Time for a zero refugee policy? - *Read OP for mod warnings - updated 11/5/24*

Does anybody know how much capacity is at Crooksling and City West?

The govt have cleared the tents again at the canal, but how much capacity is there at those camps and how quickly will it be eroded.

I wonder if the IPO functions will be moved to the camps ultimatley, in order to stop numbers that cannot be processed congregating in the city centre.

whatever. : "Imprisonment is hugely expensive last figure I can recall is 100k per prisoner per year but it serves as a deterrent and punishment to the individual and a protection to wider society "

Well not only that but a prisoner inside for 1 year costing the state/prison service 100k or whatever it is now with inflation, saves a hella lot of money with them not being arrested for other crimes within that year. And I don't just mean arrest, its the wider cost of them stealing something/criminal damage they may have caused/medical treatment/reports for somebody they've assaulted/ funeral costs of somebody's death they played a part in/free legal aid they benefit from whilst under prosecution/social welfare payments the scum receive. All of that would be astronomical and yes fool me and you the taxpayer are the purchasers of those 'goods.'

Build Thornton Hall fcs

Meanwhile while they throw money out and waste taxes my elderly friend is waiting 26 hours on a chair in A and E . I want to cry or scream

Fair enough, we sanction them, cut off all aid, cease trading and pull out peacekeepers.

So an already impoverished country with already potentially dysfunctional state administration and already in potential conflict situation is driven further into those problems. Result? More people leave. More people seeking a better life elsewhere. More people claiming asylum.

We somehow manage to cut that country off from the world and somehow manage to prevent migration from there? Great. Then they flee into the neighbouring countries and start the process from there.

Punitive measures against these countries sound tempting. A kind of iron fist hardline shutdown that puts some manners on them. But all we gain from it is one more exacerbated situation somewhere in the world that increases the demand for migration.

Scandalous what they are doing with our money

Playing devils advocate, they probably don't have the time to clean, disinfect, dismantle, repack and reuse each one.

But the waste is maddening while we are supposed to take carrier bags of bottles and cans to machines that spit them back out at us.

i don't think they'd be sleeping rough if they were given all of their demands in fairness

They will not be able to fence off every section of the canal.

they can just move further up the canal, there's green space at either side all along it, or there's a park at wilton terrace, but that might be locked at night

They've cottoned on they won't be accommodated if it's a tent scattered here and there, but if there's a shít ton of tents in one area, then that forces the hand of government to act.

The whole fiasco is sickening to watch. And it's absolutely obliterating the housing market.

Myself and my partner in our late 20's were renting for a short term last year and have since bought, thanks to our flexible, secure employments and modest savings aligning with the opening of a new housing development within our budget. I wasn't taking any chances on the day we viewed our now home however, and placed a deposit on it immediately. Most of the properties were already gone; a matter of hours later and we mightn't have had a house to view at all. Bear in mind that this is Donegal, which as far as my knowledge goes, was traditionally the last resort for non-local buyers outside the county up to recently.

Reading posts like yours, I'm conscious every day that we're bloody luckier than most of our age group. Although it sounds ridiculous, it almost feels like survivor's guilt. It angered me hugely that our rental house was raised by €200 per month for the following tenants, another young couple after we left.

Aside from myself, only one of my close friends was also in a position to buy recently. The rest are still stuck in their childhood bedrooms. Ditto for 95% of colleagues in my age bracket. Hardworking and honest people who've done everything right and get up each day with the best of intentions. Few if any, can look forward anytime soon to the special feeling of achievement and independence that comes with buying and creating your life home.

No matter what area it is anymore, houses have become priced completely out of reach for young people. I don't at all blame your child for leaving; we'd more than likely be doing the same if things hadn't by blind luck worked out for us the way they did.

irish homeless have never seen the resources or political will that is evident with this ipa crisis.

Yeah that worked really well the last time.