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

We get that you want to stop all migration and you have no understanding of the impact that would have on our services and economy.

You are entitled to your opinion, of course. But I will leave it there as far as discussion is concerned.

What wont change is our ability to attract staff to work here from the EU, as much as you might wish it so.

I think there will be restrictions on Asylum migration in the future, but people from the EU and skilled folks with visa entry, absolutley not.

So its really a pipe dream you are harbouring which will never occur.

Hopefully it doesnt take you another 10 years to realise that.

And for anyone else quoting this post that says, "we arent talking about EU migrants or returning irish migrants, we are talking about asylum seeker restrictions only" thats not at all what this poster is saying.

They are advocating "decimation" of all migrants, including irish and EU citizens.

Yes we can but hope...🙄

Reading the article

"The Midland Tribune contacted the Garda Press Office for comment about the alleged incident. "Gardaí are investigating a number of alleged incidents which occurred on Limerick Street in Roscrea on Sunday evening, 18th February 2024."

"120 woman from the Roscrea area" , "standing in solidarity with every woman in Roscrea who had a run-in, or has been followed, or intimidated, frightened, or terrified to walk the local streets or walk on the bypass or go for a run". So there seems to be other incidents these woman are expressing concern and anger especially when promised more Gardai to the area but its only temporary.

Anyways sure there only a racist bunch just protesting for a laugh coz te foreigners...

Taking in 30k refugees makes sense for Denmark and they must be confident the same issues won't arrise From the previous ones. Do yourself a favour and research why the Scandinavian countries have turned their backs on refugees from outside Europe.

They literally protested the closing of their hotel a month ago. Weeks later this is the trade off, kids being flashed in their own home by people they're now paying rent for in said hotel.

But keep peddling your shite

From 2017:

You tried to say the same thing earlier in the thread about East Wall, and I was able to show that residents of East Wall had previously passed their concerns about crime in the area on to local councillors.

So this is your second serving of humble pie.

Which Irish community will you attempt to defame next, by falsely claiming that their real concerns over crime are only disguised racism?

So, the issue was the closing of their local hotel......fair enough......now those same people are protesting about a few 'incidents '

Riiiiiiiiight.....

Unbelievable, 120 woman have protested about multiple incidents, foreign or not it's insane some people in here are pessimistic but when a Imam says he got assaulted as a hate crime, then said he was robbed and then found his wallet and had no visible injuries on camera on his face is plastered all over the media. Even if there was an assault, it was a failed robbery but the media is having a field day lapping it up as something more sinister.

But those lying 120 woman/ children... insane

No worries, haven't watched it in years.

Watching it now. Just glad we have shows like this to highlight stuff like this.

Except declining to artificially increase the population at a rapid rate isn't "making the population smaller".

Increasing the demand-side when you have a supply problem is not a neutral action but in fact a way of boosting the scarcity and thus the value of the supply. It's a good business strategy for developers, landlords and other asset-owners if they have zero compunction about the social chaos their profiteering causes. More demand means less houses to go around and this boost prices or at least makes them slower to go down again.

I don't think anyone believes your claim to not understand how increasing demand affects the supply-side. Since it isn't difficult to grasp, you can only be playing dumb.

The mystery is why any normal person would want to increase demand in the teeth of a supply problem.

But you never explain your motives, you just bounce from one talking point to another and claim that other people have tainted motives (e.g. xenophobia).

Fair play I suppose for apologising, but I don't really care for it.

I have watched the proponents of this idiotic strategy deflect, ignore and use word games for long enough. A policy where defending it is literally using American right wing talking points from 20 years ago.

"They're o ly doing jobs that the [insert population type] won't do" as if people are not doing the jobs because they're lazy - not because you have to live in a direct provision centre or 15 to a house to make it viable.

"We need them to keep business sustainable" - not because the aim is to keep wages stagnant through over supply of labour.

People protesting the last potential revenue generating business in a struggling town, to be replaced with more dependants on local systems? Nah, **** them, sure they're only a bunch of auld racists anyway.

Hundreds of millions into billions of public money being handed into private hands in the name of humanitarianism - when has this government shown that they give any **** about people on the ground and why should this be any different. It's a scam and the refugees or the asylum seekers or whatever they're calling them this week sure as fuk aren't getting that money.

Companies running private prisons in the U.S. creaming it here contracting to run services for these "temporary" direct provision centres.

Business owners converting old buildings into holding centres and getting millions per month to host 5-15+ people to a room with minimum labour overheads.

NGOs and other organisations keeping this going as long as possible because if they ever solved the problem they purport to care about, they'd be out of a job.

You think you are fighting against right wing policy - this is right wing policy. Those people.are economic units, to be shifted around to make a bit more wealth for some already wealthy individual before being moved on to whoever next is in line for the money train. It is how the direct provision system has worked for the last two decades, and especially for the last 10 years.

It is an attempt to keep a broken system going for as long as possible through importation of cheap labour, and to skim as much wealth out of the public coffers before the whole thing breaks proper.

And it will break eventually, and then we'll all be equal, natives and newcomers, because we'll all be equally fuked.

All except the ones running the sham. They'll bugger off to some other idiot country to do the same all over again.

But you're speaking as if it is deliberate government or state policy to make the population bigger than what it currently is. There's no real evidence of this or that that the state has ever tried to manipulate the size of the population at any point in the last 30 or 40 years.

We've had population growth and depopulation at various points since the mid 1980s. It's all part and parcel of immigration and emigration flows. Very few countries in the world go down the route of social engineering and trying to create an optimum population figure.

Some on this thread wouldnt welcome them back anyway.

No migration allowed, remember.

It’s a sad reflection that this issue is so divisive. Surely we can all agree that a limited amount of immigration is a very good thing? And that there should be limits for the sake of sustaining services and forward planning?

I think it’s all become a bit emotive, I can’t really believe a thoughtful person would believe unlimited immigration is a very good idea.

I really do hope the Roscrea incident is not what it seems to be, for everyone’s sake.