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

Its Ireland - where who you know and the ability to fail upwards seem to be the only requirements to be a politician.

MM has been a TD for 25ish+ years? Has probably seen it all at this stage and still hasn't a clue what is going on. He is more concerned about pleasing the EU and SF living under his bed that the issues actually facing the country.

And the rest of our government minsters are worse.

Can anyone here, put their hand on their heart and say they would trust Martin, McEntee, O'Gorman, Donnelly, Foley, Ryan etc to even manage to paint a wall without messing it up? But some how they get to run the country.

Check out the question at 8 minutes into that video! I've been wondering for a while how come we don't have a system to deal with people that arrive into the country with no papers. Any other country would have them in court and booted out rapidly.

First point is irrelevant given the immigration crisis is in its political infancy with all parties currently singing from the same hymn sheet. Its clearly nullified for 2025.

The basic voter isn't even aware of the parties looking to tackle this issue (nor have they the candidate numbers).

Mind you, the rise of the independents could be seen an early indicator. Labour's AOR yesterday warned against politicians looking to garner easy votes by tackling immigration, so clearly the vote must be out there in what seems to be a colluded effort of rule making by those in the dail; "I won't if you won't"

And as someone who thinks we've taken in too many, what is your solution? The whole idea here is we have a problem that needs solving, otherwise you don't see the problem and are fine with what's coming in.

She does, she just won't say it.

the only way we will get them is by a FOI like everything else that is negative.

if a government minsiter can choose to suppress the advice of the AG in persuit of their own gain we can be assured they will do anything to save face.

God this was so good.

This is why I'm a big fan of McNamara.

McEntee has to be one of the most incompetent ministers we've ever had. Watching this video reminds of a deer lost in the headlights, the face on her could tell a story.

I'm OK with the grillings provided that people accept the fact that not every question can just be answered at the drop of the hat and are open to hearing what the answer is once the person being questioned has collated the relevant information.

Maybe there's a reasonable explanation to why these transfer decisions were not followed through, maybe there isn't (though the numbers we are talking here are very small). The direct comparisons to France and Germany are probably a little unfair given those countries have a longer experience of dealing with larger nunmbers of refugees and asylum seekers over the years, whereas Ireland never has until 2022. It simply has never been a big issue in Ireland and a proper process, given adequate priority and resourcing, might just not be in place..

Either way, the State should be ensuring that it follows through on these where it's possible.

"Did you know that anyone who travels to Ireland under a false identity and who has subsequently been granted permission to remain in Ireland, can apply to the Immigration Division of the Department of Justice to revert to their ‘true identity’?"

She's not being asked to account for her departments ineptitude.

It seems she's being asked to explain the failings of an EU wide system, which is in the process of being replaced, presented as if this problem were somehow isolated to her department.

I suspect that either McNamara didn't do his homework, or he's trying to create a scene (and wasting time) to play to his audience. Who, judging by this thread are lapping it up.

I'm ok with a grilling too.

But the person doing the grilling should be honest in their intentions and reasonably in possession of relevant facts.

From those stats even Germany only managed to implement 10% of agreed transfers in that year, and several smaller countries performed like Ireland.

The zagging here to defend McEntee is truly incredible. There's no other way to spin it, that was a car crash performance, she had no answers for anything put to her, the only time could muster something was to deflect responsibility. This is just the immigration part of her role, we're not even talking about street crime. Time and time again we've seen her become the deer in headlights when questioned. Referendum campaign debate, the "this is not about the streets being safe" comment after the riots, yesterday's meeting.

Truly delusional.

Just saw the grilling there now, she's pathetic. She was asked for figures 2 months ago and still doesn't have them. Couldn't explain why only 3 were returned after 188 were accepted by other countries, tried to explain differences in our and Germanys figures by saying Germany was a bigger country but as McNamara pointed out, not 2000 times bigger. Couldn't explain why there are suddenly prosecutions for no documents, saying thats a Garda matter. She's minister for Justice not for agriculture!

How can anyone defend or have sympathy for McEntee is beyond me, it is clear she cannot manage her department and cannot provide figures that she was asked for more than once f

https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/04/24/fewer-than-100-deportations-of-those-refused-refugee-status-since-start-of-2023-mcentee/

Under a pre-existing agreement, Denmark has an opt-out from EU laws under the pillar of Justice and Home Affairs, which means it does not partake in EU immigration and asylum policy. Ireland has a similar opt-out clause under the pillar arising from the Lisbon Treaty.