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

There is supposed to be a process whereby work-permits are only issued where no Irish, maybe EU, candidates are available for the job. But I'm not sure how robustly that's applied.

I think the idea behind a lot of the free-trade, globalization approach, (predominantly right-wing in origin) is that economies would not be hindered from being efficient by tariffs, regulation etc.

Instead it looks like people and businesses are just moved around to the lowest cost base.

I don't think that, operated like it is, it really benefits people.

One thing we could do in the morning to reduce immigration and take pressure off services would be to raise our corporation tax rates and close mnc tax loopholes. I'm not sure we should take all that responsibility in isolation, but we need to push for a global levelling, essentially to benefit ordinary people. I also think we could make some changes to close tax loopholes etc which would lead to improvements nationally.

Roderic has thanked Gardai for their support in a statement just released.

Thanked them for what?

Taxpayers money.

Couldn't work due to a bad back. Back was in grand shape when he was out murdering though.

Scumbag

He is a perfect example of the why the origoin of immigrants is of paramount importance. We need figures of the percentage of each nationality in employment and the percentage off each nationality that have been charged with a crime.

This information can then be used to form a logical and fair immigration policy.

For those who argue that he was a Romanian citizen and cannot be deported; that is factually incorrect as any EU citizen who has not found work within 3 months can be legally removed from the state.

It is a national scandal that he and his family were housed, clothed and fed by the Irish taxpayer for years and this directly led to the murder of Aisling Murphy.

As usual though, the civil servants and politicians responsible will not be held accountable and nothing has changed.

I think there's a growing awareness that 'growth for growths sake' has failed, hence you'll see the likes of NZ and Canada talking about reducing visas to relieve pressure on housing and services.

I think we need to move away from our corporate tax strategies over time. Superficially looking like a very wealthy country hasn't worked for a variety of reasons.

I shared this article earlier from a Nobel Prize winning economist on how we've gotten it wrong on free trade and immigration over the last few decades. It's not very technical and worth a read

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/nobel-prize-economist-angus-deaton-rethinks-unions-free-trade-immigration-2024-4%3famp

Concerned tenant, why oh why do you bother, suvgirl has turned into the cathy newman of boards, you'll answer and get a deflection, but but but and goading Continues

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Demography as it relates to ethnic and cultural diversity has implications in multiple areas, social cohesion is commonly cited as a phenomenon sensitive to demographic factors. A decline in social cohesion has significant political, social and economic impact; diminishing public trust, reduced democratic participation, declining welfare support etc. Interestingly and relatedly, there are indications that  ‘sociotropic’ or interpersonal considerations, rather than personal concerns, are responsible for an increase in antipathy to immigration in Ireland. 

You can't see any issues with taking in 250k net immigrants in 2022? No issues with housing them, services required etc etc?