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

The same fate that awaits the idiotic Greens hopefully.

Some of the other parties adopted the PD policies.

Yes, as we don't have exit checks, I don't think we can know for sure how many of the 140,000 are still here.

It seems to me that we need exit checks?

That has to be one of the weakest responses I've ever seen.

Both of those articles you shared, referring to the same report on sham marriages, have no mention of AS or any sort of IPA's whatsoever.

After that you've one case going back twenty years and these two cases you saw on RTE.

How do you get from those 3 people to 'the majority of asylum seekers'???

And O'Gorman never said most asylum seekers were bogus, he said in 2023 that 60% didn't meet the criteria.

Nobody can contradict that it is your stated opinion.

After that, it is just an opinion, and one with no supporting evidence or argument.

I was debating voting no in the upcoming referendum but Mr McDowell completely made up my mind here. This referendum could open such a big can of worms.

@MegamanBoo

Out of curiosity, whats your stance on Immigration to Ireland, is there any problems that you see with the current asylum process/amount of people arriving etc...? Genuine question and obviously should you like to give your view?

Asked the same question to Goldengirl and we agreed on most points but differ on some. Think its good we can find some common-ground

There is nothing that will convince me that giving a hotel over to house 500 IPAs is anything about helping humanity and humility and all about profiteering and money grabbing at a huge expense to tax payers.

There are now nearly 30,000 IPAs in this country alone. What a mess.

At no other point in my life in this country did I feel that we are spiralling to a dangerous place that we will never get back from. Again, what a mess.

What utter utter traitors this government are to my family and I. I just cannot fathom how my children will live a life of quality in this country in the future.

Why would you want to reverse a place a country has got to where it was actually nice to live here to basically a struggle for anything physiological. Especially for those who have worked hard to make it the country it was.

A family friend spent 38 hours in A&E recently and eventually left when not a single minute of care was provided for them. Is that where we have ended up in this country. Yuck, just yuck.

I spent a similar time in A&E a month ago. It was horrendous, completely full. They were calling 1 patient about every hour, and then calling names of people that had already left, probably due to exhaustion. Two roma couples came in, I had no idea which one of them was sick. The two men stretched themselves out on benches, fell asleep and snored away for a couple of hours and the women kept making video calls throughout the night, shouting down the phone. No-one could sleep with the noise. There were elderly people who I was feeling so sorry for and anger on their behalf, what a way to be treated after probably working and contributing all those years.

I have had chronic illnesses since 1996 and have been in and out of hospital over the years. Look, the health service was never perfect but at least I felt safe and the care was always excellent once admitted. I always had access to my GP but since covid, there is absolutely no more capacity.

I tried getting a GP for a suspected chest infection, and other problems last week. My own GP surgery was not answering the phone, I tried others in the area and several in town (Dublin) that accepts new patients - no luck. In the end, I had to use an online doctor, who told me to go to A&E...

I've said it before, the health system is crashing and as long as Leo and Co. keep the doors open to the world, our population will keep increasing and services will continue to be under severe pressure.

I don't care about international obligations, why can't the Government say no more and stand up to the EU and and co. - what's the worst that can happen. We get told off? That is already happening, who cares. We get fined? Surely any fines must be cheaper than spending millions on housing the world.

It's almost too late, we are being overtaken by the world right before our eyes and it seems there is nothing we can do about it.

Many problems in Ireland such as lack of access to hospitals, GPs and housing have been hugely exacerbated by immigration.

But people who want to avoid facing this reality seek to do so by claiming that people who acknowledge it are motivated by racism.

In reality almost no one but the worst kind of idiot blames the actual immigrants. It is the fault of people on election posters who put in place flawed immigration policies over 20 years.

I get the vibe there is massive concerns for the safety of that hotel locally.

I would say the main issue has been the lack of forward planning by FG and FF, far more than anything else. One can't treat a growing population as an "aberration" or a "problem" that somehow needs to be stamped out - countries that have population growth in the West are normally ones that are doing really well. It should have been obvious to anyone for the last 10 or 15 years that the Irish population would grow (and grow quickly), both through natural means and through immigration. Treating demand as the problem and not the lack of supply is a slightly flawed way of looking at things.

Imagine if he was the leader of a party now and ran enough candidates - He'd be Taoiseach