Ireland running out of accommodation for Ukrainian refugees due to surge in non-Ukrainian refugees?

Yeah so what about the 2500 living here who were let in despite having destroyed their passports, what do you suggest we do with them?

I wish it were true that many of those granted asylum went on to become self-sufficient, but the statistics do not bear that out.

What statistics?

And the contempt you’re seeing btw, which I’m in no doubt you’re fully aware of, is for idiots. It has nothing to do with where anyone lives.

The reason it’s hard for you to understand is pretty simple - people don’t see things the way you do is all.

It's the other way round. We had pretty much zero immigration until the boom of the late 90s, and immigration slowed right down after the economic crash of 2008. People are drawn to a prosperous country - lots of people doesn't make the country prosperous in itself. Ireland's "Celtic Tiger" came from low corporate tax which attracted FDI, an educated workforce and a some years of ruthless cutting to balance the books after the disastrous 80s. This took many years to achieve.

Ireland should welcome immigration, but the right kind - skilled, educated people who are required to fill a particular skills gap. And if that skills gap persists, we should be looking at our own workforce and why it's not equipped to to fill it. We should be looking to attract EU nationals before non-EU nationals because of our membership of the EU. We can take a limited number of those fleeing war. We do not need people who arrive with no documentation, or people with no skills to offer us who will be a drain on the public purse. We don't need people with criminal convictions. We don't need people from safe countries pretending to seek asylum, or those who use English language schools as a means of permanent immigration. We should put the interests of native Irish people first when considering all this, because we are a nation state with a constitution and the country belongs to us, not just anyone who rocks up here. Irish citizenship should be a great privilege and should only be handed out to those who sit a language and culture test. I haven't much time for the "Irish granny" citizenship; it has no use 100 years after independence.

The views above make me "far-right" to many.

Because banks were actual banks back then not gambling dens

Whose narrative? The only narrative on display here is the one you’re trying to create where anyone who isn’t opposed to accommodating refugees mustn’t have refugees being accommodated in their communities? I’ve demonstrated your narrative is clearly lacking in any form of actual evidence to support it.

I'm simply suggesting that the worst decades in our economic history (1950s, 1980s for example) always seemed to correspond with very low population growth, mass emigration and zero immigration - two lost decades.

Our government accommodated 63,000 non EU or UK nationals last year, and only half of them were Ukrainians (CSO figures). No wonder why there is so much pressure on accommodation. We can't build quickly enough for these figures.

https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-pme/populationandmigrationestimatesapril2022/keyfindings/#:~:text=The%20number%20of%20immigrants%2C%20or,period%20is%20estimated%20at%2059%2C600.

Hundreds of men arriving every day to Citywest that was set up for Ukrainian women and children.

It's carnage out there

Jaysus you come out with some awful shyte.

If you were to add 5 mouths to feed to your household would that make it more prosperous or less?

Ever hear the old saying about "putting the cart before the horse" ?

No wonder we are fooked when above is the level of logic that supports this lunacy that the government have bought into.

And now there is now even less accommodation for Ukrainians.

No problem with legit refugees from Ukraine, women and children yes should be given priority over other 'refugees' whos origins are unknown or not disclosed. The 6 counties executive claims to have settled 1600 Ukrainians in hostels/emergency housing and Belfast being the main town I haven't seen a single Ukrainian, not that I would know a Ukrainian from a Lithuanian but I'll wager they sure as hell aren't of a certain dark complexion or wear bukrahs. The other side of the wall won't take in any refugees or economic migrants no matter how legit they are.

Liberals falling over one another to house people of unknown origin in areas where they don't live (PBP/SDLP/SF) meanwhile in the slums where they wouldn't piss with next to no public spending for upgrading heres another 20 'refugees' deal with it

The masses who didn't give a damn several years ago when the government essentially told the people of Lisdoonvarna to like it or lump it after a resounding vote against a DP center, are the real guilty ones. This was the state telling the people that their voices didn't matter in the clearest way possible, yet no one really cared. I'm sure half of the posters on this thread didn't care at the time either, yet now they are fighting back when it's way too late. I suppose this is the curse of society, a minority seeing what's coming and get mocked for it, only for the rest to catch on when the damage is done.

Yep. I live in the catchment area of one of the first DP centres, now over twenty years old. There is no end to the inward flow of people and the profound and permanent changes they bring. That's a diplomatic way of putting it.