Ukrainian refugees in Ireland - Megathread

Illegal workers aren’t something to sneer about- they steal from all us honest taxpayers- who the hell do you think pays their healthcare when they get ill (and low paid tend to need public healthcare more as they can’t afford private).

We need ask her how much is this:)) though great choice with Riviera refuge 🌴🌞 👍

We take in more but we are spending more of that income…

you don’t hear any politicians announcing capital projects as a result of this influx ? Great our tax intake will increase xx% so let’s get more metro lines, metro west won’t happen because of funding, that’s the official line.

Let's be abundantly clear here. The Red Cow like many hotels was used at the start of this crisis.

Contracts were then entered into with designated hotels for long term accommodation to house Ukrainian refugees, The Red Cow Hotel is NOT one of them.

Since contracts were signed, most notably the City West venue, Ukrainian refugees were not sent to the Red Cow.

This said, and it was widely reported on, indeed mentioned on this thread, the Red Cow was used as an emergency venue to accommodate refugees from other countries, notably Somalia, Syrian, Afghanistan, Yemen etc and admitidly in dreadful facilties, namely the Hotels ballroom, the minister actually had to apologise at the time and again this widely reported. These refugees were part of an agreed program government entered into before Covid pandemic, it was put on hold and whilst timing unfortunate, they arrived in the middle of a new crisis in Ireland. UP to 500 arrived about a month ago.

As for the incident, a few metres away from the Ballroom, I don't know when it occurred, what the circumstances were but I do know there was tensions given the cramped nature of the temporary accommodation offered to a number of ethnic groupings in a ballroom.

Whilst it's always possible some Ukrainians ended up in this hotel briefly since arrangements put in place with city west, it is not now a designated location for housing Ukrainian refugees and certainly no large numbers would be ending up in the Red Cow.

To link the Video in this Thread without any evidence that the brawl involved Ukrainian Refugees was not appropriate.

I may have my stong views on policy, no cap, some crazy government decisions etc but people need to be very careful when it comes to assuming videos like this have anything to do with The Ukrainian refugee crisis.

As for the appeal you mentioned, months old and issued at the start of this crisis.

Do you actually understand that even if someone is working it can still mean they are “entitled” to claim substantial state supports and are rarely net contributors due to the extremely low levels of tax paid. Social housing, children allowance, supplementary welfare, healthcare, education etc

I'm afraid in this case the video actually has nothing to do with the Ukrainian Refugee situation, I've been abundantly clear on how I feel about what's going on generally, but as I've explained in my detailed response on the posting of this video, there's not a shred of evidence to point to this brawl having anything to do with Ukrainians who are not accommodated in the Red Cow now, nor have been for months, officially, yes a small number in an absolute emergency but very temporary. The Red Cow was used to house other refugees, details in my previous post.

My views remain as steadfast as they've been and there's quite enough going on to concern us without the need to make assumptions.

I get there are those who have a one dimensional view on what's going on and continously deny reality and I'll engage with and call them out but we really don't need misleading video's to prove our points, Just saying 😉