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

Growing again but its ok cause the do gooders believe we are saving the world

Reducing immigration is about the best possible housing policy right now

First thing a plumber does when a house floods is turn off the water supply

With respect to Nigeria, it is arguably one country that we do have some responsibility for. For several decades, we exported our excess religious to Africa and Nigeria in particular. The campaign to save the 'black babies', to feed, educate and to convert them to Catholicism. The likes of St Patrick's Missionary Society aka Kiltegan Fathers & similar Missions sent many Irish priests and nuns to Nigeria. There were collections at church gates to support the missions to Africa. Hence why you wouldn't wonder too much when you come across a Nigerian lady called Philomena or Concepta. Having converted these people to our ways from their culture, we do have some responsibility.

But as for Syrians, Afghans, Brazilians, Georgians, Moroccans etc etc - no, away with them.

If anyone were to cite a religion as the cause of some of Nigeria's problems it sure as hell wouldn't be Catholicism. Who do you think causes greater unrest, an order of nuns or Boko Haram?

What parties do you think we should consider in any upcoming elections?

You're the one claimed we had some sort of legacy there and by extension a greater obligation to accept Nigerians

I think it's a spurious claim

We arguably have a great degree of responsibility towards Nigerians than say Moroccans or Algerians. Put bluntly, we 'colonised' Nigerian minds and steered them away from their own culture & beliefs. Morally that does put us on the hook in part to Nigeria.

How can the population grow if most of the people that are coming here are male? unless they somehow manage to get their spouses and children over here from the 'war' they fled maybe then they'll contribute to population growth and put extra burdens on the state. I doubt most of the these men who are coming here have wives and children in their homeland, wherever that is.

It is a fact that the population of Western Europe is in decline. It's also a fact that we are becoming increasingly secular and with that, more than ever following our own free will. Literally reseeding Europe may be in some people's interests, particularly if the new arrivals are fervently religious, meaning they and their offspring may be more easily manipulated and controlled.

Either that or it's extreme white guilt. Our leaders, like the cuckold husband who gets off on seeing his missus with another man, are getting their kicks from encouraging other cultures to take over the nest. Oh how they will orgasm in a few years when the Irish slip into minority status.

Costs. Cost of living hitting all time high and having kids.

Suppose when the government subsidies the newcomers and houses them. Easier have kids aint it.

Jack Chambers, our newly minted Minister for Finance was interviewed by RTE this morning. Initially he was asked about the problem arising in the IPAS system whereby people get their 'papers' but who can't or won't move out of state provided accommodation. That what was to be done if they were evicted and end up on streets.

Jacks answer? The local authorities must look after them, like they look after social housing generally. He was allowed to state this twice without any attempt at a follow up question as to how LAs / County Councils were going to do this. Just who will be taken off the LAs existing housing lists, who will be pushed down the list so as to accommodate these arrivals?? The RTE journalist disgracefully neglected to ask the obvious questions arising - presumably to avoid addressing the potentially incendiary consequence of Irish people being demoted down housing lists to suit Jack & O'Gorman's agendas.

Nothing like giving people in the country a wet week, housing ahead of locals waiting years, to piss off an electorate. Wait till people realise they can't get healthcare appointments due to long delays caused by this influx in population.

That's the problem. By the time it is affecting more people it will be too late to do anything other than taking drastic action.

There's a tendency, I notice, on here for people to come up with some form of deflection with situations like this.

If someone was to post, say, that Dublin is expensive as they had to pay X amount for a pint of Guinness you'll almost immediately have someone coming along to say "well, I actually paid significantly less than that in a bar the other day".

If I go to a hotel and try to book a room but they say "sorry bud we've no rooms but here's a mattress and a sleeping bag if you want to find a spot in the basement car park" then it's fair enough to say that the hotel is full. Nobody would argue with you on that. Yet we can send 100s of blokes onto the city streets with a tent and anyone who says "Ireland is full" is just branded a racist.

Even if we being to see headlines similar to those seen in France, Sweden and Germany there will still be a small enough number of victims that people can just ignore it or play it down. Sure, we've had crime in Ireland since forever so maybe you're just mad because it's non-Irish doing the crimes, you racist.

I'd love to hear someone who supports all this explain to me what the long term benefit is supposed to be. Say we could wipe out all of the racists tomorrow and just get on with giving these blokes their tents and let them pee and poop in the canal and bring in more and more and more of them what is the end goal? We aren't building homes for them, we aren't scaling public services to deal with the influx. The 99.6% are just fine with all this?

Does anyone sincerely think it's a good idea to, for example, take hotels that would normally be getting their income from overseas tourists or Irish people using their expendable income and just use Irish taxpayer money to pay for people to stay in them for free?

What is going to happen when the money runs out?

Talk about a tenuous link

We didn't just build schools. These people were of African tribes with their own unique ways, beliefs & customs. We went in and set about converting them into good little Catholics & Protestants, we set about persuading them that a European way of life is better and what they should be aspiring too.

I have little time for the argument that because many Irish emigrated to find work elsewhere, that we someone have a duty of care to everyone who wants to rock up here now.

But in the case of the work of our religious, we deliberately set out to influence and convert certain areas of Africa. This work was supported by both society and state here and we have a responsibility for the consequences. It's not a coincidence that Nigerians want to come to Ireland. There's a price to be paid for our interference in these regions.

But as for many others landing up, I'd stop them entering and anyone that does get through, interviewed and repatriated to whence they came from as soon as possible.