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

The now accepted use of hotels for refugees accommodation is a game changer, they are the new provision centres for refugees awaiting their own door accommodation. You can see them being used more and more now, which will obviously have an affect on those towns relying on tourists

A true snowflake do gooder of the highest order.

In fairness that’s both sides. Most people want to help without being personally inconvenienced. Even those that open their own homes might be looking at inflation and energy costs and wondering how things will look in a few months. Then you add the possibility of a global recession into the mix.

It’s only in this thread that I saw that you don’t support full welfare payments to refugees, at least we can agree on that. You have to see that resentment will build if people think refugees are being prioritised over the interests of Irish people. I posted in the previous thread that Ireland is in the bottom two countries for percentage of GDP spent on energy subsidies. It hasn’t really sunk in how much energy prices could go up.

Some man for the histrionics Hamachi 😁

This thread well and truly jumped the shark from the get-go, a variation on a theme, so to speak -

It is all going so swimmingly so far.

It’s not helped by your lamenting the society your children will inherit, your exaggerated assessment of the Government’s handling of the situation, and your pretence that everyone is now living in a chaotic, maniacal environment, led by politicians who, according to your assessment, have no experience, are low in intelligence, qualifications, etc, in spite of having been presented with evidence to the contrary.

If you have experience greater than theirs, you’re obviously keeping it to yourself, and blaming anyone and everyone else who doesn’t share your opinions of immigrants as being responsible for the society your children will inherit, as though anyone who doesn’t agree with you should feel any degree of sympathy for your children when there are refugees who aren’t nearly so fortunate to be able to be as certain of their future as your children can be of theirs.

Your bar for what you consider chaotic or maniacal is obviously calibrated so low that it’s impossible not to notice that you apply it to anyone who doesn’t share your opinions, rendering it meaningless, much like the rest of your rhetoric regarding the Government’s handling of the Ukrainian situation.

You’ve yet to give any credible argument that the Government were wrong in not putting a cap on Ukrainian refugees, or the impact it will have on Irish society, that isn’t based upon nothing more than your own indignation that anyone has the temerity to question your histrionic nonsense.

The number of Ukrainian males coming over is in the mid 30s % wise n rising. The women n kids coming over for a few months we were told of at the start of the war didn't age well!

The Irish Times: Long-term direct provision residents could be charged rent or fees under proposals.

A source also said the Government is seeing evidence that there are more males from Ukraine arriving in the State. The figure is rising to somewhere in the mid-30 per cent range, according to one estimate.

...most revenue is also coming from corporate taxes, so ive no idea why some are up in arms!

That isn't surprising, even when we were told it was all women and children close to thirty percent of adults were male.