Explosion in Dublin City centre hostel

Returned to his home country so he can jump on the plane and come back the next day? We'd basically just be giving him a free flight home for a brief holiday there.

Why would he bother presenting as an asylum seeker? He's an EU citizen and can freely travel within the EU. Also, what does previous mean? EU citizens aren't vetted before entering another EU country and even EU citizens with criminal records are allowed travel within the EU.

The people screaming about vetting usually cannot gain employment in our full employment economy

You are saying he should have have been deported because he accessed homeless services. Makes no sense.

Thats nothing to do with my point. There is no reason at all for deporting him solely because he accessed homeless services.

It is off topic. Not sure what asylum seekers have to do with Ezu citizens. If you're fleeing from prosecution or fleeing a war zone are you really going to wait around months to wait for a passport to come through? I think that's a fairly ridiculous. Imagine people in Ukraine who didn't have passports the day Russia invaded. "Oh well, better just wait here a few months and wait until my passport is issued before leaving." At the end of the day, the law is the law and all Europeam countries have signed up to these laws. I don't think they will be changing anytime soon.

There are other threads that discuss asylum seekers and refugees.

They have been doing so for a long time and nobody has come up with a solution.

We have heard no new information about the subject of the thread overnight.

Wrong.

Freedom of movement in the EU (citizensinformation.ie)

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Imagine if these rules were actually enforced? We all know they are not being enforced on any scale.

Yes, and yes.

Ireland is not obliged to cater for the world's poor. We already pay a handsome amount in Foreign Aid and now EU funds to assist other nations in bother.

It's one or the other. Paying other nations or looking after their citizens here. Can't do both.

That's not what I said at all. I think it's an unenforceable law, not a bad one in principle.

It sounds good in theory: if an EU citizen cannot support themselves within 90 (or even 180) days of arrival, then we send them home. Simples. But then you think about all the practical implications. eg

Next week (after a holiday with the family) they hop back on a plane, and the 90 day clock starts ticking again.

Their kids in Ireland are traumatised because they lose access to their parent(s). Maybe the kids can be send back with them, maybe they can't (if the parents home country has a different approach to foreign birth registration).

The rules apply equally to a person who has never worked, and a person who has lived and worked here in a professional job for 30 years. Even to ones who got injured in the course of working here and cannot work anymore due to it.

They also apply to adults born elsewhere in the EU but who came here as very small children and have never lived elsewhere. They have a passport from where they were born. Some even have Irish parents - but those parents never registered them as a foreign-birth. And due to crappy Irish record keeping, they cannot get the birth-cert needed to prove their parents were Irish (yes, this case does happen, including to the man who snores in my bed!).

The "corner cases" like that go on and on. So the law is effectively bunk, because of all the exceptions.

That doesn't prove anything though. He has been in the state 8 years.