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

68% of people between 26 and 34 are living at home. That's completely fucked and they decide to open our borders and make it a free for all unquestioned on top of that.

Gross incompetence and they have now ruined a whole generation of families, not just one person but siblings who will never have their own homes or live independent lives.

It's crazy how bad this Goverment has been. We can probably in time say the worst in the history of the state when the full damage appears in the form of ghettos and everything else.

Ate they really planning on cutting down a 200 year old tree in Clonmel in order to clear the area for a migrant camp?

Thought tree felling wasn’t allowed between March and August?

every single NGO that has been asked their opinion on or solution they give the same answer - build more

Have yet to hear any interviewer ask ‘how many do we accept before we say we can’t sustain this’ and the whole lot comes crashing down?

Why are there so many NGO’s in immigration all been funded with separate CEO no doubt on a wedge, all doing the same job, same message, same demands. Their clientele prioritised. Yer man from Dora’s was so out of touch it’s scary that these people get a platform. No doubt Lucky or Henderson will be next on with the same variation of a message.

I’ve said here before and some pro immigration seem to think it’s futile (i know it’s a form of been gaslit) but we need to be deporting. Quickly. I don’t care if this costs the taxpayer, but it has to be cheaper than an endless scramble for hotels and fields. And dividing small communities across the country by moving in IPAs and expecting to accept it and get on with it.

Irish people who emigrate do so on work visas, they do not abuse the asylum system.

I don't know if any country would grant asylum to an Irish citizen

Was talked about but it’s still standing today.

Last night the local protesters small camp was burned out, a marquee the workers in the field are working in was burned out, two security guards cars that were doing the night shift were smashed up and apparently one of the diggers on site was set on fire but no sure on that one.

Honestly the fact they are trying to put the units in a field beside one of the worst traveller settlements around is absolutely laughable because they will just keep recking the place. It’s only the second day of work and there’s already hassle.

Hilarious that this nonsense is still being pedalled. Nobody has issues with people coming here to work, just like the Irish did when they went abroad. People have issues with randoms turning up looking for their benefits, and based on what has been seen all over Europe, lots of those that do (the majority statistically) end up never working and costing the host country money. Have a read of the University of Amsterdam study or look at the absolute mess in Sweden as a result. Far right propaganda I'm sure

You're honestly talking to a brick wall. These people know there is a major difference, but this ridiculous argument is used consistently regardless even though there is no comparison. They will never admit it though.

This government doesn't do plans.

Just vacuous announcements.

I’m not from anywhere near the area so just heard about it from Twitter. That’s some convoy ^^^^

But the two are not connected. 26 to 34 year olds are not competing with asylum seekers to rent accommodation or to buy their own house. That is the major (domestic) housing crisis you are describing.

It is a regular theme on here to criticise asylum policy on the basis that there is a housing crisis and that asylum seekers exacerbate that as well as requiring resources like school places, medical appointments etc. In other words, the arrival of a group of foreign people who take up space and resources in ways that present certain detrimental effects to the native population.

You can't just evoke that point and obtusely assert that there is absolutely no comparison with Irish migrants in places like Australia (where there is a housing crisis too and Irish migrants are every bit as much a source of housing demand that is also pricing out Australian citizens) — just because Irish migrants aren't asylum seekers or illegal migrants.

People seem to just lose their minds over that on here. "Yeah but they're legal!" / "They aren't claiming asylum!" / "They work and contribute!" — this is what gets chucked back at you as if you were ever suggesting otherwise. The same negative things argued to be caused or exacerbated by the presence of asylum seekers or illegal migrants in Ireland — well — don't f**king dare point to the fact that by the consistent application of that logoic, Irish migrants can also be said to be part of the cause or to be exacerbating problems faced by natives in the countries hosting Irish migrants.

I await the "Yeah but they're legal so there's no comparison whatsoever" cop out.

The 'University of Amsterdam' study is very much far-right propaganda, as has been discussed here repeatedly.

It's self published for a start, and the University of Amsterdam have tried to have their logos removed from the article, having given access to some of their datasets.

Apart from the authors own website it's only shown up on far-right sights, including one particular nasty eugenics type journal, the founder of which liked to claim the Irish 'race' was less intelligent based on his own discredited research.

Of course you're free to buy into that type of nasty BS as much as you like, but it's not a good look, especially for someone claiming to have Irish interests at heart.

Instead of building modular homes for the homeless in hotels , women and children etc and freeing up their hotel rooms they choose this route ,.Then they get thick because people complain at the glaring unfairness of this " plan "

If governments keep on this trajectory, in 5 years time the entire county will resemble a refugee camp.