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

I've been passing it on a regular basis for months, and what shocks me the most is who didn't see this coming.

Is it senior civil servants within IPAS? Is it politicians? Or perhaps it's both.

At first, it was tents to the side of the IPO office and the back. Then they spread to the front of the IPO office. Then they spread along the street but stayed on the IPO side. Then they popped up on Grattan street, then they doubled up on Grattan street. Now they're on both sides of the road on Mount Street.

I'm not some heartless bstrd either, I don't blame the people with the tents. But who decided on a policy to continue allowing entrants, to continue making appointments for an increasing volume of people, knowing there was absolutely nowhere to put them?

Who saw the first few tents, and ploughed on with the policy as normal?

Now, we're at a point where the State on one hand-or a group of people employed by the State- have/has allowed this to happen and now, State departments need to solve the issue that was was created by State officials/politicians in the first place.

from seperate parties too. Do I smell the lead up to a GE.

Can we give them Irish passports on condition that they go back to the UK or elsewhere in Europe?

The IPAS offices might need to move out of the city soon. Are the tents there because the offices are there, or do the migrants just want to be in the city anyway?

Sure we'll give them a house while we're at it.

Nvm people that are contributing to our country for years and struggling to achieve that.

There's a nice park up the road from the IPO, (Merrion Square) they'll soon be pitching their tents there.

I was wondering why they haven't done that already. Maybe the denizens of Merrion Square have more clout than the residents and businesses in Mount Street. Or maybe just being pitched outside the offices is more beneficial to their cause for accommodation and processing.

That's the reason I wondered if the IPAS would/should move elsewhere. Where I don't know, but out of the city centre anyway, maybe to one of the office blocks in an industrial estate on the fringes of the city or something. But that would probably be looked on as discriminatory to the businesses there and residents nearby.

Few solutions really.

They won't move and if the authorities attempt to move them you'll have the NGO's out clinging to the tents for dear life..

The whole idea of the migrants being camped there is as a protest so they'll get attention first from IPAS, i.e. own door accommodation, payments, medical cards etc. and status to bring family members over too..

We may not be getting replaced, but our already scarce resouces are being spread thinner and thinner.

This country cant process sudden increases in population, regardless of who it is and whether we want them or not.

Recipe for chaos.

Pass the sick bag. What are we like giving the Tories a victory just before an election. They are milking it for all its worth because they've nothing else.

Could we not have even waited until after their elections?

We've "rang the dinner bell for the world's asylum seekers" - hard to argue about.

Only NGO that comes to my mind is the one Nick Henderson who doesn't seem to realise there is a housing crisis going on in the country where 1000's of Irish citizens cant buy or even rent without having any sort off life. Who are paying tax and keeping the country going, like their parents before them. No, Nick just thinks we should prioritise these men with 'homes'. Regardless if we didn't have a housing crisis, the first priority of any country is to its citizens. Nick needs to realise this.

The "look everybody the number of Migrants crossing is down thanks to MYYY Rwanda plan!" out of the Tory toe rags will be in full force in the coming weeks.

The UK better not fall for Rishi and his shyte.

It can be stopped by getting the EU to go after those involved.

Pressure on Rwanda.

Pressure on the ferry companies.* (This can be done by both govt, and you, the public).

Pressure on the 'Rwanda plan' legislation.

Pressure on the UK.

or failing all that, by making ourselves equally difficult for UKs asylum seekers. So they gain nothing by coming here.