Ukrainian refugees in Ireland - Megathread

The Ukrainians here have no problem going back to Ukraine for holidays once they have the social welfare benefits and free accommodation sorted here first

haha.. you're deflecting. There remains huge areas of Ukraine which haven't been attacked.

I actually vomited in my mouth earlier while driving past the student accommodation that was given over to Ukrainians here. Modern duplexes with a town centre location, within a stones throw of the Institute of Technology. A load of Ukrainian cars parked outside them.

As if ever in a month of Sundays, if war started in Ireland...Would Ukraine rehouse us in that way and displace their own citizens. We literally have pie on our faces. What backstabbing traitors our government are to us.

We should have had tents in the most rural backwater of Ireland to provide refuge for the Ukrainians who needed the most help and at that a cap on numbers. This has been going on for months and I am still perplexed and dumbstruck at this farce.

It's hardly exclusive to the middle class. Posters on boards have some really outdated and romantic notions of what the working class is. They're just as likely to involved in this nonsense as the middle class, or our upper classes.

Also, the middle class consists of the children of middle class parents... who are just as likely to be looking for somewhere to live, and considering how much the middle is squeezed in this country, aren't likely to have much support from their parents in finding such a place. My parents are classed as middle class, but when it came to us going though college, we all went locally, we all held part-time jobs, etc. Being middle class doesn't mean that you're loaded.. just that you're reasonably secure/stable. I'm middle class because of my parents, that's it... but I'll still be judged/measured as middle class. It's an unfair system, and completely outdated.

Posters really should move away from this class nonsense in Ireland. The availability of education and decline of discrimination has flattened the classes for the most part, except on the extreme lower ends.

At what point will there be a policy change from the government? I read 50 Ukrainians slept for 3 nights at an ex covid testing centre. 3,300 arrived in the previous 3 weeks. At what point do they arrive at that this is just not sustainable anymore in its current format? Were at 50k now give or take, and each 1k that arrive will be harder to accommodate that the previous 1k. Where is the breaking point?

Harking back to my previous point they need to cut benefits for any Ukrainian in free accommodation and free meals. How is that Irish people on social welfare aren’t afforded the same luxury? Or other refugees on 38 euro per week aren’t? Why is it that Ukrainians are getting excessive special treatment? Why do they deserve more than someone from Syria, Afghanistan or someone on benefits here? That I cannot wrap my head around. You could argue it’s a racist policy giving special treatment to one group over everyone else based purely on nationality.

Surely they can see the writing is on the wall that something will have to change but they seem paralysed by fear to do anything. And some things they wanted to do in the budget they have to scale back on now because it will cost too much, they won’t mention paying Ukrainians full whack benefits along with free accommodation and meals as costing too much that’s for sure.

The worlds slowest car crash in motion.