potential extra million people to arrive soon?

pangbang

couple of numbers from rte.

51'000 irish passport applications so far this year (up to march), 30'000 in the same period last year (jan - mar).

Expected that if current trend continues, there'll be 1'000'000 applications in 2017. (yeah theyre only applications, but sure if you had a pet rabbit that looked at Ireland on a map in the year 1756 you qualify for a passport....tenuous links begorrah!)

Obviously strongly linked with brexit. Anything else it could be too?

I welcome these potential extra million people, sure we have the jobs and homes to go around, they're giving them away as it is :P

Whatcha reckon? Looking forward to it?

jamesbere

Well their not all going to be living in Ireland.

CoolHandBandit

jamesbere wrote: »

Well their not all going to be living in Ireland.

Unless they bring tents.

pangbang

jamesbere wrote: »

Well their not all going to be living in Ireland.

So why get one? Just in case?

For some reason the first person to quote on this thread stated "Say it loud and say it clear, refugees are welcome here"

To which I replied "no bother. You want them in, you can get out to make the room".

How come that person and that response of mine just disappeared?

Barry Badrinath

pangbang wrote: »

How come that person and that response of mine just disappeared?

Because rereg...thats why.

Beyondgone

I'd be amazed if they weren't here already. Going by the numbers of shiny new "non nationals" I've encountered in the last few weeks. Going into Tesco is like running the gauntlet the last few times, there have been that many foreign teens hanging around outside. But that's probably "racist" to say.

pangbang

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Because rereg...thats why.

I don't understand what you mean...?

ted1

pangbang wrote: »

couple of numbers from rte.

51'000 irish passport applications so far this year (up to march), 30'000 in the same period last year (jan - mar).

Expected that if current trend continues, there'll be 1'000'000 applications in 2017. (yeah theyre only applications, but sure if you had a pet rabbit that looked at Ireland on a map in the year 1756 you qualify for a passport....tenuous links begorrah!)

Obviously strongly linked with brexit. Anything else it could be too?

I welcome these potential extra million people, sure we have the jobs and homes to go around, they're giving them away as it is :P

Whatcha reckon? Looking forward to it?

Our population in 1850 was over 8 million it's close to 7 now . We are one if the few countries to have a decrease in populations.

A 500 euro annual passport tax for non residents would greatly add to the state coffers. You can justify it by having to man embassies.

muddypaws

pangbang wrote: »

couple of numbers from rte.

51'000 irish passport applications so far this year (up to march), 30'000 in the same period last year (jan - mar).

Expected that if current trend continues, there'll be 1'000'000 applications in 2017. (yeah theyre only applications, but sure if you had a pet rabbit that looked at Ireland on a map in the year 1756 you qualify for a passport....tenuous links begorrah!)

Obviously strongly linked with brexit. Anything else it could be too?

I welcome these potential extra million people, sure we have the jobs and homes to go around, they're giving them away as it is :P

Whatcha reckon? Looking forward to it?

Any idea how many of those applications are from people living in Northern Ireland, that will continue to live there when they have their passport?

If it is strongly linked with Brexit, then the applicants are people with Irish heritage living in the UK, who will continue to live there, and just want the option of having an EU passport for travel or to keep the possiblity of living and working somewhere within the EU. My brother has a British passport, and is now applying for his first Irish one, he will continue to live in England though, has no plans for moving here.

ted1

pangbang wrote: »

jamesbere wrote: »

Well their not all going to be living in Ireland.

So why get one? Just in case?

For some reason the first person to quote on this thread stated "Say it loud and say it clear, refugees are welcome here"

To which I replied "no bother. You want them in, you can get out to make the room".

How come that person and that response of mine just disappeared?

I imagine it's because it's very narrow minded and could be interpreted as being both racists and bigotry.

pangbang

ted1 wrote: »

Our population in 1850 was over 8 million it's close to 7 now . We are one if the few countries to have a decrease in populations.

A 500 euro annual passport tax for non residents would greatly add to the state coffers. You can justify it by having to man embassies.

That would make some hell of a difference I bet!

pangbang

ted1 wrote: »

I imagine it's because it's very narrow minded and could be interpreted as being both racists and bigotry.

Forgive me if I'm interpreting your post incorrectly, but....

If youre insinuating that my reply was narrow-minded in comparison to someone stating that a million refugees are welcome here....how?

If youre insinuating that I'm racist and /or a bigot because of my reply to such a ridiculous statement....how?

Arcade_Tryer

I, for one, welcome our new immigrant overlords.

ted1

Arcade_Tryer wrote: »

I, for one, welcome our new immigrant overlords.

