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

Naw the compensation part would be using taxpayer money that would then disrupt prices within the rental market, that's where this goes.

Who wouldn't jump at the chance of having a few Algerian or Somali lads hanging about their house

Now's your chance libs...go for it

Not if the exclude landlords, hotels and other professional accommodation and just have it open to homeowners with a room to spare. This wouldn't impact on the rental market and may even free up properties currently being leased by government to house Asylum seekers and refugees.

Maybe it's just difficult for those outside Ireland to understand how bad a wealthy country like this can be at putting up buildings.

While it's a bit much to expect 100,000 accommodation units to be delivered in two years, it might be hard to believe our state doesn't have the capacity to deliver beyond a handful of prefabs and tents.

Hotels all over the west of Ireland now house refugees. Large parts of the planning process have been set aside to allow asylum seekers and refugees be housed. The construction sector is at full tilt, there isn't a builder in Ireland who isn't working and any ones of medium size or bigger are trying to get staff. A new Daft.ie rental index today shows double digit increases in rent in the majority of counties, with an average asking price of €1,823 across the country. Kids in several parts of the country can't get secondary school places. Over 150 people admitted to UHL recently couldn't get a bed.

If anyone thinks the current level of emigration can be sustained in the coming years they are not looking at reality. The emigrants might be the best people on earth, but the reality is the country cannot sustain what it has, let alone have hundreds of thousands more people arrive in the short term.

People trying to make it a left-right issue or about race, rather than about reality, are a scourge.

Or a novel idea would maybe be to close the doors, we have enough to worry about without adding more and more, we are at the stage of putting people in tents in the street for goodness sake

David McWilliams had a good article at the weekend suggesting the National Children's Hospital and the Metro North fiascos tell us that the Government itself is the problem, not immigration - very poor at big projects and long term planning.

Nothing new there, this has been the way here probably since the Celtic tiger era when money seemed to be no object, probably could have been before. The government/Public Service just do not seem to be able to properly plan and deliver projects on time or on budget. Now that could be down to too many cooks and the whole thing just gets bogged down.

You can already do this if the person has legal status to be here.

Alot of ukranians were/are housed this way.

I don't think closing the doors is the answer either but what I do think is that it should be made much harder for people to just rock up and say they want to claim asylum and then claim to have lost their documents somewhere between getting on a plane and getting to immigration control. We need to have the steps then for after that and that is not to house them but put them in a holding centre till there application is processed however long that may take. This centres should be purpose built and not take from any hotels or housing stock in the country.

As a lot of people have said on here, they are not against immigration and anyone who has jumped through the hoops to get here legally by going doing the visa route are very welcome and that is as it should be.

we have never been good at capital projects in this country.

So it is staying as IPA only?

Thas what they said

D Hotel says ‘child protection’ issues mean dual use ‘not possible’ Hotel rules out accommodating asylum seekers and tourists together after Taoiseach describes it as ‘the best solution’ for the town

It's as easy as 'closing the doors' is it?

Somebody tell the Americans, they're spending 25 billion per year trying and failing to 'control' their Southern Border.

Anyone surprised? I’m not.