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

I am not part of what world? The world of my family? The world of my friends children? What makes you think I am not of that world?

I have a child of my friend living with me at the moment, why would I not be part of that world? I currently am renting in Dublin, I know all about the housing crisis!

I and everyone else I know, understand that the housing crisis is nothing to do with asylum seekers

Returning to my previous post, can you point out where I advocated for zero immigration and suggested that I’m free to migrate at will. Come on now ‘Suvi’, back up that assertion.

The fact is, you don’t understand the pressures of being a parent to a young family, with most of your friends also in their 30s in similar situations. We’re the demographic acutely and most directly impacted by the housing crisis. We’re the demographic viewing houses weekly or monthly. We’re also the demographic who experience first hand the intense competition and understand the various drivers, of which migration is undoubtedly one.

Did you even read my previous post? I ask you again, why are you conflating asylum seeking / refugees with the pressure that inward migration is exerting on housing and other services? Why are you disingenuously persisting with this angle?

Again, I ask you to back up your assertion that I am advocating for zero immigration. You made that accusation, now corroborate it.

Just listen to yourself. People with young children don’t understand the housing crisis. Seriously? They are precisely the people who are desperately scrambling for housing to accommodate their spouses and their own flesh and blood. I can assure you that that those 30 somethings, who you claim to understand, would be astonished by your last post.

I would argue though that the type of housing and accommodation that the working Irish are seeking may not be the same thing at all that migrant workers are looking for. Migrant workers are often young and single and will frequently take any type of accommodation near enough to where they work (as their main aim is to save money and build up a nest egg or to send it home). The working Irish who seek accommodation are often young couples or young families seeking to put down permanent roots in this country : it's not at all a given that the two cohorts are directly competing with each other for the same houses and apartments.

What answer are you looking for?

You didn't answer me either, where I asked you to point out that I asked for your zero refugee stance? Which I didn't,btw, you claimed I did.

I am Actively going to house viewings in Dublin. There are lots of people at most viewings. Some look like non nationals, some look like Irish nationals.

Doesn't matter one bit who they are, or where they are originally from.

Unless, you think we should banish all non nationals from the country......

I have no idea what you're trying to say here?

Maybe think about it overnight, and come back tomorrow with an actual question?.

The pressures are caused by lack of supply - not by acute competition. Stop giving the government a free pass on this and blaming buyers and renters for the predicament they find themselves in. To take your argument to its logical conclusion, you may as well be claiming there are too many returning emigrants in the country, that they should have stayed in Australia and the US and 'they are causing the housing crisis'.

It's gone from a peaceful country to the gun capital of Europe with gun violence, gang violence and ghettos.

But all your police friends welcome the increased workload and the increased risk of being shot.

They all ignore this and are in favour of immigration and express to you there biggest frustration is others talking about it.

Everyone you know has nothing but positive things to say about immigration despite the soar in popularity of right wing policies.

If you said a handful of all these sweedes you know had reservations about immigration it might make it slightly believable.

But no every single sweede you know has nothing but positive things to say about immigration.

Well you previously said you have loads of sweedish friends who had nothing but positive things to say.

Now all the police you know are annoyed others point out the increase in crime.

You are correct you didn't say they all spoke positively about immigration.

So can you now clarify if any of them have anything negative to say about it?

So your police friends, who should naturally be motivated by law and order, are more worried about what other nations think of their current situation, than the decline of law and order in their nation? That's a tale that most reasonable people would really struggle to get on board with.

You just said they have pride and love in their country.

Due to mass immigration the country is gone a peaceful country to the gun capital of Europe and has increased gang violence.

It would seem strange to me a policeman or women who have pride and love for their country would have nothing negative to say about one of the reasons the country has turned into a disaster.

But what really angers them is people who speak the truth about the country.

I'm sure even people with similar views to you are nodding there head.

You call their country as disaster. They do not.

'their' 😉

You asked if I ever heard anyone saying anything negative about immigration. I have not.

I will take their opinions rather then your take on the law and order of Sweden

In a nation that's lurching to the right too, it's almost impossible that this is true.

From what they've said so far though, they seem to know not one person in their life that has an issue with immigration. How convenient.