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

diversity has plenty of positives. As long as it’s the right balance of numbers, culture and integration.

Questioning why thousands upon thousands of young men are illegally flooding in from counties like Somalia , Algeria and Albania and being dumped all over the country with absolutely no future plans on what to do with them is not right wing.

I don’t particularly care about them , but if you did then you would also say it’s not fair on them - they’ve probably been sold a fantasy of the west as having streets paved with gold , paid a load of money / debt to people traffickers and when they get here they get dumped - can’t work , alien culture , zero money / autonomy and no women for them. I doubt they’re jumping with joy.

by not being firm and booting them out we are only encouraging this misery and profiting criminal networks. It’s totally reckless of the government to do this and they’re going to cause major major unrest. It’s like a government committing suicide and dragging the country down with it.

Just seeing Eamon Ryan on the news saying he was shocked by the awful attack last night on the guys in tents this situation is going to turn very ugly with the open door policy the government is folllowing .We cannot solve the problems of the world which are terrible but enough is enough .

So it's a tourist hotspot but the main hotel closed in 2016.

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Telling that that's what you took from my post. Another stellar contribution.

Still no movement on the idle hotel in Dublin 4 ?

massive increase in communal tent living and a woman living out of a commercial tumble dryer in Dublin...

https://www.newstalk.com/news/truly-tragic-woman-found-living-in-a-tumble-dryer-after-becoming-homeless-1432328

I'll let you figure some of this out for yourself.

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/asylum-seekers-will-get-keys-to-their-own-homes-and-will-be-able-to-work-policy-to-end-direct-provision-revealed-40133273.html

This information was tweeted out by the minister in charge of all of this in several languages including Georgian and Albanian where a huge cohort of our asylum seekers are from. These countries along with a number of others in the top ten of our where these people originate have no wars and are regarded as safe in international standards.

Deportation of non genuine claims was not mentioned in any of these news bulletins so why wouldn't huge numbers arrive here all of a sudden.

seems to be right wing rhetoric

But at the same time they're terrified to actually do anything.

"while around 5,000 people in other direct-provision centres either can’t or won’t leave." what other country would put up with this?

Just the fact that we're supporting people with multiple negative decisions against them. Take away support if the initial decision and appeal has been unsuccessful, no direct provision and no other payments and see how many people stick around for years of appeals.

Also if anyone wants to write a petition that a person with a deportation order should be allowed to stay, they should have to fundraise to pay for housing, healthcare and agree to provide an income for this person for at least 10 years

I'd be anti same sex marriage, anti-abortion, Anti-EU and conservative myself. I wouldn't say no to a "Catholic Republic" if you're offering.

But I agree with you, the National Party are a waste of a vote and are not the solution.

To bring this back to refugee accommodation, something very interesting happened at the protest in Ballsbridge last Saturday. At the end the NP appeared, lead by Justin, and unfurled a party banner. Protestors, mostly from East Wall, moved in on them and demanded that the banner be taken down. East Wall rules were explained to them - they were welcome to support the protest as individuals but not as a party and this met with resistance from Justin.

Most interesting of all it was explained to him, in front of everyone, that by being seen to be in conflict with the protestors over this he was advertising the fact that the NP weren't central to the protest, weren't even welcome and it was showing in a very public way that they weren't involved in organising anything.

The self defeating nature of arguing with the protestors didn't get through to Justin. He continued up Landsdowne Road bannerless and calling the protestors stupid.

This conflict between the protestors and the NP outsiders has continued on Twitter and Telegram since Saturday.

NP members expect electoral success. I don't think Justin does. He seems much more comfortable with the NP as a select and private club. A right wing men's shed.

"Their main policy of looking after the Irish people" 😂

No thanks!

Incompetent owners. Same story with Ballyvaughn in Clare. Right at the edge of the Burren and close to the cliffs and the caves, the large hotel in the town is now an asylum reception centre. It was sold to a builder that struggled to run it for years despite it's prime location close some of the most beautiful and busiest tourist spots in Clare because he knew absolutely nothing about running a hotel and ran it into the ground while working behind it's bar. Fortunately for him our government just loves to bail out builders and incompetent hoteliers. He took a multi million euro contract to convert it into an asylum reception center and hasn’t been seen in the village since.

Reading through these threads a lot of people comment on the lack of an alternative immigration policy that can control numbers and balance the influx against available infrastructure and accommodation.

The main parties are all pro uncontrolled immigration, but unless there is a dialogue between the government and the sections of society whom are expressing concern over immigration policy, the natural outcome would be pent up anger and uptick in support of far right policies due to people feeling like they arent being listened to.

It appears to me that there is a tinderbox situation developing and I hope the govt acknowledge it and begin to better connect with the people that are opposing the current immigration policy.

I'll be honest the coverage on the a Irish Times story today astonishes me. The focus has been in it being a racist "attack". Even disregarding the fact that the majority appear to be European and the same skin colour.

Should we not be far more worried that people would rather live in a tent than use the homeless services provided at over 200m per annum. This including one of those interviewed saying it was too dangerous and full of junkies.

But no let's focus on a minor argument instead of the above....

People are sleeping in tents in our Taoiseach constituency and noone bats an eyelid.