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

SF are falling in polls. There is an outside chance FFG could get back into government yes.

But in no way can this be seen as a boost to the anti-refugee protests....it's nothing but bad publicity. Those on social media talking about "justifiable anger" are doing them no favours either, makes it sound like they approve of the arson attacks.

There was fellas protesting the last month outside it, strange that they didn't tell them a month ago.

Even the slightest threat, an inkling, of a house to be given to immigrants is enough of an excuse to get it torched. That's where we are now. The government is so out of touch with the publics feeling on this.

Their mantra, "this is not us. This is not who we are. Not in our name". Well that is us. This is who we are. Because it's what happens when NGOs and the government don't listen to the public.

Ps. I don't condone burning buildings. Its wrong.

Frankly it just shows direct provision centres were actually the best of a bad lot in accomodation for asylum seekers.

All we have now is Fianna Fail and Fine Gael voter's getting their old run down hotels, pubs and B and B's getting nice juicy private contracts and probably costing more than the old system.

Own door accomodation? If you think the burning of derelict hotels is bad imagine what would happen if swaths of new estates with A rated homes were going to asylum seekers? Imagine the housing crisis was over, every Irish person has their own home or cheap realistic rents, you don't think think we'd be getting 2/3/4 times the amount of applicants if that little gem got out?

Best I could support is own door modular apartments in a centre/camp sorta thing like Ukrainians are getting to discourage piss takers.

That's all providing we start to do a France on it and immediately return anyone to same destination without documentation. Quick processing and especially 1 appeal and you are returned to whatever airport/nation you arrived here from if you fail

It was advised 2 or 3 weeks ago it was for homeless Irish

They can call me what they want. One good thing is people are so fed up and can see wood from the trees in the last few years. You know full well a large amount of people agree with you. Look at the Irish Times poll couple months back. The far right label is already old hat and it never worked in the first place.

Funny thing was authorities and immigration supporters from the left to the right had plenty of times to actually listen but in stupidity and arrogance labelled everyone a racist and instead of implementing simple common sense policies we are at the stage where building are being burnt out.

They have past form in telling the locals exactly this and then sneaking lots of single males into accomodation in the middle of the night, so I can understand skeptism.

Unfortunately hardly anyone trusts the Irish government anymore on this, they've lost all credibility.

Another thing is the utopian ideal of mass immigration not being a issue is rapidly being exposed to the general public and it's supporters can't paper over the cracks theyd have gotten away with up until the last few years.

Just look at the political stage in Sweden of all places, their little utopian ideal and how it's results are turning everyday voters. Look at Wilders who were told was a laughing stock and would never get more than a few racists and islamophobes supporting him.

Even little oul Ireland, even the financial side of things that was always brought up is being laid bare. Too much immigration and housing, healthcare and policing barely able to keep up. Irish and EU citizens struggling to make rent and bills seeing new arrivals even ones here to work driving down wages and rents and everything else going up. Not to mention if locals are on the housing list and see refugees getting that new a rated council build. Nah lads that's not gonna pass anymore, people are too angry and fed up and it's only getting worse

I've said it before, hand out a few hundred thousand visas for IT, financial and other decent income professions, I mean ones that are reasonably staffed. Let's drive down David the accountants wage from say 50k to 35k seeing as there will be plenty willing to do their job. Paul the programmer who's used to good salary and benefits who's now told take a nice pay cut cause they can hire 2 lads from India or Russia for his wage

You'll see attitudes changing fairly sharply

Do you think it would have stopped it. Would people believe them.

People setting fire to buildings is on the people who set fire to them not what is or not said

Again, we see a local backlash against an immoral, bitterly unpopular process.

Again, I find it hard to mourn the loss of an empty building in the context of young women being butchered more brutally than any animal in broad daylight, men being decapitated in their own homes and a foreigner wading into a group of toddlers swinging a knife. All unprecedented crimes carried out by people who should not have been in the country in the first place.

Again, where decent people are demonised, marginalised and ignored, they take drastic action.

The Irish nation has a history of direct action against a ruling regime which is hostile to it; which privileges outsiders and outside interests above it at its obvious reduction, damage and expense.

I see the current unrest as a continuation of that tradition.

A conspiracy? Possible, basic government propaganda is now a conspiracy is that ye are resulting to? I remember when people who questioned the percentage of households the gov claimed had paid their water charges were conspiracy theorists, we saw how that turned out didn't we?

I remember people on here who suggested the government would ignore and run rough over small communities with housing asylum seekers were conspiracy theorists, then the department started sending in buses in the night or very early hours.

It was literally reported in the press two weeks ago that the building was earmarked for homeless Irish families:

Setting up protests outside any premises the Government has earmarked for these single men is the best way communities can make their feelings known.

Despite what some on here and certain Government Ministers think there is nothing wrong with setting up a blockade as long as it remains peaceful.

I don't know if its true or not that Ringsend was for homeless families but burning down stuff is never the way to protest about it.

Do you mean a protest, a picket, or a blockade now?

Because there is plenty wrong with a blockade