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

It’s hard to describe it just as I’m sure it’s difficult for someone from say Thailand to describe their nations core character but it’s something that was created over centuries and is with us due to the people who came before us

people from Nigeria , India or Poland can’t have that same inner understanding of it and we can’t expect them to either ,therefore due to the enormous demographic change in the past twenty five years,the country must change

that’s not a frivolous thing

I’m not saying people from Poland or India or Nigeria want to undermine our culture, I’m saying that they can’t be expected to maintain it so this means that the country must change

With a broad stroke, I think it's fair to say that the governing parties have dismally failed on practically every front bar "the economy".

And when one considers that the very purpose of economy is to improve society, then the economy is also a failure.

Nearly every metric of infrastructure can be pointed to as worse than ever. Access, facility, transport, housing, health provision, social mobility, the lot.

In all my time I have never seen such a cavernous divide between the desires and needs of a nations people compared to its leaderships action. It truly is bizarre.

What's more, this symptomatic failure of government can be seen across the same few countries. All with suspiciously similar symptoms, all with suspiciously detached leadership, all with suspiciously similar growing resentment in tow.

This isn't to say its a giant conspiracy. It's just plain old greed at the heart of it. But I'll be damned if there isn't a reckoning on the horizon. An utterly unsustainable state of affairs.

The problem with stating that X thing can't be done, against a growing backdrop of X needing to be done, is that it's only a matter of action. A split second in time.

The rules are the rules until they aren't. And that changes in a split second too, a signature on a bit of paper, a handshake, a declaration.

The trends are the trends until they aren't.

The acceptable is acceptable until the very second it isn't.

Nothing is immutable.

And if one were to put a finger in the air on society's direction, change is wanted more and more.

Time will tell.

Governments did it during Covid , no entry or very strictly controlled

Further to the point above, and only sticking to housing as a single bellwether, it is a morbidly curious question that comes to mind. What is the breaking point number?

At one point we would have been 100k homes behind what's needed. And then later 140k, and later 190k.

And currently, it's approximately 250k.

It would be easy to have jumped in before and state "There's no way society is going to tolerate the implications of a 100k home deficit compared to the ever increasing demand"

But demonstrably not!

Will 290k be the snapping point that will get people onto the streets running amok? Will it need to be a million?

Or is it time sensitive? Will parents lose the plot after another 3 years of their adult children stuck in the home? 9 years?

Will homelessness need to reach 30k, or 90k?

Again, this is only housing as an indicator, but there is no chance this can be continued indefinitely. The conclusion is simply a question of when, not if, the line of no return is crossed.

The modus operandi of this economy is demonstrably not fit for purpose, yet it is held above all as THE target to chase at the expense of all else. Year after year. Crazy.

Patience is gone. The breaking point number will be seen eventually.

Anyone who sees the current trends as neverending and the correct course that people want and or need is out of their mind.

Call it hyperbole all you want, but I can well imagine this ridiculous point in Irish history being mentioned alongside the famine in time to come. Societal destruction ushered in by greed and utter disregard for the inevitability of cause and effect. With as much fondness.