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

And what exactly of major positive significance has the current shower done?

Oh yeah the long promised new national children's hospital is a bit nearer completion.

Only thing is it will be the most expensive hospital in the world by a good measure and probably not fit for purpose from the start.

Besides staff are leaving St James in their droves because of the poor working conditions.

What else have they done over the last couple of decades?

Oh yeah created a construction bubble through their policies, with wrongly built properties in the wrong places, leading to a colapse of all our indigenous banks resulting in massive taxpayer funded bailout, then total lack of building for a number of years resulting in huge lack of housing today.

A health system that is one of the best financed in Europe, but not fit for purpose which means people that can afford it go for private healthcare.

And that is before we even mention the joke of importing dodgy people from God knows where that we can't afford or house.

The current parliament could reword the old slogan to now read

"A lot fooked up, a lot more to fook up"

How long have the Ukrainians been in the hotel?

I take the replies of both strazdas and awec above at face value.

It would seem that some people out there really think it is only a minority in the country who are strongly objecting to current immigration policy.

And maybe that is how those in the bubble see it too.

awec seems to believe that implementing tighter border controls, turning around those without papers and, above all, signalling that obtaining asylum status here is going to be made way harder, is somehow "far right" and beyond what the middle ground would find acceptable.

That's not my read of where we're at at all.

It would be hugely popular.

I'm just mystified at how slowly FG are moving there.

People ask what have the protests achieved. Most centres remain occupied.

The protests have been hugely succesful. They've given people a license to say private things publicly.

People had one view on immigration they held privately and then another thing they said in public.

Once they saw some of their neighbours and countrymen saying the private bit out loud they felt empowered to do so too.

Everyone has a different threshold for that change - some need only a few others to be saying it and they switch, others need it to be a majority. They follow. There's a snowball effect.

You're watching that cascade in the last two weeks.

I am aware we need a certain amount of immigration like all western countries. However such as Oz and the USA this should be vetted.

At the moment we are leaving in anybody who is willing to come here. How anybody cannot see the issues this will create in the not too distant future is beyond me.

Calling everybody who disagrees with this situation as Far Right is ridiculous. Most people I speak to feel a cap needs to be put on the numbers entering or country and this farce of turning up with no documents needs to be stamped out straight away.

Stand up for our beautiful country as unfortunately our polictians seem to have no regard for it!

I am aware we need a certain amount of immigration like all western countries. However such as Oz and the USA this should be vetted.

The majority of illegals or undocumented enter both countries perfectly legally. Trumps beautiful big wall was a tool to whip up the crazies.

"Vetted" is what the guards do if you want to work with children or the vulnerable.

Anyone claiming asylum in the state is cross checked on SIS II system, photographed and finger printed and extensively interviewed.

How do you cross check people with no documentation before housing them in local communities?

How do they interview these people who have no documentation before landing them into a local community???

I agree 100% with this comment. I can see the marches getting bigger all around the country in the coming weeks. A couple of months ago I and I belive most people weren't taking too much notice of this but it is now apparent how big an issue it has become for Irelands future.

I didn't make any claim, other than to state the obvious, the midweek breaks that were available previously are no longer there.

It's simple economic supply and demand.

If you want to believe that hotels are holding prices below what they can achieve in a vastly reduced market then believe it away.

Less rooms = higher prices.

I can't dumb it down any more for you.

27 euros all inclusive a night in Turkey. A few cheap Ryanair flights one way and the jobs a good un.

I'd say the chimpanzee hanging from the trees would offer better solutions.

They are self obsessed gobshites

So we need an EU wide response to outdated rules that are being taken advantage of

I would point out that the fact we are an island means we should expect less without passports

Was never a believer ln conspiracy theory's but I'm truly baffled as to how this is being allowed to continue unchecked.

Are we seriously "obligated" to decant the entire 3rd world population into ireland ?

How someone with 2 functioning braincells can't see this is going to end very very badly for all is beyond me.

It's chaos of the highest order.

The genie is out of the bottle now I'm genuinely worried for the future of this country