No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

Great to hear its the only thing that will improve house supply. The rest doesn't matter it will be worked out. But if you don't have the trades people you can't build. The only fear I have is people stay away from the harder trades ie blocklaying and plastering and create a bottleneck there👍

Electrical is a trade that will not become redundant. Good tips Carroll. See some time ago MTU in Tralee were looking for people to train as wind turbine technicians.

Great trade... Good luck to him

Except it's not thousands of scammers, majority of these people are escaping from terrible situations. People "losing" their passports are doing so to avoid deportation, understandable.

There are a group of people who would like us to believe that we are importing nothing but rapists and murderers, and vilifying any male under the age of 40. But the stats don't back this up. In the 22 years between 2000 & 2022 3 Irish woman were murdered by foreigners, all European citizens. In the same period 6 foreign women were killed by Irish men.

It's scare mongering of the highest degree and a classic tactic of making people afraid and suspicious of another different cohort. Dividing through fear and stopping people from having empathy for humans who have fled god knows what to get here. The pictures and videos from Roscrea should make you feel ashamed to be Irish, threatening and intimidating woman and little children. It would be despicable if it was done to grown men nevermind vulnerable women and kids.

Hopefully it's a turning point in how we treat visitors here.

Having said all that, the lack of a coherent refugee policy from our government is an absolute disgrace, as is the policy of direct provision. Give these people a pathway to visas and becoming integrated into Irish society. The absence of this has left the vacuum for the likes of Micheal O'Keeffe and other racist scumbags to fill

Have seen an odd WhatsApp video of foreign men coming in and doing stuff they shouldn't. Yes Irish men do the same but they already born here, we don't need to be taking in new trouble makers. Plenty are geuine, plenty are not. Statistic or no statistic.

Whoever Paul is, he doesn't know a lot about farming, as he's attacking the wrong end of the cow.

I fully agree that climate change mitigation measures should be fair throughout all society. Yes, methane is a low hanging fruit and is a way of buying time. Fossil fuels are the culprit. Cap those oil/gas wells that are emitting massive amounts of methane as a by product, should be one of the first moves.

Sure you could say that about any trade couldn't you? Its not hard to turn a screwdriver to terminate a fixture but that doesn't mean there's not a lot of skill to it. Same way it's easy tighten a compression fitting on a tap, or fit a pipe.

As for E&I, massive wait times for phases, up to 20 months for phase 2, I'd not let the comments above put anyone off regarding pulling cable and fitting tray, any good lad with an interest and a bit of cop on will get on just fine. You won't get a start in E&I unless with a big contractor like Suir, Jones ETC

Ok. I'm not even going to engage with such wilful blindness. One of us is right, and time will tell. Hopefully it's you but I don't think it will be.

Try again, not very clever, esp given the poster's profession.

130K refugees, yes a small number have committed awful crimes, but that doesn't mean we blame the rest. I'd rather have most of those refugees than the absolute scum who burn down buildings and public transport or intimidate those already fleeing persecution in the name of saving Ireland from the 'Foreigners'. Disgusted to see so many Neanderthals surrounding and screaming at a a Guest house locally which was full of women with young children.

14 likes now - great to see some of us still have some compassion, it's not all that long ago that many Irish were refugees.

Some of the posts above honestly belong in the conspiracy theories forum.

Can't figure out why we didn't bring in a thousand Ukranians every 3 months and train them with our arm forces like the UK instead. Our rangers are very well trained. Be a bigger benefit to Ukraine in de long run

Does compassion have any limits?

If 130k refugees is ok, is 250k? Is 400k?

The multinationals are seriously peed off with housing here as foreign staff required won't relocate here now. Due to tax changes last week half our tax competitive advantage that attracts them evaporated overnight. It may get bumpy!

With our crazy welfare rates we will have no issues attracting endless refugees.

https://www.businesspost.ie/news/new-corporate-tax-rate-has-halved-irelands-competitive-advantage-for-fdi-says-oecd/

There was a big protest back last summer in the local village here when there was Ukrainians to be moved in. They were brought in anyway and put in 2 different premises in the village.

A week before Christmas they got notice that they were all being moved out of 1 of the premises and out of the village within a few days. There was another protest to keep them there then!

The majority of them fitted in well in the local community and the kids were settled in the local schools and getting on well there too so the locals are happy to have them there now and want them to stay. Some of them ended up being moved but the majority were allowed stay.

It certainly did confuse some of the local TD’s and councillors when they were getting phone calls of complaints about them being moved from the same people that were complaining they didn’t want them there a few months previously!