Immigration to Ireland - policies, challenges, and solutions *Read OP before posting*

• In this case, absolutely acceptable way to behave considering the imposition on our country
• It was not random, he found an economic migrant , that's who he wanted to talk to. Good Man for highlighting this.
• This Economic Migrant is a clear bullshit artist and should be sent back when he came. He told us himself for gods sake.
• In what way is that Man perfectly legitimate? and if that's legitimate, then we have deep disfunction in our systems.
• The fact that 10's/ 100's of thousands like him are here IS the real issue I'm afraid.
• 'My problems' I've done everything right, I'm one of Leo's early rising Big Pharma types, have a good career and spend most of the week sleeping in my **** van at work in Dublin because there is no accommodation. I pay a **** ton of taxes and get nothing in return. I have a right to be pissed off.
• ALL of the big issues in this country are being made much much worse by your open door , anyone come in and take everything attitude to our sovereignty
• Honestly, it feels if a person can straight up support all of this, you must have skin in the game frankly, its Kafkaesque....

Asylum applications in 2023 were down versus 2022 and represents 2 in 1000 people. Excluding Ukrainians, which has dropped about 50% from 2022 to 2023.

But go ahead and claim its the biggest issue facing the country because your social media feed tells you it is.

OK, do I have this right- rampant immigration to our tiny Island is not happening then?

The Hard Left want infinite immigration. They just don't have the balls to be honest, hence all the nonsense from the handful on here.

You are referring to accommodation — of course people have to be accommodated. What do you propose we do with them? Put them on the street indefinitely?

The analogy question you pose about Gaza is just ridiculous when taken in the context of the fact that the very reason there are Ukrainian refugees in Ireland at all is due to the fact that nation states across Europe and the world have committed to help each other and to co-operate on this issue. So if 2 million Gazan refugees were making their way to Ireland we would be hoping to rely on the very same commitments that Ireland has undertaken re Ukrainian refugees and that the obligation is shared even if Ireland is a safe country. Poland alone has been dealing with 1.5 million Ukrainain refugees/asylum applicants and, ironically given the high pedestal many seem to place Poland on given its stance on migration over the years (despite benefiting from the migration policies of other countries for many years), the fact is that of it weren't for other countries like Germany, Czech Republic and all the others — like Ireland — doing their bit then Poland could have been looking at the catastrophe of several million refugees fleeing into its territory.

Lads, I think you done it, here is the answer :)

That is patently untrue and expecting any of us here to accept this is utterly insulting to our intelligence as fellow citizens.

OK well then why don't you just go right ahead and elaborate on your point with a solid suggestion. The official government policy of the Irish State should be to send refugees straight to the streets as a warning for other refugees — is that the suggestion? Do they get a blanket at least or would that not be deterring enough? How long do you keep them on the streets? How do you deal with legal disputes emanating from the rights of these people under international law?

It'll be over 1,000 living on the streets in a matter of weeks.

I asked you a question. If 250000 asylum seekers arrived this year would you be ok with that?

Say 225000 male and 25000 female.

Why are you deflecting by crying strawman. Like the last lad crying bedwetter.

Either you'd be happy to have 225000 single men arrive or you wouldn't.

It's either yes or no.

I think you have that wrong! It's the Hard Right who want immigration and the more the better. There's big money in it and cheap labour. Shut up and don't question your betters.

The majority of us stuck in the middle will be shafted and left paying for it.

I think we agree that he hard right and hard left are are bad as each other! Extremists.

Sensible center anyone?

If that indeed was the reality, then the system needs to change as its damaging the fabric of our nation.