Time for a zero refugee policy? - *Read OP for mod warnings - updated 11/5/24*

Me too. Ever watch the border control programs on TV that show the likes of the Italian and Australian border control who grill anyone who rocks up that they have doubts about?

With our lads it appears their story is taken at face value and it seems they just get directed to IP

No !! . I added that to the post instead of a making another post .Trying to squeeze something out of it are you .

So how are those Ukrainians , former asylum seekers or those on minimum wage going to pay for these houses . ?

I can entirely see where you're coming from but as I see it this effort was never going to be put to the housing crisis anyway.

I doubt Messi could even take a ball and run with it like that.

I’m one of those people who spent months commuting almost 2.5 hours a day, living with my girlfriend’s mum (which isn’t ideal at the age of 31), endlessly checking for a rare response on Daft and going to the God-awful viewings. And that’s just for renting — I’m still a donkey’s roar from being in a position to buy. Am I angry about that? Yes. Obviously. But there are two things here.

Firstly, on a high level, I don’t take it for granted that my personal concerns and affairs outweigh the fact that there is a world around me with all sorts of things happening in it — and that there are other peoples’ interests to be balanced against mine. The outright trumping by my interests of the interests of others, including refugees, is not what I want and I’d say a lot of young people feel the same.

Secondly, I think the idea that young people are genuinely “competing” with refugees for accommodation is a red herring. There may be some strain on supply of accommodation, but the idea that some place housing 100 refugees could be housing 100 Irish young people is theoretical rather than being something which would likely actually happen in reality. The blame for the housing crisis lies squarely on a longstanding failure to modernise housing policy and planning policy, which was been starkly exposed by post-Covid and post-Ukraine economic conditions globally. Being angry about refugees is a disproportionate portioning of blame.

Wow we are so lucky they are coming our way, ah sure we can put them to work on the farms like Brid Smith said.

Its silage season now they can drive the tractors.

I doubt that but I stand to be corrected.

O'Gorman was out recently trying to encourage them to go out into the big bad world, where they can avail of all the supports available to them from the govt - HAP etc

They don't seem to be in a massive rush to do that though

Ok thank you. So bigger centres and no policy change then I must have misheard it.

The only TD I can think of who has called for a cap on numbers relating in Inward migration has been Carol Nolan last summer.