Eric Cartman wrote: » Airbnb and predatory landlords are a much much smaller issue than over dependence on social housing.
Stateofyou wrote: » Please - I know people on the scratcher since the late 90's still living in a council house and half the children are now legal adults still living at home. What were our immigration levels like then? Things that also contribute to the rental market pressure: Airbnb, predatory landlords.
double jobbing wrote: » Let me break it down for those in the cheap seats. Say we have 80,000 Irish families on the housing list. The bulk of these people are currently living in private rented accommodation on HAP scheme or rent supplement. If a family in Dublin is kept on this scheme for a decade, the money spent would have been enough to build them an actual social home. When you pour more people in, and give them preference for the housing, it keeps the Irish family in HAP longer, at a longer term expense to the country. It also keeps the rental market overloaded with people who should be living in actual council houses, thus pushing up the average rent per unit. Supply= demand. I'd rather Margaret Cash was given feck all, but while a forever home is denied to her, and tens of thousands like her, it keeps pressure on the private rental market.
Eric Cartman wrote: » almost everyone who posts in an 'anti illegal immigration' manor says the same things about home grown leeches. We don't need any more freeloaders.
Stateofyou wrote: » Do you also care about the white Irish being on the scratcher their whole lives and getting council houses to live in the rest of their lives? Because that happens too.
kildare lad wrote: » Call it what you want but it true . Do you think that some people that came here in the late 90s / early noughties ever had any intentions of working ? They only came here to ride the system, that system was rode to bits by people who couldn't work to warm themselves , what ever happened to getting yourself set up and financially secure before having babies. No not in Ireland where they rewarded you houses etc on the backs of the taxpayers
ELM327 wrote: » Only if you choose it to be. It's also true.
US2 wrote: » How can you use Australia as a good example. White Europeans nearly extinct the aborigines.
Thelonious Monk wrote: » I don't care where my neighbour comes from here in Dublin, so if Ireland goes that way too, why would it bother me?
Stateofyou wrote: » "Anchor babies" running wild :pac: "some of the laziest people on the planet" This is biased and prejudiced language.
1800_Ladladlad wrote: » Eoin O'Broin confidently stating that anker babies should be given give birthright citizenship and that we should remove the 27th Amendment as it is racist. This is simply wrong. Over 80% of the Irish Republic voted against this in '03. This shows utter contempt for democracy. "Let's make a clear statement here today; Ireland belongs to all of us. Not just those of us who were born here. but those people who come here, who work here, and contribute to our society." .
biko wrote: » John Cleese have said that London was no longer an English city, saying "virtually all my friends from abroad have confirmed my observation". Mayor "Part and parcel" Khan objected saying "diversity is our strength". London has gone from a less than a third minorities to almost half in 20 years. This is probably what Cleese was referring to. If it happened in London it may just happen in Dublin. There is plenty of political will for things to go this way.
2u2me wrote: » I think you're arguing with a shadow here. The bits you've omiitted from my quote I believe were most relevant.
One example: America. People who went to the US willingly from all parts of the world, all of their cultures combined we now called America; they created the richest, most free society ever seen in history. The only invaders were the original colonists, but even at that the native American indians regularly invaded each other aswell. Many dishes, words, foods, sports, etc.. all had origins in other cultures that we now call 'american'. It wasn't through domination, it was through collaboration.
That should not be confusd with integrating people successfully into one's country which has been happening throughout the history of our species.
1800_Ladladlad wrote: » Eoin O'Broin confidently stating that anker babies should be given give birthright citizenship and that we should remove the 27th Amendment as it is racist. This is simply wrong. Over 80% of the Irish Republic voted against this in '03. This shows utter contempt for democracy.https://twitter.com/EOBroin/status/1273300365530869763
kildare lad wrote: » We're seeing the fruits of the anchor babies now who're running wild in certain parts of Ireland , come here and the more kids you have the money we'll pay you . You had people getting here ready to pop ,straight down the social to get the house , medical card , children's allowance etc. That system was used and abused by some of the laziest people on planet who have been nothing but a drain on the tax payer since getting here .
Risingshadoo wrote: » Immigration is always a bad thing. Just look at America.
Thelonious Monk wrote: » I visit there regularly as a mate bought there years ago. It isn't controlled by black gangs like you all fantasise about. It's grand, him and his friends like living there. The village actually has potential if they develop it properly.
Thelonious Monk wrote: » I lived in a mostly black area in London and it was grand. Easy to buy drugs mind.
