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

We won’t though, because f all are being jailed bar a couple of token efforts

We’re already well past the point where we could’ve made a statement on this. Our system is fair but firm, do not take the piss or you’ll be gone in an instant. The horse has bolted.

Do you think the risk of immigration dividing the EU, as suggested by numerous serious political commentators, is ridiculous too?

€38 worth of deodorant, razors a week?

These extras are provided for when in state accommodation.

I believe in concentrating on what our country and our people need.

I don't agree with buying private housing for asylum seekers at all.

The rest is a bit too nihilistic for my taste .

We don't need or want another recession , just a change of direction which is on the cards no matter who is in power at this stage .

I don't believe you actually do want that really either .

You would think so since the government and their supporters have been shouting about "international obligations" since this blew up in their faces. Nothing but a tactic to try suppress any opposition like calling everyone far right

Some guy on the program called The week in Politics said there is a draw from them to came here and we have to figure it out why.

It looks to on again on RTE 1 +1 at 00.35. It's near the start.

So it was Jim o'Callaghan TD who said that

"obviously Ireland has a pull factor that is drawing people here but we haven't identified what that is but we certainly need to address it."

That was his words on RTE TV.

How stupid is that man, we can all see what the draw is, except him and our incompetent government. Should have addressed it 20 years ago!

Australia has basically stopped all illegal boat crossings from Vietnam and Indonesia. Indonesia in particular is quite close to both the NT and WA.

The vast majority of people claiming asylum arrive on student visas from China and Malaysia so are a completely different cohort than what Ireland receives.

The Government has now won a court case allowing them to indefinitely detain failed asylum seekers who are refusing to cooperate in their deportation.

Australia is signed up to the same international treaties so Ireland could easily do this as well. Then we wouldn't lose track or ask to self deport. We would be doing our European partners a service if we ensured they were deported back to their country of origin.

If this policy requires some sort of camp in the Curragh or elsewhere, so be it as their is plenty of space in the country.

The more you provide the more will come. There is an unlimited supply of Asylum seekers. The less we give the less will come. If we gave nothing at all for instance like China and EVERY African country then we would receive none.

Of yeah it's all the greens fault.

If the greens were not a minority partner in this coalition with the F's there would be no refugees.

Can't believe the green party have done this to us.

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