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

Should Irish people be stopped moving from to other countries seeing as they are putting pressure on their services and infrastructure there?

We already are. I can’t just up sticks tomorrow and move to US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand.

Imagine that

Why would the likes of Australia or Canada not want irish people moving.

We invest in tradesmen and due to lack of housing they bring those skills over and massively benefit those countries.

A friend works for a big builder and he is youngest on site in his 30s, yet people think we can magically throw up thousands of houses.

The peopld we need to build houses are doing it abroad.

While we import non skilled people who haven't the skill to build houses.

We invest in healthcare staff who then go abroad and other countries benefit from that investment.

We then need to bring in healthcare staff from abroad.

Do people realise before we had to bring in immigrants to work in healthcare that Irish people done the work?

You know the perfect fantasy world you created in your head does not exist right? At this stage i can not tell if you genuinely believe what you post or are just high level trolling?

The worst part of all this is that people like you are allowed to vote.

I'm all for immigration in the right circumstances.

My description of overpopulation is when the important services cannot handle the amount of people living in the country.

I realise this is a fixable problem but we shouldn't be taking anybody in until it is fixed.

The health and welfare of all the people already residing here and of those coming in is being ignored.

So stop immigration, improve and expand the health services, the security services and all other critical services and then open the country up to immigration again.

As for housing, the big problem is the investment/vulture funds. They are buying up property everywhere, renting it out and enjoying the massive increase in the valuation of their assets. This has to be stopped as has them buying up new housing developments before they are completed. This happened in Maynooth a couple of years ago.

I'm glad to see you have dropped the pretence of your overcrowded argument and at last started posting honestly.

A self admitted ring wing follower

I would agree that a temporary halt for a few months on all immigration would be very beneficial, so long as there was an actual plan in place to improve all services that we need. I don't have much hope in our government doing that.

homelessness has always been a problem, it was pointed out to governments for decades and they ignored it and failed to take any action, indeed committing to policies that have made it much much worse

Stresses on housing, services and infrastructure are the most natural thing in in any modern society. They do not equate to a country being "overpopulated".

How can we have high net immigration if we are overpopulated? Nobody would want to move to a country that is "full".

Nearly all of them, we are one of the richest countries in the world. We have sufficient food, water, medicines, hospitals, schools, energy supply, transport, employment, finance etc for our current population size.

The one thing we are very short on is housing supply - but that does not equate to an overpopulated country, it simply means we are low on surplus housing.

The naivety of that answer just goes to show how little you actually know.

Course there's plenty of room in this country, I've 30 acres and my uncle beside me 100+. Maybe some genius can work out how many tents n bunk beds can be fitted in that space. Someone was on yesterday telling us how many sq kilometres there was here n all.

Anyone with any questions about school, creche, hospital, infrastructure capacity etc , we'll just respond with is feidir linn!