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

Puffer jacket on that lad on the left looks expensive. Infact those 3 lads look positively MIDDLE CLASS people.

They have resources.

I'd hazard a guess those 3 in the video are not going to be scrubbing toilets.

Not without consequences though. Ireland can of course walk away from its refugee commitments but it would be a very bad look for the country, especially when nearly every other EU state in western Europe is not doing this.

Also, what excuse could we use to do it? We're with of the richest countries in Europe and have a booming economy. Using the housing crisis would hardly wash - quite a few EU states are undergoing a housing / accommodation crisis at the moment, we're not the only ones.

If these gentlemen are Ukrainian citizens, they must be deported immediately and sent back to Ukraine to join the armed forces and repulse the Russians. Do their duty as citizens.

Mind you, Dwyer is hardly unbiased - is this video genuine?

It would look bad,

But we can walk away imposes new rules of our own

Look at the difficulties the UK are having in trying to get away from their refugee commitments. Not even a member of the EU and yet they admit that trying to get out of longstanding refugee treaties is a massive / onerous task. There's talk that they might even have to leave the ECHR, which they have been a signatory to for 70 years, before they could 'legally' stop admitting refugees to the country.

He's a scumbag but he's at least Asking questions and getting answers other so called real journalists are afraid to

I’ve never heard of him. Don’t even know what citizen journalist is. But i couldn’t imagine Kevin Doyle asking a question like that. Maybe that’s what’s wrong with all of this, the wrong people asking questions because the right people are afraid too.

Those 6 gentlemen are taking up 6 places that they have no right to.

We could hold a non-binding referendum on withdrawing from say, the 1951 Geneva Convention, similar to Brexit.

There are reams of material to work with insofar as campaign material for a yes vote.

Once that is in place, we would have the democratic legitimacy that the other side lacks.

Removing the offending legislation from our own statue books will probably bring us into conflict with the EU. But I don't believe the EU would relish being in a position of having to coerce Ireland into accepting people that the people of Ireland don't want. That would be a huge optics disaster for them. So at that point either the EU has to amend it's rules, or coerce Ireland. Not sure how that will play out - but you can be sure that there will be other countries in the EU that will join and support us.

Bring on Marine Le Pen!

If you go to the convention and it’s signatories on the UN website, loads of countries have caveats attached outlining who they wouldn’t accept

This is what I find most galling, the absolute distain they show to the public, i.e. Let's just keep repeating the same soundbites until we have them all brainwashed. To be fair it works on a fair amount of people. It seems like the vast majority can be made to believe anything once its repeated often enough.

When once in a blue moon some journalist will ask an uncomfortable question, they just waffle and answer a totally different question that wasn't asked to avoid answering it.

Like today on the radio McEntee completely avoided answering the question on the very low refusal rate and started waffling that there are a lot of myths around asylum, suggesting that this is one of them without outright saying this particular fact is not true.

Some uncomfortable facts for these spin merchants:

Everyone is absolutely not vetted. You cannot vet somebody who is lying about their identity.

Around 8% of asylum applications are refused after appeal. Compare this to France with a 92% refusal rate.

In 2022 precisely zero people were returned to an EU country in which they first claimed asylum under the Dublin Regulation. In 2021 it was 1.

These statistics are all available on Eurostat, an official EU website so if this is misinformation then the EU has been infiltrated by the far right who are publishing lies in the official statistics.

The acceptance criteria needs to be much tougher and they need to start deporting. They managed to deport a few thousand a year decade ago somehow so people saying this is not possible may also have succumbed to the far right and may be spreading misinformation.

They deport plenty currently around 40% of failed asylum seekers...

Deport very few made that up yourself???