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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,200 ✭✭✭BlueSkyDreams


    Its a simple question.

    Do you want controlled migration or no migration.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 914 ✭✭✭nolivesmatter


    This just made me a little proud of our civil servants.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 285 ✭✭smallbeef




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭Musicrules


    Immigration has been great for Ireland. Our towns and cities are far more diverse and the new culture many of us have encountered has been amazing to experience. I can't think what it would have been like without it. I do remember what it was like in the 70's and 80's, we've come a long way since then.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,236 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Cairns on VM1 now on about immigration.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,606 ✭✭✭tom23


    watching it - A total spoofer. The hand gestures, the sincerity.



  • Posts: 4,501 [Deleted User]


    We can go from 32k to 50k per year in 2 years, mostly social and affordable.

    Seems reasonable.

    Soc Dems will deliver where FFG fail.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,236 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭Gen.Zhukov



    Holly Cairns

    So in the last 10 days -

    She was on TWIP on RTE (Sun 11th) where she made a tool of herself with the pre-famine population stuff (to great amusement around here I should add)

    A few days later, she was on with PK and immigration was not brought up at all

    She was on the RTE lunchtime show This Week (Sun 18th) and immigration was not brought up at all

    She's on the Tonight show and immigration was brought up - Her heart is breaking for the economic migrants and she wants to solve the problem with modular homes and because the 'Great one' (Catherine Day) has spoken, we must open the reception centers asap -

    Absolute woke bullsh!tter



    If anybody was thinking of giving these charlatans a bit of a vote (or transfer strategy) please don't



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭Musicrules


    The right wong hate Holly. No real surprise there. She's a very impressive woman. Far superior to anyone in government.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,606 ✭✭✭tom23


    Don’t hate Holly. Lovely lady. My heart would break also for immigrants especially when I’m building a house as big as her on her family owned large farm. Hate? no. Woke oh yes? Spoofer - definitely.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭Musicrules




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,606 ✭✭✭tom23


    past of wake.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,228 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    It doesn't exist. Everybody who uses it can't define it.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,236 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,606 ✭✭✭tom23


    Just like the far right - it’s doesn’t exist.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,058 ✭✭✭✭briany


    Immigration will probably continue at pace. There are no politically popular solutions to the issues facing western society. Native populations are aging because people are having less kids for various reasons (it's too expensive or wanting to be unshackled being popular ones), so there are simply less native born people of working age.

    So you can have immigration in order to keep the tax base up and keep growth going. Or you can tell people that whole retirement thing is going to have to be rethought.

    In the meantime, expect more populist rhetoric from politicians while they remain quiet about the above economic realities.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 601 ✭✭✭DaithiMa


    It makes no difference whether I am talking about asylum seekers or refugees brought here as part of a programme. The fact of the matter is that there is no housing available for either category at the moment. The supply of hotels has almost been exhausted and the tents have been deployed.

    What is the next programme/scheme? Bulk modular housing projects in the backarse of nowhere to end the tent crisis in Dublin? That will definitely end well for all concerned...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭Musicrules


    It's very strange. Why use a word that you don't know the meaning of? Holly is woke, what does that mean?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,222 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog



    D Hotel in Drogheda saying they can't have dual use hotel, asylum seeker accomodation due to "child protection issues".

    A public statement that certainly won't be welcome by the government nor, I'm guessing, reassuring to locals anywhere really.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭bloopy


    I'm finding it fun how Leo and the boys are trying to redirect the anger back on to the business itself.

    Self serving fuks will sacrifice anyone as long as they don't get the blame (I would include the refugees in this also when the whole thing eventually goes belly up).



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,046 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Holly Cairns and the Soc Dems are full of it - complete spoofers.

    It has been said before both worth repeating - a Vote for FF FG SF Greens Labour Soc Dems or any of the loony left headers - is a vote for continued open borders migration

    - don’t expect anything to change if you vote for those parties -



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,021 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    Why don't the government or NGO's start a volunteer scheme where people can register with them to offer a room or rooms to take in asylum seekers or refugees? I am sure there would be enough people considering the overwhelming support for the government on this according to some. This way the government kills few birds with one stone, they will have plenty of accommodation and they wont have to use hotels and not destroy tourism and it wont cost as much to house the asylum seekers and refugees. Also it would allow the immigration services to have an address for the Applicants. The people taking the people in I am sure would be well compensated by the government for this act of generosity. We did it for Ukrainian refugees.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,046 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    There was a very small take up on that scheme. They quietly dropped it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,228 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    There was quite a large take up and it was badly managed.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 324 ✭✭Gamergurll


    'Well compensated'

    This confuses me, I thought the pro-refugee crowd were all about 'be kind' and 'goodness of their hearts', why in the name of God do they need compensation?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 558 ✭✭✭Gussoe


    Additionally it would help towards integration of these migrants.

    Should be an easy sell.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,021 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    Regardless of a persons motive for doing it, whether it be from the goodness of their heart or to make a buck the government should compensate anyone taking in Asylum Seekers and or Refugees. They are all bailing the government out of a problem they caused and these people will incurr extra costs of another person(s) living in their house. It still wouldn't as expensive as having to enter into contracts for hotels. Everyone is a winner then.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 558 ✭✭✭Gussoe


    Naw the compensation part would be using taxpayer money that would then disrupt prices within the rental market, that's where this goes.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,007 ✭✭✭Sunny Disposition


    It's a bit much for the UN to criticise Ireland for not having accommodation for everyone coming. Over 100,000 people arrived from Ukraine alone in two years, the numbers from other countries rose too. Not alone are there not houses to spare, hotels across the country are full from the effort, the criticism is unfair and unrealistic.



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