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

Other than the tweets, why are people blaming Roderic for all this? It's his job to house them, given the numbers coming in he's doing a pretty good job. Surely it's hard to argue with that. The blame should be focused on Helen.

Are they coming because of his tweets, or our useless immigration system?

Both. I’d harbour a guess that we are seen as soft touch internationally. When the Ukraine war broke out we had to scream the loudest that we were giving the mostest. I’m sure other potential applicants looked at this and said I’ll have some of this. Look at the numbers from Nigeria. At O’Gorman had the good sense to want that country on the safe list. But the best justice minister of modern times thought otherwise.

They arrived into Ireland at the same time as women and children asylum seekers. The state offered accommodation to the women and children, but not to the men (claiming there is none available). The government could easily have a scenario where women and children were sleeping in the tents on the streets and in the fields, but would clearly be terrified of the bad publicity and the backlash.

No, no, you don't understand this is all the green parties fault and if we just give Fianna fail and fine gael one more chance they will surely be different.

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What do you mean untrue?

"Hundreds of international protection applicants had been in a makeshift camp outside the International Protection Office on Mount Street for months. They were taken by bus to alternative accommodation - understood to be other tents - on Saturday morning."

Coming in ahead to build the house n earn the money in high powered job dont ya know

If the government are so inept at providing housing and health care to the citizens and people who moved here then they have to grow balls and eat humble pie . Tell the other ministers and dignitaries of other countries that we haven’t the capacity to provide shelter to refugees . The fcuking politicians and governmental structures are so inept . We’re a joke of a country .

If you are on a lifeboat built for five people and you offer twenty people a lift - you are not a hero, you are not compassionate, you are an idiot and it's your fault if everyone drowns.

Would you accept though that there are misguided volunteers and also NGOs trying to encourage them to stay.bdelf preservation and all that.

I would think they're being encouraged to stay on. I'd also believe the NGOs are fighting their corner to keep them here.

If someone is coming from a place where civilians are being harmed or where the situation is that they are living in poverty and malnutrition I can't see myself closing the door. There has to be some humanity shown towards people in that situation.

I don't have the answer to how to accommodate and financially support them while keeping adequate resources for everyone else unfortunately.

I'm completely against any individual who protests outside a place that is housing these people. Protest outside the local government/council building if you want to but don't form a mob outside a building housing people who likely left very bad conditions to try to make a better life for themselves. If I see you in a group outside one of these accommodations I don't care what you have to say, you are already in the wrong.

There are many ways to protest without making innocent people fear for their safety so pick any of those.

Liberal Swedish politician who 'turned Right-wing' apologizes for her ‘refugees welcome’ stance and calls it her ‘greatest shame’

Over a third of Sweden's population now has a foreign background, that figure was 11% n 1987. Approximately 20% of Sweden residents have non-European and non-Western ancestry. 

The great repl.... She made her bed. other people suffered. F*ck 'er

Some of this cohort and their advisors seem to be extremely poor at assessing situations properly.

McEntees thinking is so simplistic - as if the problems will dissappear upon handing out citizenship. This is a prime example of why we have to change our politics as a country. She should not have the position she currently has.

I'm astounded by some of the things that come out of this Govt. On one too many occasions I've been left thinking- they can't be this incompetent can they?? And given them the benefit of the doubt.

But they are. Really really poor performers and calibre of politicians.