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

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https://www.newstalk.com/news/private-accommodation-for-refugees-certainly-running-out-head-of-irish-refugee-council-1419664

They are not. Who will people vote for instead?

A wall along the 6 County border. Great idea 👍🏽

These dangerous people who keep saying Ireland is a rich country are causing untold damage.

No wonder they keep arriving when they hear we are a rich country.

Then I hear a man crying on Newstalk yesterday as his son is dying from scoliosis, his back is curved 140 degrees while no other country in Europe let’s a child’s back go past 50 degrees before they get a chance to operate and save the child’s life.

We’re a rich county though right?

PBP are a small minority party though and unlikely to be ever in power. The idea that NGOs are telling the government what to do doesn't hold up for a moment. They (presumably) would be opposed to Ireland opting into the EU Migration Pact, something the current government is actually doing as we speak.

Heard McEntee on both Newstalk and RTE this morning, in plugging this new immigration pact she kept making the point that one of its advantages is that those in genuine need of our help will get a quick decision. Given that there are probably billions in the world in need of our help its almost like an open invitation to come to Ireland , make your case and you get to stay. Once again she was unconvincing in explaining about how we would deport failed asylum seekers.

More lies from the anti-immigration brigade ;)

I've offered several proposals on how we might improve the situation.

a) We should campaign and make it known amongst would be asylum-seekers that Ireland is not as wealthy as it appears. We have a terrible housing crisis and our health services are no where near what would be expected of a modern European country.

b) We should limit where possible, work and education visas to lesson pressure on housing and services.

c) We should move away rapidly from private hotels for housing IPA's.

d) We should use our position within the EU, OECD etc to campaign for equality measures in the global south, particularly targeting tax-havens and corruption fed by western investment.

You can pour cold water over those all you like but you cannot say I haven't offered proposals.

Covid showed us nothing is hard for a government.

If there's a will and a crisis they can do whatever is deemed nessecary.

Stop making out like there's no choice here.

There always a choice and currently the government and a loud minority are choosing to inflate this $hitshow.

FG'ers have already began to jump ship. They are getting it in the ear on doorsteps as the problem is now beginning to effect their middle class voting base who themselves didn't care as long as the issue only effected working class communities. Cute hoorers like Coveney and Pashal stepped aside and let Harris be the face of the coming collapse.

You're talking about the Ukrainian refugees that have come here I assume and not asylum seekers?

Yes but like a lot of other posters on here, you are merely stating an aspired outcome and brushing over the practical realities by just saying "implement that".

So, detain people. Great. Where do we detain them? Build centres like the ones in the UK where most detainees end up simply being given leave to remain anyway?

Deport them? Sure. But with whose co-operation and how do we perpetually secure the co-operation we need?

Part of the problem is that people look at this issue the wrong way round. Once people arrive in Ireland, the reality is that there isn't really any easy answer on how you deal with it. Focusing on that component only leads to loose-fitting solutions. The closest thing we will get to a solution is by cutting the problem at is source — which requires a lot of things to happen that actually are achievable — better co-operation with other European countries, securing the external borders of the EU and constructively working with source countries like those in North Africa to provide incentive for preventing crossings and working with us on deportations.

That's where the focus should be, but people prefer to focus on the end point (ie, the point an asylum seeker arrives in Ireland) because that makes it easier to find someone close to home to blame for it all.