Ungrateful or does he have a point?

Hot takes incoming.

Close the door behind you. Bye bye.

Direct provision isn't perfect but the major issue imo is the length of time it takes to decide an application.

No doubt a minority of the people arriving here and claiming asylum are attracted by our welfare system ahead of our human rights record but I do think it's crazy how it can take a number of years to sort out an application.

It should be done in months rather than years and if you don't meet the criteria then immediately ship home. If you do qualify then a small short term support payment but you need to get into workplace or education inside 3 months. A short term Visa or something, reviewed in the short term.

There was a woman on Tommy Tiernan lately who was in the application system and she seemed a very capable lady but wouldn't/couldn't discuss her case he did miss one question I thought- why did she cross so many other countries including the UK, where she could have claimed asylum in order to claim it in Ireland.

A lot of people are coming from unimaginable situations but the minority are clogging the system for the good.

I currently work with a woman who became pregnant with and subsequently married and later divorced a Nigerian asylum seeker. His claim was that he was involuntarily born into a cult like situation who tortured him and would kill him if he was sent back. His proof was multiple scarring - which was actually ritual tribal scarring from his manhood ceremony. Our idiots bought it, he was given leave to remain, freely admitted to colleague that Ireland is a preferred destination due to the high and importantly - life long benefits here.

His friends fraudulently claimed they were from Ivory Coast where there was a war at the time and were given leave to remain.

A common practice is to sell prsi numbers if you leave Ireland, the buyer then works with one and claims with another.

Things have tightened up, true, but there are still a huge number of non-genuine asylum seekers in the system.

And - many countries have direct provision, Germany, Finland for starters.

What's so wrong about this is that chancers and downright fraudsters choke up the system for genuine refugees who truly need international protection.

Black South Africans - a number have gotten asylum, why? There's no war and allegedly freedom and equality in SA. Do white South Africans get asylum? Not to my knowledge.

That Ukrainian kid who was in DP and did well in the leaving cert so was given a free ride to UCD/Trinity to do physiotherapy - she wasn't from Crimea, no war, why were they here?

Begruding individuals asylum/education etc seems petty, but loosening rules makes us an easy target, and we are. I worked in a gypsy village in Central Europe and they knew all about Ireland, better benefits than UK, soft touch people, they called a person who went to Ireland "zlati prenasalec" = golden retriever.....

Absolute brass neck

Tork wrote: »

What country does this dude come from? It isn't mentioned in the article. Would it be a country from which there are no direct flights to Ireland?

I don't know, but my first reaction when i clicked the link was "That's Michael from 'Lost'. what's Harold Perrineau doing in direct provision, in Ireland??"

bubblypop wrote: »

Direct provision is inhumane & should be changed.
But the whole system needs to be speeded up. No reason to have people here for years before a decision is made.
Do it quickly.

Bit much to be complaining that they’re years in the system, when they appeal each and every refusal of their asylum claims so that it takes years to get to the end of the tunnel.

One appeal and then deport. Problem solved.