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

Hotel staff around the country were often foreign 10, even 20 years ago though

You should try (actually, no, I hope it doesn't happen to you) having children who need health intervention or CAMHS and not being able to get help for them due to overcrowding, canceled scheduled surgeries and 'funding issues' all whilst paying similarly scandalous amounts of income tax.

Can't post the specifics as that would be posting "anecdotes" which I probably made up...

Then see how much angrier you'll be...

Agree with everything you say ...except the last paragraph .

I don't agree that many are so excercised about the issue ... annoyed, yes , and want McEntee and others to step up and sort it.

But not enough to go to a very well publicised protest march on a grey bank holiday Monday . The crowd attending would be a turn off for sure for many people in the middle .

It certainly is going to be one of the issues in the European elections and next GE but it has moved down the list of priorities again with the voting public .

Housing is back up there well ahead this month .

All of the issues that affect voters are dynamic but housing is consistently up there for the last year topping the list of voter concerns . Health going down and up , people always worried about that .

Also SF moving up again in polls think because of their newfound stronger stance on immigration .

Lets face it we all knew they would pivot seeing as the majority of their voters are the most vocal about immigration .

The majority of those polled who are for border checkpoints were SF voters which is ironic given how that would affect the Irish in the North if implemented. Be more a coup for Unionists, especially hardliners if that was to happen at this stage .

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/poll-50pc-in-favour-of-migrant-checkpoints-at-the-border-with-northern-ireland/a420206090.html

The water flows into Grand Canal Dock where there'll be young fellas and young wans jumping in on the hot days. Surely an e-coli risk!?

Not that anyone should be jumping in there anyway but they do.

And fg / ff to blame for allowing them in. They should be transported down to the most remote parts of the country. See how easily they make their way back them. Or else offer them free flights home to their " war torn" countries.

I think we in the "remote parts of the country" have more than taken our share of Ukes and Illegals. Kerry has 33 times the ratio of Dunlaoghaire and 7 times the national average.

How's dem apples....

Suddenly It's an issue when they're camping and sh1tting in Dublin..

The fact that it exists in other countries doesn't make it ok that it should exist here. The issues in places like Spain and France have different historic reasons and vast slums have developed there as a result. Their cities are also much larger and you don't find shanty towns in the heart of the most affluent commercial and residential areas.

When I view the forum homepage on Chrome it shows "Latest Posts", but not "Trending", and this thread does appear under that at the moment, and I've seen it there very often in the past.

But when I view the forum homepage in MS Edge, it shows "Trending" and "Latest Posts" and it shows the Migrant Checkpoint thread in both, but this thread is not in "Trending". But the Checkpoint thread has had only around ~42 posts today, compared to >100 posts in this thread.

So it is a bit weird but maybe there's an explanation in how it's coded….

Healy Raes making millions out of housing Ukrainians in Kerry .Blowing out both sides of their mouths.

Yes, unfortunately this is 100% the case.

The Govt has basically won the economic lottery with the tax-take from the FDI sector. Our own indigenous industries are completely ignored or, as in the case of tourism, being actively destroyed by Government policy.

The money these FDIs generate is highly mobile and incredibly susceptible to a change in tax-policy by an American administration. It could disappear in an instant and leave a massive hole in our economy.

If the Government were acting in the best interests of its citizens, present and future, they would be using this windfall to improve our underlying economy and invest in Health, Education, Infrastructure, etc.

Instead they are pissing it away in front of our eyes.

It actually makes me livid to see the waste these charlatans have presided over. They are fcuking up this country for our children because they haven't a backbone between the lot of them. The worst thing about it all is there is no credible opposition either.

Make no mistake, they will piss billions away on the immigration issue - money that could be used to transform the country will be instead used to jack up property and rental prices and place more strain on our services.

What a fcuking joke we have become - the whole thing is depressing.

Why not Mosney, it's an established accommodation centre, it's on an 80 acre site, has every support service that AS need, medical etc. There must be plenty of space in the vast grounds there to site 100's of .tents until applications are processed.

A report on drive time on radio about the new tented areas popping up, the reporter asked some of the people in tents were they moved in from Mount Street and they didn't know where or what mount Street was so obviously new arrivals in the last week.

Tents down at the central bank too now according to the report.

They receive a social welfare payment called a Daily Expenses Allowance.

Or are you being overly pedantic as by that logic Irish people don't get social welfare either we get jobseekers allowance/benefit etc.

It's still coming from the Department of Social Protection and still called a social welfare payment by the government.

I've always got the impression that the Dept. of Justice is full of lifers counting down the days. The Sec Gen is a lifer who worked her way up. No idea what accountability or action means.