Ukrainian refugees in Ireland - Megathread

I dont know if you are looking at the telegram but you're 100% right. Aside from messages about getting payments and free housing, the most talked about thing is flying into our country from safe havens (Poland, portugal, Spain, to name a few) and flying back to the 'Brutal War' our dipshit politicians called it. Some even wanting to take their kids back with them.

State of the clowns in this country defending this type of shite. 🤡.

Yeah, looks like I misread that stat, that's the annual figure! So, €200 a week is crazy money.

It depends where you look and I've already addressed that.

Ah right , yes that makes sense alright

I didn’t ask him why he was here when he should still be in Ukraine. I’m not an investigative journalist. He is far from the only Ukrainian adult male here as a refugee. You think a cash in hand job is hard to find in Ireland? He seemed pretty confident he would find cash in hand work easy enough in Dublin. Maybe, just maybe he heard this from other Ukrainians living in Dublin? I call you an absolute spoofer.

Again, based on my experience in that part of the world you very probably met a delusional spoofer. They are also inclined to brag and have lots of big, often unrealistic, plans. But then again what 18-20 year old young lad isn't a spoofer?! I would have grilled him, very nicely of course, but truth be told I'd just be nosy anyway! If you meet another one throw a few questions their way!

Go down to my local university, I’m there 3 times a week. Families, woman, men 18-80+… single people 18-80 multiple people from every adult age bracket and demographic…. Some who meet the criteria which we were sold, yes…absolutely loads, in fact the vast vast majority who don’t, young fit men and woman without children, socialising together in the bar…. Over in the park.

the EU ie. US has payed or pledged over 10 billion to the Ukrainians to finance rebuilding a country that significant numbers, millions of young, healthy people can’t be arsed defending.

as of a month ago over 5 million people have left the Ukraine…a significant portion are young healthy and able people. Photos everywhere and we see them first hand too..

so the EU has spent or will spend over 10 billion in a rebuilding cash gift for the Ukraine, not including of course whatever Ireland,m irish taxpayers has spent, housing, financing, providing access to medical services, education etc…that will continue…

I can’t really see a way out…

Do we check for eligibility ? Yes

Do we return those whom we didnt agree to assist ? Yes

we don’t have the money to deal with it… that’s the problem…to claim we do is false.

 The financial implications of taking in Ukrainian refugees will not be known until later in the year, the finance minister said.

In addition the Taoiseach says €4bn in Covid funds can be raided to help Ukrainians settle in Ireland. A This fund of €4bn to help the country through the Covid-19 pandemic but…nope, not ours anymore potentially.

The journal has a piece about 3000 refugees who need to move out from student accommodation before the end of the month and nowhere for them to go. So what exactly is the government's plans for housing these refugees? They can't hardly kick them out if there's nowhere else to go, so that means nowhere for students to move into in September. It's a disaster really but I guess most of us saw it coming.

They never had a plan. It was come one and come all. We will figure it out as we go along. There won’t be a hotel room left in Ireland not occupied with Ukrainians. Houses won’t be found for them any time soon and if they are found are there social houses which many an Irish family has been on a waiting list for years for?

An I, for one, cannot for the life of me see any potential roadblocks with this imaginary fellas imaginary plan to get a cash-in-hand job translating from Ukrainian into English.

Everyone knows that government agencies which might require translators have zero bureaucracy and always pay in cash with no questions asked. That is if he has the time what with all the private work. There are a load of Irish people near me that can't for the life of them get a Ukrainian translator. It has been a big problem in these parts since the crash back in 2008. Those people would have no problem handing over 50 quid cash for a half hour nixer. 14 years of catch up to do on all their translating.

Didn’t read the rest of your post after you mentioned imaginary. I have better things to be doing than making up stories to entertain the likes of you thinking your doing something by calling out people for in your opinion making up stories. You seem to be the Boards equivalent of the village idiot based on other interactions I have seen you have on this site. Please don’t respond to any of my posts again and this will be the last time I interact with you. Have a good day.