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

Sure. But in reality the next GE will prescribe what will hapoen as regards changes to policy, or none if the presrnt crowd are reelected.

No they are not. I have family members who are not white

No it is not destroying native cultures and it will not.

Nobody is replacing the native people.

Irish customs and cultures have travelled all over the world, they are not dying out, nor will they, no matter how many Fearmongering people repeat it.

I watched my cousins kids (2nd gen irish) dance around a Maypole in Bradford, along with their Indian and Pakistani classmates, the next weekend they were Irish dancing in a feis. 3 different cultural backgrounds, involving themselves in native British culture and also the culture of their ancestors. Anecdotal obvs. Not to mention GAA clubs worldwide with local members playing football a game from a foreign culture to them.

Doesn't seem like anything is dying out anytime soon.

Native American and Aboriginal are hardly good examples - those peoples were colonised and taken over by outside forces, with the native population being brutally oppressed. What happened there wasn't too dissimilar (for those on the receiving end) to being invaded by Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union.

People who move to another country to make a new life for themselves aren't doing so with the intention of oppressing or colonising the locals or trying to eradicate their culture or language. In very many cases in fact, they might even be drawn to the culture, language and customs of the host country and find it appealing.

Ploughing championship approached to use the marquees after they wrap up. The farce continues unabated.

Neighbours are having a wedding n marquee in their garden in a couple of weeks wonder will they be asked!

You keep linking the current housing / accommodation crisis to the country being supposedly "overpopulated". There are sufficient jobs, school places, hospital places, food, water, medicines, energy, heating, public transport, essential services, finance, welfare etc for the entire population. The only thing we are short on is housing and emergency accommodation : that is not an overpopulated country.

You bring up an interesting point there Goldengirl.

I think its fair to say that if the present govt remain, there wont be a change in asylum/refugee policy.

But if SF do get in, do people really expect any change on that front?

Surely SF, as a socialist party, should be welcoming of new immigrants into the country and may even seek to accelerate the influx of Asylum Seekers/Refugees?

I personally expect they will do zero to slow down Asylum immigration and we will remain welcoming to asylum seekers as a state.

The Irish Tines is reporting today that the govt have admitted that tented accomodation is now the primary mode of asylum/refugee accomodation for new arrivals, as of next week.

You attempted to post this same false rubbish only a few days ago, hilarious to see you trying it again. Shameless.

I’ll even link the same article again that illustrates you’re either a deliberate liar or live in fantasy land.

With reference to your comment, does the hospital overcrowding outlined in the above article suggest our hospital places are “sufficient” as you put it, or insufficient?

You say the amount of resentment towards people arriving here among your age group is huge, what age group is that? From my experience resentment and begrudgery is not age related.

Excuse me? They are Irish and were born in this country.

now what do you mean they are not indigenous Irish?

He means they don't smoke clay pipes and say the rosary every night.

Seems governments have been warned about overcrowding for years, The Irish Times, dated 2014

'Frontline doctors have warned that emergency departments (EDs) in hospitals across the country are “unequivocally dangerous” to patients due to severe overcrowding.

In a letter addressed to the Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa), which was also sent to the directorate of the HSE, the doctors highlight issues with staffing coupled with increasing numbers of patients and an ageing population.

"ED overcrowding should not be tolerated," wrote Dr Aileen McCabe, president of the Irish Emergency Medicine Trainees Association (IEMTA). "We believe that current ED conditions are unequivocally dangerous for patients and staff and there is substantial medical evidence that overcrowding leads to higher mortality and poorer patient outcomes."

In the letter, which was sent on January 9th, Dr McCabe says doctors around the country "whole-heartedly" welcomed the Hiqa Tallaght Hospital Investigation Report published in May 2012. "We felt that your report signalled clearly and unambiguously to hospital management and the healthcare commissioners that these unsafe systems of healthcare provision would no longer be accepted."

Much like they were warned about increasing homelessness in the 1990s but did nothing about that either.