Time for a zero refugee policy? - *Read OP for mod warnings and threadbans - updated 11/5/24*

I think the poster means its the govts choice.

And therefore our choice, by virtue of being able to vote in a govt.

Talbot St is indeed very run down.

I dont think many people would argue with that.

The North Inner City needs mixed development housing, allowing more working people and home owners to live in that part of the city.

Investment from the govt to supplement the mixed tenancy of the area would also help the recovery.

There are green shoots with the Clerys development, but the way the Govt have allowed the Northern part of O'Connell St to lie derelict for decades is scandalous.

I couldnt imagine Oxford St in London ever suffering those levels of neglect, nor Princes St in Edinburgh.

That said, removing all immigrants from the area wont change a thing.

Enabling a mixed residential development and building from there is the only way to make a change for the better.

Now GG, it's a long time since my mammy told me off, and I don't want it happening again at my stage in life, so desist!

Anyway, not going to justify myself to anyone. Me merely having a grin at something that I found mildly amusing is not me signing up for the National Front now is it? FWIW I feel there are some who arrive here for the free prams and cars, and vouchers for Veuve Clicquot which they quaff on the terrace of their penthouse apartments (anywhere but D4 of course), at our expense.

It's a disgrace Joe.

Well immigration wasn't a prominent issue in the last GE campaign, and nobody could have seen the Ukranian influx coming, but I don't see that you could have expected the main political parties to be doing things much differently in light of their stated policies

So what ones do chart for you?

Yup a snowflake far right racist. The lads are only relaxing after a hard days work.

Is being deported and removed from welfare something to do?

Well political parties generally don't go into granular detail about what they would do in government in their manifestoes. But the Greens did say they would

Work towards ending Direct Provision and

replacing it with a not for profit system based

on accommodation provided through existing

TBH anyone who voted for the Greens in the expectation they would implement restriuctive immigration policies deserves everything they (don't) get...

Well a start would be to implement the EU laws that Leo et al love telling us about.

1. Repatriate any EU citizens here after three months if they cannot support themselves. This alone would have saved Aisling Murphy.
2. Make all EU arrivals register on arrival, and with the local office in the area they move to. Move on again and register in the new place. Don’t register without an iron clad reason and get caught, enjoy your flight home and don’t come back.

Those are just 2 things we could do to reduce pressure on housing, health, education and social welfare.

Don't worry about corporation tax drying up here, the government has a plan. Yes, you and I are going to have PRSI increases for the next five years in order to replenish the social fund. Would this be the same social fund that is currently paying full benefits to the 100,00 or so Ukranians who are coming here in increasing numbers? Some from such war torn hellholes as Canada?

But wait, what about the "we need immigrants to pay our pensions brigade?" We're paying for such immigrants both economically and in a high social cost, as the unfortunate Ryan Casey, boyfriend of Aisling Murphy and her family can all too easily tell us.

There are some people with genuine concerns about refugees. I wouldn't class them all necessarily as Anti refugee/Far right. I think there is a line between concerns about refugees and being anti refugee. I think when you go from genuine well meaning concerns to being anti refugee that you are at that stage far right and Its ludicrous to claim that you can be anti refugee but not far right.