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

But again why are you determined they should be treated like prisoners?

But if it works and gets the number's down then why shouldn't we ,

Much smarter idea and it won't leave a traceable ID in a bin.

They are not prisoners. They shouldn't be locked up like prisoners.

But see, this is the problem and the conundrum. If we build big holding centres then great. But then what do you have? Well — you have openly advertised to the world that you have better capacity to hold refugees, right? And even if you could get away with making these holding centres into a ghastly dystopia where people live in abject misery, there is only so long you can hold them there. You can't effectively imprison people indefinitely.

You say yourself you don't have the answers, and that's absolutely fine. But what you have to reconcile yourself with is the fact that nobody really has the answers and nobody ever will. So the people who come with simple solutions to all this, the "just kick them out" types and the ones who think it's all an overnight fix if we can just simply get rid of the softy snowflake liberals and replace them with the cold common sense rationale of the Right should all be assessed accordingly.

Yeah, but who here is actually arguing that there have not been problems and shortcomings in the way this has been handled? But this is not a distinctly Irish problem — we are not the only ones who have had problems. Refugee numbers have risen across Europe.

It's also our first real taste of an issue like this and of this magnitude and yet people are banging on as if this has been and continues to be a long term permanent strategy rather than the fumbling and failing that arises when crises occur.

It's pure madness she wasn't sacked after the Dublin Riots.Just another feather in the incompetence of Varadkar and this government

Of course they won't be prisoners, they will be free to leave whenever they want.

A fifth of the world's refugees live in camps. 76% of the global refugee population are in poor to middling income countries — only 26% are in the first world. There are three and a half million refugees in Turkey alone and millions more spread across Pakistan, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda etc etc.

If the idea is to make Ireland unattractive for refugees.....well....good luck with that.

They were added after consultation with stakeholders, I'd love to know who these stakeholders are /were and where the transcripts of the meetings are

But other countries have them where's the ECHR

You don't speak for the Irish people on that.

Should’ve be a T.D. either. Just stepped into her father’s seat.

May he rest in peace.

The funny thing is though, even if the government built an internment camp or centre for refugees you would still have the same people on here moaning about it. Why so many single men at the camp? The camp has ruined the area. It's too close to schools. They're all economic migrants. Why did we build a a big centre to only show the world we had more capacity for hosting refugees? The refugees keep coming, the centre is clearly too pleasant we need to make it more squalid and brutalise those in it to send a message. The government had no plan about how long some people might be in this centre and now we have to house those that we can't keep in it forevermore.