Ukrainian refugees in Ireland - Megathread

I think the real question is where did Beasty acquire this gaff which can hold half of Leitrim?

Problems already? You should get on to Minister McEntee and everybody else up in the clown factory because they see no problems arising from their ridiculous problematic virtue signaling plan whatsoever

And putting them bundled into a large sports hall isnt ?

You're telling me that out of 30k refugees landed here, not one family has extended family.

And tbh, they'd want to cop on pretty smartish if they're not getting on with each other if they have to live in a communial setting, because we ain't got much more, you're making them sound like very demanding rather than needy, even picking and choosing to their liking rather than take what's on offer.

The fact that the Red Cross are happy to place people into HOMES with Irish people, but not house Ukrainians together doesn't sound great does it?

PhDs in Science are not sitting exams. It is about publishing papers. Published papers will have a certain "impact factor" depending on the reputation of the journal and a number of citations. So there is a huge difference between different PhD holders. Some just don't know what to do with themselves and stay in college. Some are highly skilled and making great contributions to their area.

One big side affect is the gigantic costs of hotel rooms now.

It will be interesting to see how this affects our tourist reputation.

The biggest issues facing the tourist industry is not occupancy levels which are sill not back to pre pandemic levels, it's the cost of energy, food and chronic staffing shortages.

The costs of hotel rooms were "gigantic" especially in Dublin long before that dickhéad Putin fired any missiles into Ukraine.

We are at about 80% pre pandemic levels of occupancy, roughly 5% of hotel rooms nationally are being used by Ukrainians.

Even the industry are saying that it won't have that much of an effect unless the numbers drastically increase at Peak summer.

The gouge now has little to do with refugees, but they will be used as an excuse to gauge more in the coming months.

Also it's not like these hotels are not getting reimbursed for their services, it's still a challenging market.

They maybe packed at weekends and in Dublin but they are certainly not Monday through Friday and occupancy levels generally in Hotels outside Dublin are very low. Notwithstanding poor occupancy levels , other services are suffering, Bars, Restaurants, Leisure facilities etc.

On top of this, Costs have sky rocketed, Labour shortages still an issue and now Government extending the 9% VAT rate. The airwaves filled this morning with Hospitality business owners struggling.

Thought the vat rate for hospitality had gone up already. Hate to see the food prices and room prices for hotels if it was back to normal.