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

Which nationalist candidates would these be? Please tell me that the like of the national party or the likes aren't now being described as nationalist.

Yeah maybe they never met with the community and maybe made the whole thing up. I'd imagine there would be uproar in said communities with "I never met them" being chanted if that was the case though

Considering MLMD wants better engagement from the govt and came up with the logical step of auditing the viability of IPA centres it would be a fairly easy stick to beat them with if they lied about a community engagement

Logical step indeed. You would think such a step would go without saying long before any large number of people were to be brought into an area. I'm not saying she didn't speak to anyone at all, maybe she did, maybe she met with some in agreement with, or not completely against it. Something tells me it wasn't the "far-righters" in the communities that she met with.

FYI there are community groups saying just that, that it wasn't them she met with.

It's not clear who you are referring to but the main groups in Coolock have said they've not met with MLMD or SF.

The departments "engagement" consists of a glorified information evening for public representatives of said area. It's been made clear that the officials are there to communicate plans, not to solicit feedback or make changes based on public representation. Certainly not stop.

In other words "this is happening, deal with it".

Must be losing our doctors for some other reason then. And what about the nurses, doubt they're on such salaries, though I'd imagine they have the same bills as the rest of us. How do we keep them instead of a conveyor belt of Irish out, X in?

Wouldn't be a massive fan of the journal, interesting nonetheless!

https://www.thejournal.ie/junior-doctors-accommodation-6293174-Feb2024/

As it is being treated as an “emergency”.

Any “audit” would have to cover school places, crèches, GPs, hospitals, traffic, transport, social services etc.

Has anyone seen the various reasons why housing applications get either refused or overturned in court here?

Will the “audit” require a bat survey as well to ensure we aren’t disturbing them?!

If its so bad for doctors why do most of them come back to work in Ireland?

Agreed, a lot of politicians and people fail to realise that the current system is what is feeding the growth of the far right

In Demark the left wing social democrats adopted firm but fair policies when it came to Asylum seeking. They are one of the only countries in the EU that have escaped this crisis as a result and moreover are one of the few EU countries that is also not seeing even a slight increase in right wing politics

Coincidence? I think not

What a headache.

Can't have them in big centres like in Coolock.

Can't have them in hotels and B&Bs hurting tourism.

Can't have them along the canal or in mount street.

Can't have them in social housing jumping the queue of those waiting for years.

I can see why Leo done a runner.

English nationalism is always going to rub Irish people up the wrong way , very quickly they will praise the empire and how good it was ……. i dont need to finish the sentence

I agree on the document checking if that is the case. Ridiculous that it wasn't previously done given the fact you don't get to board a flight without one.

But as another user pointed out, is it not just optics? A person claiming asylum that has no documentation will be sitting beside a person claiming asylum that had a passport on them which was checked as they got off a flight.

They'll both wait for their claims to be assessed, and for somewhere to put them in is found, whenever and wherever that is.

I genuinely believe that the country needs to immediately stop taking in asylum seekers and anyone masquerading as one, until they get a handle on what's here already.

How can you stop people claiming asylum though? You still have to keep them somewhere until they're deported and it can take years to deport someone

And don't they just know it. I would call the current situation an emergency, some would disagree, but that's my position. And in an emergency, tough decisions need to be made, and if that's "sorry pal, we're trying to sort our **** out here before we help the planet, you're getting on the next plane back to where you came from"

Or something along those lines. And if it's not an emergency now, it soon will be.

Maybe ROG should put out another broadcast telling everyone to stay put, that he made a mistake after a heavy night out, and that the own door accomodation promised was the gin talking!