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

There are 44 million Muslims in Europe. How many of those are involved in criminality and illegal behaviour, would you say?

In the early to mid 2010s, we actually had net migration i.e. more people were leaving the country than arriving. Strangely, this was no utopia and we still had a housing crisis (lots of stories of homeless families having to be accommodated in hotels).

No apology. The statements you like to are government policy - they are not a legal requirement on the Irish state. The whole point of a large amount of this thread is that our policies are wrong and should be changed. There is no REQUIREMENT for our state to grant these benefits, and the fact that they are being granted to economic migrants who are showing up at our airports having destroyed their passports on the plane and then claiming asylum/refugee status is the whole problem. These policies could be changed by the government in the morning if we chose. One of the main reasons they haven't been changed is that misguided people like you are dominant in the media and there is therefore no reflection in the press of the overwhelming frustration of the general population in Ireland with these policies.

Let me say one more thing to you. You probably consider yourself a liberal or progressive person, I imagine? Believe it or not, I consider myself one too. However in effectively arguing for untrammeled immigration by any and all who wish to come to this country - and stubbornly denying the rational argument of those who point out that this is madness - you are doing your cause a great deal of harm. I have lived in several coumtries which have experienced high degrees of immigration in the last several decades and in each case society has become less cohesive (and broadly - less pleasant) and god awful right wing parties and politicians have either come to power or dangerously near to power due to the fact that the native populations in those countries have become frustrated with their government's immigration policies. This is the reason we had Brexit. This is the reason that Trump was elected and this is the reason right wing governments have recently been elected in the Netherlands, Sweden, etc, some of the most liberal countries in Europe. Ordinary people will not put up with this "right on" self-defeating nonsense endlessly.

Also, nobody is saying that Ireland will become an Islamic state but they are saying that Islamic values are a danger to liberalism in this country as Muslims who come here and are granted citizenship will have the vote - and guess what? They are not likely to vote for policies which progressives and liberals would like to see enacted.

We will always need some levels of migration to support the economy and of course irish born people will migrate to other countries for work/life experience etc.

IPO migration isnt going to stop either, as we see more war and famine across the globe.

How we manage the IPO migration in particular is an interesting question, but i dont see any of the major parties championing a restrictive approach.

But who to replace them?

There wont be any change if the govt isnt driving that change.

Time will tell, as they say.

I dont see any new party bearing down on the current big three, though.

The EU stance on immigration will continue to influence our steer.

There are obviously some right wing uprisings across europe, but I still dont see any major change here because there is no party promoting immigrational change.

If the govt can moderate the IPO numbers coming into Ireland and increase the housing output over the next 5 yrs at the same time, that would be a big step forward towards taking the heat out of the issue for the general public.

It's no coincidence they are cutting Ukrainian benefits unless they move out and find their own accommodation. The government badly needs to free up their spots so the bus loads of African, Arab, Albanian and Georgian men can keep flowing.

Other countries in Europe will eventually get all their ducks in a row on immigration, and Ireland will be seen as a soft touch place for other bigger, more influential E.U members to dump pesky Refugees/Asylum Seekers in.

Ireland will happily oblige as we are the best boys in the class.

We’ll learn eventually, but by then it’ll be far too late. They don’t say ‘Paddy last’ for nothing.

It is going to come to a head very soon so I don't see that happening.

We are literally at full capacity where we are filling hotel rooms and putting people in tents.

We have 500,000 adults living at home who we should be building houses for.

We have people arriving here each week and we are not building enough houses to house them nevermind the lack of housing we have for people here.

We are closing in on a recession where we could have huge job loses meaning a big tax hit for the goverment and we won't be able to sustain this.

I can't see this madness going on for much longer to be honest.

The damage is already well and done but they will have to put an end to any further madness soon.

Yeah. Appears that way. And renting out rooms when going back for Xmas . But I suppose it's to be expected.

I can't remember the article but the belief is we would need to be building around 50,000 houses a year for the next decade in order to solve the housing crisis. We have nowhere near enough Irish born construction workers to build those houses. There are currently around 160,000 construction workers in the country but to more than double the houses currently being built, you would need an extra 100,000 workers at least.

You mentioned young Irish construction workers in Australia, but you're probably talking about 5k or something.

Our government gave an amnesty 2 years ago to everyone in direct provision no matter how laughable their story was, while reiterating they wanted to give every asylum seeker the keys of their own pad after 4 months.

Numbers have snowballed since.

Our government decided to pay full welfare to Ukrainians which is multiples of what other European countries offered.

Clowns.

Have you a link to where building 50,000 houses over a decade will solve the the crisis and what metrics are used?

Have you a suggestion of where we would put 100,000 skilled workers for the first two years.

It would take 2 years to build 100,000 houses to accomadate these people and is that factored into the decade time period?