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

It's going to blow SF chances at the general election, they just don't know how to read a room. They were the same with the referendum.

What awful opposition parties we have.

It really doesn’t matter what they are saying. . They know, Everyone knows we cannot build an infinite number of houses modular or otherwise. They are arguing for the sake of arguing. That’s it really. It cannot be done and it will not be done. They will plough on with this building lark until they have to admit failure eventually .
What happens then is the real question we should be asking.

From reading this thread that wouldnt go down to well from a popularity point of view. It seems it's a bit insulting expecting them to live in modular homes. As one poster described them - "glorified sheds". I imagine the headlines would be how the government don't care about gardai and nurses since they are telling them to live in "glorified sheds".

Again, the council would disagree with that reading what they said in that story. The have even stated they have grant planning permission to log cabins.

Meanwhile, Tipperary County Council Director of Planning Sharon Kennedy responded to Cllr McGrath’s comments at last week’s county council meeting by stating that it was made very clear at the December meeting that the council doesn’t have a policy against modular homes or log cabins.

In fact, in the last few weeks she had seen planning permission going through in relation to one of these types of developments.

However, that doesn't mean you can built a log cabin without permission and expect to get away with it.

She was on an X vid recently could be seen helping pitch up a tent and shiftily moving aside when she saw the camera approach …and I get the source of that vid is not everyone's cup of tea, but surely if these tents keep being removed then she's breaking the law by assisting in putting them back

I was never into politics and said once to a person some years ago that ask my if voted about something that I don't follow politically stuff and leave to people who to vote. Thinking the world vote in my best interests.

That has all changed in the last few years and I honestly don't know how this country is still OK.

We have tax income from foreign companies that we would be broke if we didn't get it and that won't last forever.

We people giving out about data centres that these companies need. Are they for or against these companies.?

And spend money on loads of useless stuff that are projects of the green party.

When the money tree or trees rather falls there will be a big wake up and all responsible will have legged it and setup for life.

Olivia Headon?

You introduced garden sheds in a conversation about modular housing. They do not meet building regulations for habitable buildings and will never get planning permission for use as a residential building. They are not in any way comparable with modular housing being constructed by the government which do meet building regulations.

The government have however included an exemption from planning for modular housing for refugees and asylum seekers. Joe and Josephine Soap cannot avail of this exemption to construct a modular house for themselves, paid for by themselves. The government are using this exemption in Clonmel and cowboy developers like in Coole are trying to exploit this exemption. Guess what? Joe and Josephine Soap are pissed off, hardly surprising.

You either have no awareness of planning or building regulations in Ireland or you are arguing in bad faith, deliberately trying to derail the conversation.

I think we all know the answer to your last line.

What I can't understand is why people respond to these accounts at all.

Are you totally unaware of what's going on here? Must it be spelled out, resulting in threadban for whoever takes it upon themselves to point it out to you?

If we had 100,000 empty houses, I wouldn't want eve one used for housing an Economic migrant as they are of no benefit to the state and have no right to be here.

Illegal immigration needs to stop and this issue will take care of itself. Hire more people to decide on AS applications and change the laws on appeals to limit the number.

Remove all Government funding to NGO's that coach migrants and are run counter to current Government policy.

Our housing or lack of should have nothing to do with Asylum seekers though luckily for us we have a massive shortage right now.

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We are a joke of a country.

What hope would we ever have to police our borders when policing a few hundred meters of a canal towpath appears to be beyond us.

If she was able to get herself to Ireland, why couldn't she just go and live somewhere else in Botswana, far away from her father? Or even go to another African country? I mean, why does she need to come to Ireland in order to not have her body parts sacrificed?