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

Phil Hogan absolutely did not stick to his task around Irish Water. He set up the superquango and then did a runner for Europe. He offloaded the Irish Water debacle to Labour as soon as he could and then pretended he knew nothing about it. I am proud to have protested against the Irish Water setup and plans by FG to nationalise our precious resource.

Irish Water was setup in 2013 (Phil even destroyed the meeting minutes on the expensive setup). This is Phil in 2015.

EU Commissioner Phil Hogan on Irish Water: 'I don’t agree that there’s a mess... you'll have to ask Minister Alan Kelly' | Independent.ie

EU Commissioner Phil Hogan on Irish Water: 'I don’t agree that there’s a mess... you'll have to ask Minister Alan Kelly'

He completely washed his hands of it. Labour got destroyed in GE 2016 as a result. Greens will bear the brunt in GE 2024/25.

100% they will. See my previous post.

You are all getting fooled by blaming Greens and O'Gorman all the time. When they are gone, all that blame energy will have been wasted. All of this is sanctioned at cabinet. Who runs the cabinet?

Hogan did a runner for sure and for that alone, he should be despised as a politician. He and his ego was party to the wrecking of what was a sound idea, pay by use for water and sewage services. This was and remains good Green thinking. Let's hope it's brought back to the table sooner rather than later. Reduce consumption.

You would wonder at times if the green party all have some sort of split personalities.

We have one minister telling us we need to cut back on farming, reduce the number of cars on the road,reduce air travel and many more things to reduce our carbon footprint and be leaders in being green.

We have another minister promoting people coming here which means more food, more cars on the road, more air travel, building materials etc that will massively increase our carbon footprint.

These absolutely contradict each other and a school going child could tell you it makes no sense.

Yet we are paying these people to be leaders of the country, the sooner they are wiped out forever the better.

It's all gaslighting. We need skilled immigrants to work in our hospitals because our own nurses and doctors move abroad due to accommodation shortages.

Of course, nobody complains about the skilled immigrants as they are contributing.

The issue today, is the Refugees and Asylum Seekers, which are largely unskilled, not contributing and taking resources away from us.

Yes

Brid Smith on Newstalk this morning was asked by Ivan Yates what would she reply if her constituents asked her if she thought there was any limit on the numbers we can take in, say 250000 ?

Her reply (not exactly but pretty accurate) “I’d say all these men have strong arms and are willing to work building and remember most of the violence is carried out by Irish men”

No answer then

So what? It is irrelevant as you say. They come, they apparently have to be given accommodation, food and supports of some sort. They are either given their 'papers' and move into the general community or just melt away & move into the general community. Same result. That's what happens in practice.

We need standing camps, operated by the defence forces, to hold these people in while their applications are being processed. Then either given their 'papers' or returned to their native state. Simple isn't it?

Talk to the Labour Party - they supposedly represent workers and trade unions.

but noone is an open borders activist

Who is advocating? A small but very vocal group of self-righteous people swarming over social media and NGOs.

Mind boggles as to how the media trots out loopers like Smith on a regular basis

I think the answer is No then. It seems a very stupid reason for your referendum vote. Why don't you save the protest for the local elections which are on in June?

What will you folks spend your time at when O'Gorman is gone? All your energies seem to be focused on one man. Ye are easily fooled.

Ivana's only hope of retaining her seat in the Dáil is by out-wokeing the other woke candidates in the constituency.

FG foolishly rolled out the red carpet for her in the by-election, but I doubt that they'll be dumb enough to make the same mistake again.