Time for a zero refugee policy? - *Read OP for mod warnings and threadbans - updated 11/5/24*

If we have poor infrastructure and services, that is nothing to do with immigrants and refugees - that is totally down to bad long term planning by the government.

Two apartment blocks being built too in Drogheda, none of the rooms up for sale yet…….wonder where they will go.

Apartments across from the D Hotel are already for refugees. 

No hotel in the town as the other (Westcourt) is also for migrants!

and another hostel on 29 Laurence Street to hosts all IP applicants. Crazy.

I heard the owner of D Hotel is the Derby County FC owner aswell so not a local so couldn’t give a ****.

I presume Gov are happy to allow or tender due to struggling to find places in Dublin so using next best spot…..sure those doing everything to flee “war zones” must be on the commuter belt…..

It's really starting to look like these proposed centres do not exist and talk of them is nothing more than government propaganda.

Let's be honest, the government politicians cannot hold a secret, there are leaks left right and centre. Therefore, logically, the locations for these centres don't exist and in all likelihood there is not even an intention to build them or set them up anywhere.

Lots of hotels? There’s the Boyne Valley and the Glenside, which is well outside the town.

Edit: seen your retraction. Fair play.

Until there are no more hotel rooms available the government are afraid to say no to the EU and explain we can't take in any more refugees. Unfortunately they have decided our international obligations take precedence over our obligations to our own people, so its more important to look after economic migrants from the likes of various African nations, Georgia, Albania, Afghanistan while running down our tourist economy.

A lot of the hotels are being bought up by a small number of individuals with political connections. These individuals typically own and run multiple hotels in this way.

Also, I would be confident the contracts are written and agreed before the hotels are bought in a lot of cases, they just go live after the purchase. Guaranteed a lot will come out in the future about this 'process'.

Not sure who contacts who first but I'm pretty sure the conversation went something like this

Govt: We'll give to €80 per person per night

d Hotel: No thanks

Alright, we'll go to €110

Nah, you're grand

Look, if we can't get these rooms we'll look really bad with these guys in tents on the streets of Dublin

I know

€140 and that's our final offer

You're almost there

€160 then

Done

The EU has public tendering rules for any contract over 143k - 5.5m(the higher value for construction) depending on type, all these are way over so what exemption are they using that none of these are being publicly tendered and signed off to companies that are only weeks old in some cases.

THE UN’S REFUGEE agency has called on the Irish Government take “extraordinary measures” to end homelessness among asylum seekers and to take steps towards ending the use of emergency accommodation.

The government need to start buying new houses in housing estates to house all refugees. We have to do more for all these people from Africa etc. we need to look after all these people who have no connection to our country and allow them multiple appeals when their applications are rejected. We need to stop protesting. We need to remember the Irish went all over the world to work and must accept all who ask to come here. We need to do better :)

Probably setting up for Palestinians in their thousands,

What happens if the corporation tax goes puff?

Well the successful applicants are already on HAP and receiving social housing.

So I assume this means the queues have already been skipped.

What exactly are.the government playing at with this whole thing.

And nobody tell me this is humanitarianism, because there is one thing bloody obvious the way the government have behaved over the last decade with housing, health, etc. They don't give a **** about anyone.

Who is actually calling the shots here and for what reason.

None of this makes sense politically.