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

It is incredible to me such a high proportion of these idiots find their way into political life and get their voices heard.

I cannot think of one person that is properly representative of the workers of this country, the ones who "get up at 5am".

Nice set of runners be had on.

Brand new and cost more than I have on my feet.

What an absolute scam and farce.

She was chief commissioner of the Irish human rights and equality commission.

Not Irish refugee council.

And if elected, she will receive the same remuneration as everyone else in the same position.

We aren’t heading towards bankruptcy, we are stampeding towards it.

People who draw more on state resources than they contribute deplete same, this will eventually lead to the bankrupting of the state and none to severely restriced resources for everyone.

Same type of gross oversimplification we see we 'build the wall' and 'send them back'.

Many low paid workers draw on state resources (your terms), through requiring HEPA or income supports, but contribute far more through supporting higher paid workers.

Without hospital cleaners, construction labourers, retail staff, restaurant staff, care workers etc there simply wouldn't be a functioning society for higher paid tech and pharma etc jobs

It's a disgusting attack on the poor to get at IPAs.

Initial costs for IPAs are too high though, we clearly need to move urgently to state owned accommodation.

Loads of half empty buildings in Dublin they could go into. Also lots of on site catering too, showers, security.

Edit ...

RTE reporter took photo on way to work and counted tents in office. #Journalism

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Lead story on Morning Ireland RTE this morning was a shocking rise in hate crime stats, apparently up 12% over one year to 651 incidents. So an extra 80 or so reports across the 26 counties in 12 months….. or a bit more than one a week!!!!

This was casually tied into an introductory spiel about tents in Dublin by the RTE reporter at the outset. Struck me as very biased, lazy and just incompetent journalism.

Bizarrely this followed on from more discussions on the news about how same RTE would be funded into the future.

If that's the level of competence in RTE as on show this morning, better to close the place.

Initial costs for IPAs are too high though, we clearly need to move urgently to state owned accommodation.

I see this line trotted out all the time, move to state owned accommodation.. Where? When you consider that building an apartment block that already has full PP applied for and a building contractor ready to go will take at least 2 years to complete.. in that time how many more thousands of single male migrants will arrive here?

Dept Of integration spent 2.5bn last year alone.

I'd say that the rise could be partially due to incidents that might not have been classified as hate crimes previously but are now.

And of course ordinary Irish people will be told that it's their fault that hate crimes are being committed whereas in fact it's the government's fault.

Successive governments have done nothing to manage our plague of feral street youth. Many of today's scumbags responsible for the hate crimes are the children of the previous generation of scumbags, many of whom are still active. And the current mismanagement of the migration crisis gives said scumbags their excuse to kick in the head of anyone with a foreign accent or skin of a different colour to theirs.

yeah but the houses around there are crazy money to buy so that's where all the refugees welcome crowd live is what i keep hearing, rich areas like this. so this works out for everyone really. if we were to put them in some field in finglas everyone would say they're being dumped on the working classes.

Is it true that some AS who were moved to crooksling have returned to the grand canal encampment? Is it not better to be in a place with sanitary facilities and other services so why go back to a tent beside the IP office?

Can anyone answer why there are queues and tents around mount sreet, is that the only place to make an application? And once the application is made and AS receive paperwork, they can move wherever they like? If that's the process, then it's no surprise that tents keep appearing.

Lots of calls from TDs, ngo's and charities to provide accommodation but if AS need to register first before they get accommodation, then clearly they will wait as long as necessary in order to register.

they most definitely are in the city centre, how long is it since you were there?

they're in loads of city centres in europe on a far worse scale, we're just catching up. the sheer amount of numbers coming to europe means some of them are going to try coming to ireland, especially from the UK as there could be hundreds of 1000s of undocumented people there that can come to ireland easily.

Not that long ago…Didn't see any camps around the Acropolis, Monastiraki, Syntagma… I did see a lot of Police on motorcycles though…