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

Spot on again Kaiser.

You're on a roll!

It was never a trade body. The original idea was that it would quickly evolve into a political union. Enhancing trade was seen a good way of bringing the people of Europe together and ensuring there wouldn't be a war in mainland Europe again. The chief aim was peace and political cooperation, not putting extra money into people's pockets.

Our right wing English nationalist friends known as 'Brexiteers' completely misunderstand this and think they joined a mere free trade area in 1973 which subsequently changed (when in fact the British media in the 1975 referendum was full of discussion about the EEC already being a political union).

Ireland inc is mighty wasteFULL- gutting perfectly adequate homes for each new tenant. Paying huge rents with taxpayers money without a murmur. .. penny wise and pound foolish.

The idea that destroying perfectly good tents and replacing them with new when they are very foldable and moveable by those who occupy them - no joined up thinking it seems. A useful saying from the past. - “Wilful waste means woeful want”

The dereliction grant has failed IMO - it was successful in one thing though driving up costs for properties that meet the criteria, just like the HTB.

Bang on with the rest though.

Yes, true. But the GE polls have generally been pretty accurate.

Referendum polls, not so much.

There are undecided voters however, as a previous poster pointed out. So all to play for.

Not sure anyone would have predicted Harris being as strong on implementing the asylum rules as he has been since taking office :

There's a thread about it here somewhere ...

https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2024/0515/1449419-asylum-applications/

30K expected this year…extremely close to what the government’s goal on housing completions is

This Influx isn’t going to slow down, so we’re only ever going to be treading water in our existing housing crisis, we’ll never catch up at this rate

At what point are all the people getting high off their own supposedly virtuous farts gonna take their heads out of their arses are wake the **** up?

It is not sustainable. We are never going to be capable of housing all these people. Is there no sense of reality here? Can guarantee most of the cheerleaders are all home owners sitting pretty - easy to act the virtuous one when there’s nothing to lose, meanwhile they prefer a bunch of randomers with no connection to the country over their nation’s youth when it comes to housing access. Despicable.

i don’t understand why they don’t set up a task force to deal with this issue . Experts in logistics and people who know the problems and solutions . NOT NGO’s but a panel like they scrambled together when Covid threatened us .
We dont need clueless TD’s and civil servants fumbling around with no experience of this kind of looming disaster

Nor do we need NGO’s with skin in the game playing their games

Come on for heavens sake get this done

It's all about money n lucrative contracts for food n housing

"It shouldn't matter who is behind them", yet you're quick to point out Wilders in the Dutch coalition's response to asylum seekers.

The virtuous will play the man when it suits them.

The policies are superficial and relatively ineffective as individual policies, in Green policy terms, they are as effective as an additional cycle lane.

You're way off Furze. In 2022 alone, 237,000 non Irish gained pps numbers. Some are on work contracts etc and not permanent but the majority are staying around. Work visas, student visas, family reunification etc, there's lots of ways to get a foot in the door.