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

who’s educating the ukrainian kids?

off topic admittedly…. But I empathise 100%. In my son’s Dublin school there is a huge shortage of teachers. A lot of the present teacher's are preparing too leave Ireland as there’s zero rental accommodation for them. Irelands loss , Australia etc gain.

Can’t really blame them after looking on daft ie recently. Jaw dropping. Teachers would need to be on 75k to comfortably survive the prices

They are not forcing? they don’t need to… with the ridiculous amount of money they are waving at them…

There is terrible waste in housing IP in private hotels.

But as much as there's no 'magic money tree', neither is there a 'magic refuse entry' tree.

The noise, the emails, the face to face is doing nothing. It's pathetic.

Kids coming home crying. I laughed at her at the start as we would have done anything to not have a teacher back in the day.

But kids are different now so I get it.. junior Cert year too. it's nuts.

“Housing experts” . Who are these people exactly you refer to ? Are they politically independent “experts” ?

There is absolutely no way that mass immigration, be that Ukrainians or IPAs is not having a dire effect on our domestic rental prices. Even Airbnb prices (regardless of private room or entire let’s) in this country are off the charts compared to Spain , France , Germany etc.

The connections are clear to see if you are indeed willing to actually have a logical look at the overall picture.

I’m not blaming the immigrants themselves though. I’m blaming governmental policies that enrich the Landlords , investors and private developers that you mention.

The government policies are the cause , the immigrants are the effect .

And some hoteliers take the deal, some dont.

No point moaning D4 doesnt have hotels for IPAs. The owners are choosing not to do so.

If Killarney or wherever are renting their hotels to the govt, have a word with them, not the folks in Dublin.

There should be more affordable and cost rental homes, not just social homes.

When the govt takes its part 5 allocation for new builds (or rents additional homes from the developer, as they are inclined to do) they should be bringing 50% of these homes to market as affordable or cost rental - so teachers and nurses can live in them.

These professions earn too much to qualify for social housing but too little to rent privately.

That needs to be addressed until we have enough housing for everyone.

Yes absolutely more support is needed for key workers. The Government promised extra teachers and extra teachers were provided. I assumed that would decrease class sizes but instead in our school and I'm sure in many others, class sizes exploded and these extra teachers are teaching English as an additional language to small groups during Irish, Religion etc. In no way as a mainstream teacher was I supported. One 5th yr class has a minority of English speaking students. I have no training in teaching students with little to no English. The Department offered no training or support other than a list of common words and translations in Ukraine. It's an extremely difficult and frustrating environment when you are doing your best to prepare students for Leaving Cert and it slows the class down immensely. I never expected that this would be how my teaching career would end, frustrated and disillusioned and I'm not alone. Schools are losing well established and talented teachers up and down the country to early retirement from burn out. I imagine grind schools are rubbing their hands in glee.

Of course there is a humanitarian element.

Violence is not an appropriate response, ever.

Your posts smack of 5G, conspiracy theorist nonesense. Teenage Classroom stuff.

Lets see what O'Gorman proposes for the longer term state owned solution to asylum accomodation needs.

I would have a sense that the more peripheral parts of the country were not seen as important when it came to housing refugees.

There was massive change in North Clare and a severe hit to tourism, but barely a word about it. There really was a very good response from the communities, but little assistance.

When one hotel in Drogheda was secured the actual Taoiseach was calling for some dimension of tourism activity to continue.

The difference is very striking.

O Gorman and the government are not reliable sources so whatever he proposes is irrelevant. Only actions taken and if they work are relevant.

I agree with you that a longer term plan should have been implemented much earlier.

The asylum issue is going to expand hugely over the next few decades. Anyone thinking that the Ukraine issue is a blip has their head in the sand.

So we certainly need a long term plan.

He should be made to follow through on implementation, certianly.

He and the department will be accountable for that long term.