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

Just walked along pigeon house road and there's a few tents but also a presence of what would appear to be locals over the small wall where the tents have been pitched.

Look, maybe try taking a deep breath and venturing to the many other parts of Southside Dublin that are perfectly pleasant on a lovely sunny Thursday like this. Barriers have been erected to prevent an issue with people putting up tents along the canal near the IPO on Mount Street. It sucks ass — yes — but it's a blunt, clumsy short-term measure to try tackle the issue of encampments in the short term in that area while attempting to move the campers and deter further campers at this moment in time. The outcome of a portion of the canal walkway not being usable is obviously not good, but if absolutely nothing was being done about the tents, I dare say people would be complaining anyway.

The Berlin Wall has not been rebuilt in South Dublin. There are many, many places to go. Try Herbert Park, bring a picnic and a bottle of wine or a few cans of cold craft beer and enjoy the luxury of your life in the largely peaceful, tolerant, free and [today] sunny country you are lucky to live in.

Tents have now gone from pigeon house road, the last one looked like it was being dragged across the road to be thrown in the Liffey.

pics, ooter!!

Preferably on a plane home.

All very reasoned but surely it is a problem that will keep turning over until the IPO is moved out of the city & facilities for IPAs are taken with it.

The 6 camps the govt spoke about yonks ago, where are they?

When they are finally built, we could set up processing for IPAs there, along with doctor and mental health services etc.

We know the govt cannot process the incoming numbers, they have told us so. 14k annual application capacity vs 20k+ expected arrivals.

But if we have the large camps in place, we can accomodate people in sanitised conditions at least, whilst their applications are processed.

Continuing to process applications beyond our capacity via the IPO will just lead to the predicatble tent cities we have already seen, as all services are city centre based so people stay on the streets near the services.

There is simply nowhere for people to stay during their city centre IPO processing, nor is there sufficient available accommodation for the succesful applicants at the end of it all.

how do you stop them coming in though? there's currently no way of doing this. let's say we pull out of geneva convention so they can no longer seek asylum, that's probably a couple of years down the line. where do you put the tens of thousands that come in in the meantime? and what fellow rich country has sorted this out? belgium, holland, germany, spain, italy, USA, all have similar or much worse issues with this.

Couldn't take pics that time I was driving.

Just spotted a single blue tent on the footpath opposite the side of the 3 arena, wasn't there earlier

Simplest short term solution involves deterrents. Add more countries to safe list and pull the rug from under their funding.

Beyond this, emulate countries doing it better than us (which is what any private industry would do), and maybe have a collective think so to why we're bending over backwards for something written in 1952. How easily would the average Nigerian make their way to Dublin back then. Both population and technology have rendered this paper as completely outdated.

Not in this spot they haven't, I travel up and down it every day.

Or else buy Shares in the company making the tents !!

Sorry yes, I forgot that perspective is never allowed on this thread and that any positive outlook should immediately be shot down for the spiteful left wing attitude that it is and we should all revert to remembering that Dublin is horrible and Ireland is a joke and every nice thing has been shat on by something to do with asylum seekers.

Duly noted — I'll fall back into line.

What a f**king joke. The country is ruined. Asylum seekers bloody everywhere. A portion of the canal walkway is closed to block tents and that's it the city is now totally f**ked and this will clearly go on forever and every space of Dublin will eventually be closed because lefty do-gooders something something something.

Better?

Lads,

Has anyone heard or seen Roderic lately.

Can we set up a where's Roderic poll

No that's not where I'm on about.

They shouldn't really be there anyway, ivana said it's inhumane to be sleeping in a tent on morning Ireland this morning.

i don't have the answers but it doesn't end any time soon, there will be 10s of 1000s coming every year with the current rules in place, i was just asking dmakc where he would put them until the rules are changed