes no sense to allow so many additional people into the country.

Why the hell can't the government stop putting the cart before the horse and realize that they should fix all the problems for our existing population and then we can allow more immigrants to come live here if they wish.

Surely that is a much more sensible way of running the country than the current situation.

Fact is the country is currently overpopulated, if it wasn't we'd have none of the problems I highlighted above.Overpopulation is a key issue impacting standard of life across most countries all over the world why should we be trying to follow suit and be overpopulated as a country when we don't need to.

Who'll will pay the future pensions is a bullshit argument, it's an argument based on the pyramid scheme economics that have been promoted across the world for the past 75 years, fact is that method of running an economy is clearly ridiculous and policy makers have to really work harder and come up with a better way of running the economy, perpetual population growth in order to sustain peoples pensions etc is not a good way of doing things.

My above argument applies to all countries not just Ireland.

If we can provide them why haven't they been provided.If our politicians and public services are not so good at doing what they're supposed to do then the last thing we need to do is overstretch them and have them needing to be more competent than they are capable of ever being

Just because our population is smaller now than it was 170 years doesn't mean it isn't over-populated.We should be running the country with a buffer for everything i.e. always have more houses, more hospital beds more school places etc to sustain the population, that would be a prudent way to run any country, why do we need to get near capacity for anything it's a country not an airline that we are running.

Why are some people obsessed with packing this country full of people when it's quite obvious that overpopulation is the root of most of the worlds problems,if we are underpopulated then that is good as that is the way all countries should be.