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

If you work 4 days a week, you lose your Job Seekers benefit and generally all ancillary supports. Infact, if you are going to be working any days at all, you have to report and check with the Department to see if you can keep any benefit.

We should do an asylum barge.

Keeps the AS safe from the war and persecution they are fleeing.

Creates an efficient provision of services to them.

Keeps them out of our housing and labour market.

Reduces risk of them leaving provision and disappearing among human traffickers.

You never know, he might train to be a GP in prison….

Less than 8% of those asylum seekers who have transfers actually transferred.

The number of Nigerians have increased here given that even if they have claimed asylum in the UK they cannot be returned . Ireland returns fewer than those in the EU than it accepts back for asylum .

https://gript.ie/dublin-iii-regulations/?ct=t(EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_5_17_2022_13_19_COPY_01)

Yes i imagine we could have like 4 of them, and maybe a another barge dedicated to exercise, language classes and little offices where the NGO's can rent for their swindles.

Could make it go Green to get some buy-in from you know who.

What about camps? They could live and work there. They'd be like work camps. Then, for successful asylum seekers we could have a special area where they are allowed live and we could get them to wear a symbol or something that wiuld make them recognisable, that way people would know they've had their asylum application accepted.

Sure why wouldn’t they come here, seeing as they get a reduced prison sentence for not speaking English. From the article:

”Judge Nolan said the headline sentence was in the region of eight to nine years, “by reason of the violence involved”, having taken into account the maximum penalty available to the court was 10 years.

Judge Nolan said Bah’s plea of guilty was “late” but “valuable”. He took into account that Bah was an African national who speaks French and as such, would have difficulty in prison because he has little English.

He jailed Bah for six years.”

Living here at least 3.5 years, as the attack took place in Sep 2020 (it’s not stated how long he was here at that stage), and still can’t speak English. I guess there’s no incentive to learn.

Also, this is the second time here in recent weeks someone has posted a link where the judge has handed down a reduced sentence for the guilty party as they don’t speak English, as they would have a hard time in prison. You’d wonder are they being coached by their legal team to claim to not speak the language?

Well they could work the barge - there'd be a lot of cleaning and stuff to be done. Your idea about a probation period has merit too.

the judge in question is the problem.

This guy, or some other representative, was on Newstalk this morning.

Said that estimated loss to the country this year due to reduction in tourism accommodation will be in the realm of 1.1bn euro.

1.1bn loss…5.5bn set aside for the Ukrainians this year

Fùcking crazy we never got Metrolink built with the cash we’re willing to throw around on other things

Could build tens and tens of thousands of houses for all that

A truly great post @smallbeef .

Bookmark this one folks - it's coming as sure as night follows day.

Heard Failte Ireland CEO on this morning - he was gung ho about tourism in Dublin and wealthy yanks coming to visit. But more or less admitted that elsewhere both domestic and international tourism is badly damaged. Something about compensation for businesses affected - message must be finally getting through with elections looming.

Great post - I'd agree.

It's scary how much unsustainable spending is being propped up by the FDI sector. If that golden goose ever takes flight, we are fcuked.

This Government has done nothing to support Irish indigenous industries, they have just spunked away, what is in effect, an FDI windfall-tax on whatever the social-media 'cause du jour' happens to be. A few years ago it was Covid-theatre and now it's refugees.

The billions lost to this showboating could have transformed Irish society for future generations. Imagine the investments in Health, Housing, Transport and Education which could have been made with the billions being frittered away.

The worst thing is, the only viable alternatives to this Government will likely be far worse.

I think we, and our kids, are facing into a very bleak future.

Great post. There was a very similar, thoroughly thought out and reasoned post on that weird little forum reddit Ireland and the comments were mind-boggling. The deflection and name-calling was atrocious.