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

That didn't last long. Tent city is back on Leeson bridge this afternoon. They just moved across the road.

Looking at the election results, most people either don't care or feel the government are doing a good job handling the situation.

The voting public have well and truly but that one to bed. There's no interest in pulling the plug on asylum obligations barring a tiny minority.

When did I say peole have no legal right to be here soundtracks be ejected? Quote the post where I said that.

Yes they are. Hence the reason they are constantly linking the housing crisis and asylum seekers. It's been a constant. So you don't think we should let any foreigners into the country? As you say, adding more to the list is just stupid after all.

We will agree to disagree on that one. The little regard for genuine cases is pushed by people says Ireland is full, what's happening is a plantation, Muslims don't align with our culture, our culture and traditions are the most important thing. It's pushed by people who don't like foreigners, hence the reason they are think most Ukrainians should be sent back home at this stage as well. "Sure there's only a war in one half of the country."

Newsflash. Something can exacerbate a problem without being the sole cause of a problem.

No, Roderic O'Gorman is ruining the tourist industry.

The older people who in the majority own their property outright?

They don't give a rats rear-end about other people's struggle to get on the housing ladder.

The government have never regened on their legal obligations and have made it clear they never will.

Maybe people here on this thread are fed up .certainly looks that way as another poster said ' 834'+ 'pages in .

But according to our recent election results only a very small.percentage are very fed up too ./s

Maybe a GE will tell us exactly how many are really fed up and how many are just spinning a narrative ? !

They have a legal obligation to process any request from asylum. As soon as someone lands on the island of Ireland and makes a request from asylum Ireland has a legal obligation to process that application. Whether the person arrived here legally or not is completely irrelevant in the eyes of the law.

You mean that European Parliament where the vast majority are centre right or left wing? What about it?

The travellers beside the field where they’re due to build modular homes for Ukrainians in Clonmel have been told they have to move their horses to facilitate the building, and there’s nowhere else to put them.

Massive powder keg, one to keep an eye on.

And this far too accommodating approach is thus souring public opinion against genuine hard cases that deserve asylum here.

It's like war or famine reportage - at first people are horrified at the images, then then get inured and couldn't care less.

That is getting to where we are going - many don't care much anymore, too many chancers. Throw em all out etc.

if the Government dont get a handle on this issue opposition will definitely escalate,my opinion has hardened this year and I hear much more negative sentiment among peers then was the case last year,secondly I dont think being wary of the large amount of Muslims settling here is wrong given the unrest and misgivings being expressed in other EU countries about the same thing.It took us long enough to throw off the yoke of the Catholic Church for us to embrace another religion that is way more intolerant than the Catholic church.

I'd temper your judgement if I were you. So called 'far right' candidates did far better than many others, they may not have been elected but stayed stubbornly on the lists gaining transfers, before running out of lower candidates.

Then we have the more moderate voices of Independent Ireland, brand new party and critical of state policy on immigration doing pretty well. Blighe one of those you dislike I suspect, got a healthy 25,000 1st preferences. McNamara not exactly a fan of immigration policy looks set to be elected.

Stick yer heads in the sand, but the game has changed.

I can't speak for everyone else but I'm more fed up having to witness to the anger and hatred inflicted upon this island by the anti immigrant section of it. I mean I understand the level of frustration it has caused and empathise with the plight of the Irish people in terms of housing and healthcare but the depth of insipid bile inducing twisted psychopathic rage filled xenophobia and bigotry that's on display in this country every day of the week is absolutley cellularly soul destroying. From burning down centers to physical assaults on the streets and the utter contempt displayed at "peaceful" protests outside politicians homes. It's insanity. We're tired of the insanity.

As above, utter rejection. Was it three or four far right candidates voted in out of 949. That says it all. Independent Ireland elected who just didn't want them in their own backyard, beyond that they didn't give a ****. Blighe's thief. Not to mention i think an Irexit has to be one of the dumbest ideas anyone can put forward. How anyone can think we won't sink like a stone is beyond me. I've also absolutely no time for pro-liferd either. You must be a fan of those policies though? But yes, I very much dislike him. And thankfully so does the electorate. He's gotten no where near getting a seat.

McNamara has always been a huge fan of immigration actually. In fact, he's been very critical in the past that we've not done more for refugees.

If you think Ireland are going to voter for pro-life, Irexiters like Blighe en masse then the whole person with their head in the sand is you.