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

Also as has been said before the majority 68% of immigrants have a third level degree or a qualification, which puts many into the skilled group.

As per CSO statistics to April 2022.

Perfectly normal, nothing to see here, just a violent attack on 2 women.

Uk at war now too apparently. poor fella

The idea that high skilled migrant workers are valuable to an economy but not unskilled people is very popular with the Tory Party and the British right wing press - there was talk a couple of years back under the Johnson regime about issuing large numbers of work visas to high skilled workers from inside and outside the EU, but not to anyone else.

The idea is of course complete nonsense. The economy has just as much need and demand for unskilled workers - people working in hotels, cafes, restaurants, shops, fast food outlets, filling stations, construction sites, waste collection, nursing homes, hospitals, public transport, agriculture, food processing, delivery companies etc.

Must have missed that one

It doesn't exist it's made up by the far right and anyone who wants to discuss it must be racist because only the far right want to discuss it ,

Ehh…

Mr Morawiecki said the question will say: "Do you support the admission of thousands of illegal immigrants from the Middle East and Africa under the forced relocation mechanism imposed by the European bureaucracy?"

The video announcing the question includes scenes of burning cars and other street violence in Western Europe. A black man licks a huge knife in apparent anticipation of committing a crime.

Party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski then says: "Do you want this to happen in Poland as well? Do you want to cease being masters of your own country?"

Not leaving much room open for discussion, are they? 😂

There wouldn’t be a similar referendum in Ireland for the simple reason that there wouldn’t be a hope in hell Government would attempt to use the same tactics again as McDowell did in the 2004 referendum on citizenship -

Remember how we were told in the beginning that some of the maternity hospitals were being overrun, and that the senior people in those hospitals had pleaded with the Minister for Justice to do something about the law? That was a wild exaggeration. In fact, remarkably, it transpires that most of the pressure being suffered by maternity hospitals is not caused by extra babies, but by Government cutbacks.

There has been a significant drop in the number of births in Ireland in the last 20 years, and a significant drop in the number of nights a mother stays in hospital while having a baby. As a consequence, the number of "birth nights" in Ireland's maternity hospitals has more than halved since 1980.

And yet they are suffering undeniable pressure not caused, as I said, by extra babies at all.

LIKE a lot of previous referendum campaigns, this one is full of scare stories based on untruths. And most of the scare stories are coming from people who are trying to make us afraid. Some day, I suspect, Michael McDowell will regret his role in trying to lead a campaign based on the politics of fear.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/arid-10034383.html

McDowell regrets nothing.

The Lagos express was real and well documented...

Well before you start worrying about looking after "millions of refugees " maybe show a little compassion to the ones already here.

Not being reported in any mainstream media

what the hell

Media narrative and bias clear as day to see

It was explained to you already how the country is not overpopulated.

wilful ignorance doesn't change it

Fergus Finlay- god love him, the snouts in the NGO trough were put out big time by the 2004 referendum, and the subsequent drop off in anchor babies.

A few clowns of justice minister's the last few years and we are back at record levels last year. So all's well that ends well Fergus, now let's never let the plebs vote on this farce again!

How were they put out in the slightest? The referendum was about citizenship, didn’t have any impact on immigration figures, which have only been rising since 2004, enabling the growth of NGOs which cater to their welfare.

It certainly wasn’t because of a few clowns of Justice Ministers since 2004 that numbers of people immigrating to Ireland increased in the interim, much of it was down to our economic boom fuelled by immigrant labour, and the subsequent economic bust which saw many of them leave, and then our subsequent economic growth which made Ireland an attractive country for immigrants who again contribute significantly to the Irish economy enabling immigrants to stay and make a life for themselves and their children.

There’s no need for a referendum on citizenship again, precisely because of McDowell’s lies which led to the passage of the referendum allowing Government to make decisions regarding citizenship legislation. In an ironic twist of fate it was McDowell who lost his seat in the 2007 General Election, and he’s been hanging around Irish politics in one form or another like a bad smell since then.

If the country was overpopulated, people would be leaving in their hundreds of thousands, as conditions would be beyond dire and unbearable.

30,000 Irish emigrants moved back home last year (a huge number of people relatively speaking). Why on earth would they return to the country if it was supposedly "overpopulated"?

Is that 30k figure net? Returnees vs those emigrating?