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

As I said, it's because of your first class public services.

Leaving the EU is the new Godwins law on these Immigration related threads.

The problem with that idea (and I'm not saying that it's a bad one) is who to replace them with??? Since the foundation of the state, we have had the musical chairs of basically the same parties. Now though it seems more than likely that Sinn Fein will be the main party in power after the next election. And if it worked out like that, then (as far as I know) it will be the first time since the first Dail Eireann in 2019.

Well in theory anyway, it's free movement within the EU member states, with all vetting done on the EU external borders. And to be honest, it has been one of the best results of joining the EU, when you look at what it was like in the pre-EU days. But while the free movement has been a boon, it is now becoming a major problem, which threatens the EU itself. Legally or illegally, non-EU residents are flooding in, and once in, are free to travel within the EU due to the lack of border checks, and herein lies the problem. Because what is happening now is out of all proportion to what went before. So much more must be done to stem the flow of illegal migrants, better policing at the entry points, quicker turnaround times for unsuccessful applicants. More resources will have to be allocated to border controls, holding stations built and staffed. If fact the whole migration issue (which was not designed to handle the current situation) needs to be re-thought and updated.

I would think you could add in people who actually don't live here into it and who are completely unaffected.

You will see someone refer to Ireland as your country which reads as the person doesn't even live in ireland.

If the aim is for cheap foreign labour than I don't see that working too well, the dole and benefits is not far off a minimum wage job.

I don't see many people moving here and going out to work when they can get similar money for doing nothing.

RTE Drivetime sent out a reporter to some Algerian lad fresh off the plane and not a word of English so another guy had to translate.

Apparenty he isn't happy and said he has no money.

Any other country wouldn't let someone like that who will be nothing but a burden to the taxpayer past the airport terminal but here he is just one of many that will keep coming.

The law is the law. You can't just pretend it doesn't exist when it suits. As I've repeatedly said, if you don't like the rules that are laid down by the EU then start advocating for a Irexit.

As if Brexit was not enough proof that "Exit' does not work. Imagine what Putin would do to the individual and separated states of a former EU. Does not bear thinking about. Would not surprise me in the slightest if these "Exit" proposers were funded by Putin.

Sure, but applications have to be made, and that process entails details being given etc, so it's not just everyone or anyone turning up. There is a vetting process. Yes, and since Schengen was founded in 1895, when there was little African immigration, a situation that has changed drastically. Thousands and thousands of migrants arriving in Lampedusa ( and other places) for example, paperless and unvetted. Just how do you manage migration at that scale??? Australia was lambasted years ago when they transferred migrants to places like Nauru or Manus Island. That slowed down the migrants. The permitted nrs of migrants to Australia for 2023-24 are set at 190'000. So well managed migrant flow's.

You can work with one as well, I did for many years. Outrageous he was signed off for so long on "disability"

You're understanding of it is incorrect. You don't need to work for 5 years to have the right to permenant residence in another country, you just need to have legally lived their for 5 years.

But you are correct about needing exceptional circumstances and one of those exceptional circumstances is "if you stop working because you are no longer able to work due to an accident at work or occupational illness. In this case, you have the right to remain regardless of how long you have lived in the country prior to the accident or illness."

Your Europe,

It's stopped being our Europe long ago

Where are these people staying when they are allowed into the country?

I thought we were chocka with refugees and migrants already?

Everywhere was full when the students came back for college in September. Am I missing something here?

They were even kicking Ukrainian refugees out of the student accommodation in Dublin to make way for the college students.

Are these new guys given tents when they arrive?