Was the government right to put no limit on the amount of Ukrainian refugees in Ireland? Read OP

The previous thread was closed because of the xenophobia and racism.

The thread is still there. You can read the xenophobic comments. Classing a whole nation as lazy? Homophobic and racist? "All of them are economic migrants" was repeated on multiple occasions by multiple posters. Yup - xenophobia.

Are you being serious? Because their country was invaded and many towns and cities blown to ****.

Yup, it would have been laughed at, because there were what, seven Loyalist bombings in total, over nearly 30 years that actually killed people? Your analogy is ****.

You are right, though, the IRA and NI have no bearing on this discussion. You shouldn't have brought it up.

And again, empty space doesn't matter; people live in population centers (cities), that's where the jobs are, the utilities are, economic, education opportunities. Everywhere else is under attack or at risk for attack. It's not like you can evenly distribute people over land surface - this isn't Sim City or whatever.

Same old argument used to say the US isn't overpopulated - give everyone a square yard and you can fit them into an area the size of Texas. Reality simply doesn't work that way.

All of Ukraine has been touched by war. There are already 7,000,000+ Ukrainians displaced around their own country. They'd would want to return because it's their country, where they're from, where their friends and families live. Obviously.

So you'll complain about student accommodation now, and who was it, subzero3, complaining about homelessness, who also had done absolutely nothing about it before? Oh... they paid their taxes.

But you've never actually done anything about either problem before. And won't again, once the Ukrainian crisis is over.

Laughable, all right.

The article gives a breakdown on the types of dwelling.

There will absolutely be - for want of a better term - "genuine" reasons why a property is vacant; e.g., a farmhouse on an unviable farm where the owner died, nobody wanted the property, it's become derelict and would cost a whack to bring back to liveable condition.

But there's also the likes of this:

And if you follow the #DerelictIreland hashtag on twitter you'll see dozens of examples up and down the country, mostly in cities, many in towns, many of which could be made liveable in very short order.

None of which include the 66,000 holiday homes that we also have in the country.

Lol, what? 😏

I know plenty of people driving nice cars. Most of them don't actually own the cars, though. So they certainly couldn't sell them.

Why the **** would you buy an apartment in a foreign country for a temporary and indefinite period of time, that could be months, or could be a few years?

Aaaannd... we're back, with the "they're all economic migrants" schtick. Really didn't take long, did it.