We've had foreign overloads for over 700 years, actually it's only between 1922 and 2008 that we didn't.

Look at the mess we made.

pangbang

ted1 wrote: »

We've had foreign overloads for over 700 years, actually it's only between 1922 and 2008 that we didn't.

Look at the mess we made.

You want to answer the question I asked? Or just ignore it?

Annasopra

pangbang wrote: »

couple of numbers from rte.

51'000 irish passport applications so far this year (up to march), 30'000 in the same period last year (jan - mar).

Expected that if current trend continues, there'll be 1'000'000 applications in 2017. (yeah theyre only applications, but sure if you had a pet rabbit that looked at Ireland on a map in the year 1756 you qualify for a passport....tenuous links begorrah!)

Obviously strongly linked with brexit. Anything else it could be too?

I welcome these potential extra million people, sure we have the jobs and homes to go around, they're giving them away as it is :P

Whatcha reckon? Looking forward to it?

Seriously? You reckon we will have a million people suddenly descend on us? Are you losing the plot or what?

That million is made up of A) people living here already Northern Irish people C) Irish people and their descendants living abroad who will probably stay abroad.

Beyondgone

ted1 wrote: »

We've had foreign overloads for over 700 years, actually it's only between 1922 and 2008 that we didn't.

Look at the mess we made.

Relax. You'll have Islam to guide you very soon. Just go with the flow.

pangbang

Joeytheparrot wrote: »

Seriously? You reckon we will have a million people descend us? Are you losing the plot or what?

That million is made up of A) people living here already Northern Irish people C) Irish people and their descendants living abroad who will probably stay abroad.

Lets says its true, that a million people will have applied for a passport by 2017......

You ask ME am I losing the plot about assuming that a person that applies for a passport has a strong intention to move here.....then you state that its definitely not going to happen?

A future event that you are categorically sure isn't going to happen? And that if it happens and a million people get passports, they definitely aren't going to move here?

And its ME losing the plot?

Annasopra

pangbang wrote: »

Lets says its true, that a million people will have applied for a passport by 2017......

You ask ME am I losing the plot about assuming that a person that applies for a passport has a strong intention to move here.....then you state that its definitely not going to happen?

A future event that you are categorically sure isn't going to happen? And that if it happens and a million people get passports, they definitely aren't going to move here?

And its ME losing the plot?

Yes. It is. Absolutely 100% definitely you. There are not a million people going to suddenly descend on this country.

pangbang

Joeytheparrot wrote: »

Yes. It is. Absolutely 100% definitely you.

Fair play to you. If you get the lotto numbers with your time machine, be sure to share with boards

Or else continue to live in lala land

Annasopra

pangbang wrote: »

Fair play to you. If you get the lotto numbers with your time machine, be sure to share with boards

Or else continue to live in lala land

Are you looking for the conspiracy theories forum?

Tom Mann Centuria

Joeytheparrot wrote: »

Yes. It is. Absolutely 100% definitely you. There are not a million people going to suddenly descend on this country.

Think you meant to reply definitely YOU.

Donal55

Don't forget all those coming here who aren't entitled to an Irish passport but who would like one.

We could have 2000,000 extra by the end of the year.

Give it time and somebody in our Fine Gael/Fianna Fail coalition-but-not-officially-a-coalition government will suggest that now is the time to... try and attract these people to live in Dublin and that it would be "great for the economy" if they all moved to Dublin. Oh, yes, what can the Irish government do to attract all those Brexit businesses to Dublin so that they could further increase property prices in this city? My, oh my, how the English language fails me every time these people in media and politics mention this particular point.

Our bastard government of unfathomable and utterly relentless ineptitude, exacerbated by justifying it all with every inane, misplaced rightwing cliche about "the economy" (especially the part about not interferring in it unless, for instance, you're going to reduce apartment and building standards and give millions of euro in handouts to developers under cover of "first time buyer" grants and the like). Superstar cunts of me feiner fuck-the-poor economics. Every single one of them. Keep away from my door.

pangbang

Joeytheparrot wrote: »

Are you looking for the conspiracy theories forum?

I make silly statements sometimes too...I can own it. You said something categorically thick, have the bones to own it and move on. Or do you have something intelligent to say beyond the childish?

Peregrine

It's 250,000 applications so far this year. Not 51,000. Yes, it's projected that there will be 1 million applications but only a fraction of that are people abroad i.e. the vast majority of that 1 million are Irish people living in Ireland renewing their passports. So where would the 'extra million people' come from?

51,000 in the first three months and 949,000 in the following nine months? Did you even read this thread before posting it?

I'm not letting a thread run with such blatant misinformation. Try again without false statistics and scaremongering.