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

Can you name any country in Europe that is taking active steps to stop its population from growing? It seems a bit bonkers - many countries are struggling with ageing populations, a forthcoming pensions timebomb, actual depopulation etc and yet people in Ireland are urging the Govt to take radical steps to halt population growth.

And doctors are leaving the country in droves and when you're giving out medical cards to any Tom Dick and Harry who shouldn't be in the country, you'll be waiting weeks, months for an appointment and in the end you may never get one

School places will be hard to get as they'll priorities asylum seekers over Irish

You go to the local pharmacy and waiting ages and ages because you have asylum seekers who don't have a spec of English and the poor old Pharmacist trying their best but getting no where

Ireland is full, it's just full to effing brink

When the Irish government, and successive Irish governments through their policies and actions deemed that a one-taxpayer household is less desirable than a triple-payer household we lost the opportunity of population self-replacement level.

What increases to child benefit have been awarded in the last decade? Answer is SFA.

Why is our government paying GPs €450 to dispense abortion pills whereas they are paid €250 to care for a pregnant woman?

Where are the active steps to help the indigenous population from growing, let alone remain static, coming from the current administration?

I wouldn't disagree with any of your points, but all of this suggests that it is successive FF and FG governments who have messed up. Identifying 'immigration' as the problem is surely flawed - most problems have come about through poor long term strategic planning and bad decision making, not the amount of immigrants who have arrived.

These contracts won’t be ending any time soon. They’ll just roll over year after year.

Seaside town most local to me took in some of the first Ukrainian refugees this time 2 years ago. Soon after these establishments stopped taking tourist bookings completely and closed the public bar and restaurant. There’s no sign of that ending.

Only a skeleton staff required too.

a tale of window shopping for the most loving country:

"The men, who are both in their 20s and give their names as Ahmed and Ahmadullah, were helped by other men already here, all asylum seekers. The two arrived on Monday after a “long journey”, having come via the United Kingdom."

They chose Ireland “because Irish people are very loving”.

https://archive.ph/Qs70S

Obviously being coached to say these things to pull at the heartstrings,

The guy who has broken bones in his foot from being tortured back home, decided while he was on cruches to hovel thousands of miles across the world, more like fell off the back of a lorry,

Some people will believe anything,

then why throw fuel on the fire.?

Because we are a softer touch than the UK and we have a higher acceptance rate of AS claims. So they are going where they stand the best chances of being successful AND where they'll get the best deal.

This is entirely the governments doing, but I also don't trust civil servants not to engage in a rubber stamping exercise.

Our goose is well and truly cooked.

You don't think more or less unconstrained inward migration puts a strain on housing and healthcare?

This is Ireland. Once there's Irish tax payer contracts in the mix, transparency and accountability is null and void.

We're spending billions(setting aside 5.5 billion alone on Ukrainians), some limited companies are making a fortune. We'll continue to allow people to self deport and the crisis continue, it's a win win for everyone!

we are a soft touch but also we have an obsession with been the good student of the class on an international stage. We are Spending billions on short term solutions while we can’t provide enough school places for kids with authism. I’ll know the pro immigration posters here will say how is that related, it’s the governments fault etc. My point being we can spend all this money no problems making instant millionaires out of hotel owners but we can’t do this for irish born citizens. we can’t solve these problems.