Too many foreigners?

GreenDoor

Do anybody else think that there are too many foreigners in Ireland? I'd like to see who's for and against as to find out the general view out there.

IMO the reason the government wants them to come in is to cheapen wages for employers and let the tax payers look after their expences. Thats my opinion anyway. Any thoughts?

Lorax

Is this a troll?

Alter-Ego

Nope, don't think theres too many foreigners in the country. I'm not quite sure what you mean by "cheapen wages for employers and let the tax payers look after their expences" tho.

GreenDoor

Here comes the PC brigade :rolleyes:
What do you mean a troll???

Flukey

A good old fashioned troll indeed. We need the foreigners. We don't need trolls. So go back to where you came from.

the Shades

Working with the 'foreigners' and helping them learn English I have already noted that their grasp of the language is more advanced than yours. So no there aren't too many, in fact you might be able to learn something from them.

Space Coyote

No there aren't too many "foreigners", or non-nationals as they are known. The more the merrier, if they're here to work then good luck to them. There are far too many bigoted narrow-minded racists though...in my opinion.

demanufactured

this is not what ireland needs at all the government are a loada bollox

they need to close the flood gates now before we are over run with eastern europeans they are fuking everywhere , france is stopping it so why cant we?

Rabies

It is about time Ireland had a mixed culture. We are playing catch up with the rest of the world again.

Sangre

Ireland really needs some immigration control. Not for the reasons stated in the Op though.

Creamy Goodness

we have plenty of green fields left, i'd only be concerned if we were up to our eyes in concrete.

GreenDoor

Alter-Ego wrote:

Nope, don't think theres too many foreigners in the country. I'm not quite sure what you mean by "cheapen wages for employers and let the tax payers look after their expences" tho.

Businesses want immigration for more profits. The make money out of immigration.

The immigrants need cloths, housing, food etc which in alot of cases is paid by the tax payers.

1 in 5 houses are now being bought by foreigners. This is pushing up prices for the ordinary Irish tax payers.

The immigrants' chrildren need to be schooled. This means more teachers are needed. More classrooms/schools need to be built (by the tax payer).

Just the other day Mary Hanafin announced that 800 teachers would be provided not to help reduce class sizes but to help foreign students learn English. This I presume will be paid by tax payers too.

Endurance Man

Sangre wrote:

Ireland really needs some immigration control. Not for the reasons stated in the Op though.

Heeeell Yes!! The laws in place at the moment are pathetic at best! My father has an Irish passport, my mother will have hers shortly and yet i aint allowed to stay here. Its a joke!

GreenDoor

Flukey wrote:

A good old fashioned troll indeed. We need the foreigners. We don't need trolls. So go back to where you came from.

Why do we NEED foreigners?

Sangre

GreenDoor wrote:

The immigrants need cloths, housing, food etc which in alot of cases is paid by the tax payers.

Immigrants aren't entitled to any of this.

The immigrants' chrildren need to be schooled. This means more teachers are needed. More classrooms/schools need to be built (by the tax payer).

hate to burst your bubble but the tax payer includes 'non-irish' residents.

Why do we NEED foreigners?

We have a employee defecit that would have crippled the country without the new influx of workers

Rabies

The immigrants need cloths, housing, food etc which in alot of cases is paid by the tax payers.

I think you are mistaking people seeking aslyum for immigrants

1 in 5 houses are now being bought by foreigners. This is pushing up prices for the ordinary Irish tax payers.

How about we all start to buy houses in Bulgaria, Turkey or some other eastern country. That will teach them.... Oh wait, what are the Irish already doing.

The immigrants' chrildren need to be schooled. This means more teachers are needed. More classrooms/schools need to be built (by the tax payer).
I really hope more schools are built. We need them along with hospitals.

Just the other day Mary Hanafin announced that 800 teachers would be provided not to help reduce class sizes but to help foreign students learn English. This I presume will be paid by tax payers too.

Unless it is a private school, of course it will be paid for by the tax payer. Imagine learning another language in school, crazy education system we have here.

Mini_Moose

the continued growth of the economy is partly due to immigration. they often come and take jobs that most Irish people wouldn't want. you complaining about them using our tax money is pretty stupid too. in Britain immigrants pay more tax than than they use up (social benefits and the like) and although i can't be sure i would assume it is a similar situation here

Sangre

Endurance Man wrote:

Heeeell Yes!! The laws in place at the moment are pathetic at best! My father has an Irish passport, my mother will have hers shortly and yet i aint allowed to stay here. Its a joke!

Wouldn't that involve relaxing immigration control?

Ruu_Old

Read the charter, I added a rule specially for these kind of threads, OP. There has been enough immigrant bashing threads on this forum already and its starting to turn into one. Locked.

Beruthiel

GreenDoor wrote:

Here comes the PC brigade :rolleyes:
What do you mean a troll???

He means the comments above are so far from reality they must be a troll.

Does Ireland have a huge unemployment problem? No, and that's because we actually need people to work, our economy is growing so large that we actually need these people. Who do you think will do this work if they don't?

Perhaps you think we should take back the 40 million irish decendants from around this planet instead? Or do you think that's it's fine and dandy for us to go to every other country out there, but nobody should come here. :rolleyes:

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sorry Ruu
I must have posted after you closed the thread.