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

Hard to admit but the Irish government doesnt care about us and cares more about refugees and the EU than us .

What Irish community wants undocumented refugees hanging around all day getting dole money and a free gaff?

Plenty of skilled migrants coming to the country, without whom we would not be able to function.

Asylum Seekers are not the same as skilled migrants.

Number of irish leaving each year is broadly the same as the numbers returning, though the ones returning are more likley to be parental age rather than 20's/early 30s.

Brendan O'Connor said that journalists are being attacked in these immigration protests. One had her car damaged. Sunday Papers review so not sure which ones.

I know there are issues with the media but there is zero honour in attacking journalists. It should never happen, no excuse.

More Irish people are leaving this country than returning. There are indeed skilled migrants coming here with many working in the health sector where massive shortages in staff remain. Asylum seekers are generally from poor countries with poor education systems, and many are here to stay. So you have skilled leaving, some skilled immigrating and now vast numbers of unskilled also immigrating.

What's the plan for the unskilled? Give them free jobs, houses and benefits for life? Because I don't see what the alternative is.

The skilled migrants like the phillipino nurses the lebanese doctor whom i had an encounter with, superb, the indian tech workers all great,they came in legally BUT they all go home they send money home and their ultimate goal is to have a big saving in order to live in their native countries with their extended families. working here means they can educate their kids in the homeland. They will not be here to pay our pensions like our own natives, nor will their off spring they will be in their various countries claiming a pension therein lies the crux of the whole issue. We are being falsly told they will pay for our old age they wont already Germany is flailing with a social welfare budget for migrants remember a million were invited in .

A government minister only thinks in the short term while he has a bit of power he feasts and strategizes on how he can stay in his little seat he goes with the flow to endear himself to bigger powers and votes with them, eats with them and climbs the greasy pole all the while ignoring what his blind ambition does to his constituency & the country in general . Ivan Yates says this in his memoir. The minute a person gets into government he spends the next 4 years working on how to stay there.

Irish leaving and returning is broadly the same. About 30k each way, annually.

Asylum migration is certianly an issue, i agree. We have to find a way to balance our infrastructure against the numbers of asylum seeekers arriving and there does not seem to be any coherent plan to acheive this.

If they choose to go home to india, they are still paying taxes whilst they work here and are supporting our economy today. Paying our pensioners, building our roads, hospitals and schools etc.

If they decide to go home to india, their job is taken by someone else who then pays our taxes for us.

The real risk is when the job itself dissapears, and nobody pays anything into the irish coffers. Thats when the system collapses.

I would usually agree with you. Message more important than the messenger. I'd agree 99% of the time.

But when it comes to Iona, they are complete religious freaks. They would have Mother and Baby homes still open. Very anti-women even though they wheel out Mrs Stein to prove the opposite. No, Iona are firmly on the Ignore list.

I think Quinn himself is a psychopath. He will certainly use the immigration crisis to his own ends. Don't be fooled.

The numbers leaving and returnng differ by about 1-2 thousand in the past 5 years .

Ireland doesnt have a mainstream political party that would take that approach. FG are the centre right party, but in reality, they are centre left on social issues, along with FF and SF even further left.

There is a big difference between "pushback" and attacking journalists. It's an absolute No-No in my book. Zero excuse. Violence or wilful damage against journalists is beyond contempt.

Do you really think the thugs attacking journalists knew who they were or read the Sunday papers?

I don't agree with Censorship either. Have you noticed the inflammatory language on Boards?

See its all happening in dundalk now today

Govt need to grow a pair and show some leadership

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Search Dundalk on twitter

ROG saying migrants are still going into Coolock . Lol