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

In the case of Georgians, Albanians and Nigerians, you check their passports and then send them home.

Voting independents may be the best strategy. Some of them appear to actually care about their constituents. Cram the dail full of independents and maybe there could be a chance for Ireland.

Sinn Fein would be an absolute waste of a vote. They have started making noises about wanting controlled immigration ( only because of upcoming elections) and they immediately temper it with " the Irish went all over the world"

Believe me Sinn Fein would be useless.

"The Victorian building off Clyde Road and adjacent to Herbert Park was used as a nursing home up to 2020. It had until recently been owned by Richmond Homes which put the property on the market for €7 million in September, just months after securing planning permission for a controversial 64-unit Build-to-Rent (BTR) scheme.

In a briefing document for public representatives issued this week, the department said the building was now owned by Goldstein Property Irish Collective Asset Management and leased by Burvea Unlimited Company on a five-year lease"

So a Build-to-Rent has been dropped in favour of accommodating Asylum Seekers. Yet another two finger solute from the government towards those that elected them.

The forecasted 15,000 AS per year is not driven by moral ethics, but capitalism. At this stage, anyone defending this mess is either financially incentivised, or not worth the time of day.

Repubicanism in Ireland has always been pro Palestine, there have been Palestinian flags flying at Sinn Fein and IRA rallies and commemorations since the start of the PIRA.

It's a view that has seeped into everyday thinking in this country. They view Palestine as somehow the same as Ireland and Israel are The same as the big bad Brits.

also Sinn Fein are cheerleaders for all terrorist organisations that they consider ' freedom fighters '

Oh God yeah, but if be fairly sure that was ordered from the actual leaders of her party.

once an ally of terrorists, always an ally of terrorists.

Eastern European doctors and engineers not only don't come here anymore, some of them who were here for years are going back, all because of the housing cost and shortage.

We’ll be lucky to have a nursing home left in 20 years at this rate

That's disingenuous claiming 500,000 living at home are homeless. They're not.

I don't see where it was claimed they're homeless?

Not sure if related, another fire(no mention of whether it was to be used for immigrants), unused national school in Tipperary - https://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2024/0104/1424748-ferthard-arson/

Would all of those 500,000 be living at home if the option to have their own dwelling was available?

The idea that the homeless figures of 13k are a true representation of how many people are unable to house themselves is an absolute exercise in spin by the authorities.

I know people who are desperate to leave home but can't even find a room in a shared rental.

Grown adults can't build and develop romantic relationships in these situations, peoples lives are passing them by.

However the homelessness crisis is framed by the officialdom of Ireland the truth is much worse and far more damning.

We have figures relating to people in crisis situations around the 13k mark, the actual demand for accommodation far outstrips that number and we all bloody well know that to be the case, all of us who aren't adherents to whatever "be kind" adenga de jour it is at any given time.

In other news the grass is green.

Irish people have always been able to form relationships, get married have kids and live in their own houses. Until now.

The majority of people haven't historically stayed at home because rent is dead money, saying so trivialises very real problems people are facing.

Ah yeah, but that's personal choice. Mum and Dad will put up with me if I give them a few quid a week. Grand, if that's what you're into.

However, we now have the daft situation highlighted in the news a few days ago of nurses and doctors etc., moving back to Germany and Spain to live and flying into to Dublin to work and staying in student nurses digs on site that haven't been used in donkeys years. Why? Good old lack of housing.

Maybe read the post again and edit your post.

Just more lies and misinformation.

It was never like this.

There is a shortage of housing to purchase or rent, the idea that "it's doable in house shares" is possibly the most disconnected thing I've seen posted on this site in years.

What adult wants to live their life sharing an apartment or house with random people with absolutely no security whatsoever? What scope for a normal existence does that have exactly?

And even for those who are saving "like a lunatic" whilst living at home, the housing market is so limited and cut throat there's absolutely no guarantee of them being able to make a purchase when they get mortgage approval, getting outbid or dealing with unscrupulous estate agents and sellers, most people lucky enough to be in that position will be dealing with a level of stress they never would have expected.

Into this maelstrom of misery we're pouring tens of thousands of people from outside the state who incidentally are even more vulnerable than the people already in the country and expecting there to be no ill effects.

But yeah, all those people in their parents houses in their 40's are all just there because they're comfortable and possibly lazy.

Nope, not naieve. Just because the current shower in office have mismanaged things is no excuse to throw out our obligations to Refugees and Asylum seekers. As I've said before, it isn't their fault that successive govts. here have failed to invest in the people or the infrastructure.

Look we care about Irish people first and their needs. The rest can stay away, you have that clear?? Unless they have work permits. Away with them.

This discussion is about the effect ls of immigration into the state.

In relation to accommodation, which is in severely short supply, brining large numbers of people into the state is demonstrably unwise.

The issue of the housing crisis is not going to be easy to solve, adding extra people into the mix should be handled very carefully as a result, which is not happening right now.

I would suggest that your assertion about people being comfortable at home and unwilling to put themselves in a position to procure their own accommodation is extremely presumptuous and trivialises a large number of peoples lived experience based on your own limited anecdotal evidence.

I'm a similar age to you, and I do own my own home but that doesn't give me the right to scoff at people in a less fortunate position to me, I know people my age who have slogged hard and scrapped together the resources to buy a house and I know others who have done all of that and have not been fortunate enough for that to happen for them. Nobody is under any illusions that it is possible to sit back and let their elderly parents look after them indefinitely, the idea that it is a lifestyle choice for a significant number of people is frankly bizarre and comes across as condescending.

It's debatable how much of the housing crisis is caused by immigration. Non nationals tend not to buy houses or apartments, not unless their clear intention in advance is to remain in the country for ten years or more (or perhaps forever). So whilst they are undoubtedly adding to pressure on the existing rental market, they are much less of a factor when it comes to people buying houses and apartments and taking out mortgages etc.

Which in turn means that prospective homeowners are not emigrating because of inward migration, but because of the balls up the government has made of the housing market.