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

Is there much evidence that refugees don't want to work? There undoubtedly would be lazy or feckless people among them who have no desire to work, but one wonders how representative this would be. For a very long time, refugees were literally banned by the State from working whilst in direct provision, and these laws were only changed recently.

What do you mean throwing out figures? There are currently 2.5m people in employment in Ireland meaning the other 2.5m are not in employment (either in receipt of state benefits or under 18s in education). I'm not so sure what would be so surprising if, say, 10% of non nationals are in receipt of social welfare....quite a few non nationals might have been living here for 10, 20, 30 years or even longer.

Never mind those who aren't bothered working because they are getting free money, board and accommodation we have those who are unemployable. What chance do any of those lads arriving with no english and no formal education have of getting a job? Did any of the extended Puskas family work since arriving in Ireland or have they survived on social welfare and free housing? Same with the Palani family in Sligo found with 375000 under the bed, have social welfare looked for repayment there?

Ehh do they pay for their accommodation, food, education, free dental and medical card treatment, transport to from appointments ?

Once again you are cherry picking to suit your argument.

You just chose the €39 a week pocket money, when you totally discount all the other very expensive ancillary costs of just having them in the state.

Oh and not to mention the huge legal costs incurred in fighting deportation orders.

FFS they cost way too much and offer fook all.

Time to begone.

The only ones benefiting are those involved in the asylum industry - accommodation providers, catering providers, lawyers, NGO employees.

A few then are just ideologues usually with a hatred of their own and some sort of guilt complex.

Years ago we were meant to feel guilty over original sin, now we are meant to feel guilty for the sins of long dead white people that are in no way related to us in this country.

In fact they walked on the our Irish ancestors just as much as on people in some far flown part of the planet.

What fooking use are most of them when they have shag all education, no skills, can't properly speak the language?

We don't need labourers, the jobs market has moved on from that.

And we have enough unskilled labour available (if we bothered sorting out our own ones unwilling to work) without bringing in people who will not integrate as shown throughout Europe and are just going to cause crime and social upheavel in years to come.

You don't need to be a rocket scientist to see the writing on the wall.

I feel bad for the poor guards who are going to have to police this mess in coming years. We can kiss Ireland being a safe country goodbye if we aren’t there already.

One of the reasons I am against the bogus AS is the cost on the taxpayer, and the impact on accomm prices.

Here is a good example:

"A Travelodge firm recorded a pre-tax profit of €8.65m from operating a Dublin hotel exclusively for International Protection (IP) applicants last year.

Pumkinspice Ltd secured a contract in early 2022 from the State to house IP applicants at its newly-constructed, 393 room hotel on Townsend Street in Dublin 2.

The directors state that "the hotel secured a State contract and traded exclusively under this contract in 2022".

Revenues = €18.54m from the State contracts.

Earnings Before Interest, Depreciation, Tax and Amortisation (EBITDA) = €12.15m for the year

Net profits = 8.65m, nearly a 50% margin, or over €23,000 net profit per day

A worker on a modest 40k faces a 48.5% marginal income tax rate, in order to pay for illegal immigrants to stay in a hotel that the same worker could not afford. What a country.

The only winners are the owner of the hotel. They have no marketing costs, 100% occupancy, and the State hands them over 18m per year.

The Civil Service are so bad at negotiating, the hotel still manages to make 50% net profits.

Obviously services should be world class in this country, there's plenty of money.

Really? If be interested to hear what parties you think they will vote for?

or even what is the favourite party for them right now

As mentioned above, Goldman Sachs are coining it at the moment, 'altruistically' helping to solve the whole worlds problems by flinging Irish taxpayers money at it

It's obviously a pure coincidence that one FG TD, Jenifer Carroll-MacNeill's hubby is 'Hugo MacNeill OBE' ex director of their [Goldman Sachs] investment branch in Ireland and may or may not, have built up relationships in that organisation - so for the caring people that think they are defending the poor people of the world, just think a little bit deeper will you