Ukrainian refugees in Ireland - Megathread

So you start your post by stating your student daughter received a grant and ended it by stating there is nothing for your student daughter? 😕

On the very day Taoiseach announces no further Supports, Tax Reliefs etc to help with the cost of living crisis,

This from Michael Mc Grath

They've some balls, I'll give them that.......... Fianna Fáil And fine Gael..... The No comment party!

I don't think I've met one person over say the last 2 months that see's Ukrainians coming to Ireland as a positive. First month or so of the war most would have been positive about helping.

The honeymoon period is long gone and price of petrol, ESB etc is now forefront as the main issue. 3 billion for Ukrainians next year, how much for the direct provision amnesty, how much for the illegally here amnesty, how much for family repatriation etc etc.

The politicians are so out of touch on this no amount of fluffy positive pieces on rte or the Sunday times is gonna spin it. They might scrape by with it for the summer but when the heating bills etc start arriving in October there is gonna be a lot of resentment.

I thought initially, they'd lost the plot, then I thought they are deliberately winding people up, finally believed they actually are seeking division and social cohesion break down but actually it's a combination of all of these things and.........

Over 10k 😉

Not used to the big numbers 😂

😂😂😂

"Further and Higher Education Minister Simon Harris said that Ukrainian students taking up places in Ireland would be treated as if they were on the Erasmus+ study abroad programme, the supports for which are slightly better than if they were awarded a grant from the Government’s student support agency, Susi"

Mighty stuff

Erasmus support but sure also 208 p/w, accommodation and medical card👍

100% man. I' been thinking recently were does all this naiveness comes from even in the era of the internet. I have seen some utter clown world **** these last few weeks here not limited to Irish collecting money and flying UA flags while next to them sit a group of adult male gopniks smoking cigarettes, absolute bunch of fannies and cowards in their adidas and rollie cigarettes while the do gooders fly their flag and chug for these lot.

How could these boys keep a straight face when they got off the plane at all? Trust me when I say that the majority of people here are feeling the same way about all of this, they're pissed off and it's called the silent majority for a reason. When the McGrath fella today comes out and says they are putting away 3bn of our money away for next year's budget for Ukranians and not a bother to him in saying it, we are becoming run like a dictatorship now where they are playing a game with our country and treating the Irish people now as the NPCs in this fucked up game. Who's this wanker to make these decisions for us? He is the same one going on about not being able to spend for people here because of the so called backdrop of the world economy but he can pull out 3bn when Europes hand comes calling. At this stage we are now fully working for Europe ahead of our own people and it's pissing the people off in this country big time.

Luckily I'm relatively young early 30 and have my house already bought but I'd seriously be looking at getting the hell back out of this country again, we have options to move to the states or back to the Netherlands. I'd rather pay my taxes and be a foreigner to them than to be Irish and be shited on in this place. This country is rubbish if you're young and the only saving grace for me was I had the privilege of growing up in the 90s back when we knew our neighbours and we helped each other out.

You're right. About the fees.

But it has little to do with the fees, and more about the middle man, the taxpayer, being caught to pay over and over, while ukrainans rock on in and are automatically finding college places, with a support grant, without any payment into the system that gives it. No waiting period, no certain amount of tax to be paid, nothing. It's a pure and utter p**s take.