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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,306 ✭✭✭spillit67


    It depends. This comes back to the question of how many we should accommodate. In the scenario of an “emergency” though, what it seems of limited value to build capacity for the kind of numbers we have been getting.

    What the ultimate cost to the State will be ultimately will take years to figure out and will have a degree of subjectivity involved. Of course the best argument against hotels comes down to the planning one- and that so many ancillary businesses are impacted by non tourist use.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,327 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    And what effect would burning the factory have on those 500? Would they evaporate into space? Will they think "Oh, no, my life's dream of being accommodated in a paint factory has been taken from me and now that they are going to put me into my own apartment instead, I think I'll just go back to Dirkastan instead"

    The only thing that will stem the flow of chancers is if they are processed quickly and deported quickly. The logistics of doing that will not be helped by scattering them in tiny groups all over the place.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,021 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    Is this a serious post or a wind up to get a reaction?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,790 ✭✭✭✭Burkie1203


    Our capability is measured by money, not by actual physical resources such as housing etc.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,327 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    Well maybe the people who process them just didn't think of that. You should write a letter to the minister outlining your plan. When he has it implemented - shouldn't take him more than a week, he can then communicate the steps to all the other countries that also didn't realise the exceedingly simple solution to the problem.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,790 ✭✭✭✭Burkie1203


    But the govt don't want to process them quickly. Do you not get that?

    They want to shoehorn these people into irish society for financial gain of themselves and their friends. And the people who pay the most for this will be Irish people. In our own country.

    The violence and fires are a direct consequence of the govt working against their own people.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,327 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    Well I guess it is all out own fault for electing such people into power. Members of the illuminati or New World Order or whatever they are.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 381 ✭✭giseva


    Sure why was the hotel there in the first place?

    The point is there's places that have very little in them as is, and a large hotel being taken away from normal use benefits the hotel owner and everyone else who has a stake in this new economy, but does f@#k all for the locals.

    It also breeds further resentment and prejudice and gives a voice to loons on both the far right and left.

    I would also like to see purpose built accomodation, for the purpose of detention. Yes it may cost, but surely it's a better use of tax payers money than the current game of pass the parcel going on. It may also serve as a deterrent to scammers thinking of coming to Ireland.

    The dog on the street knows the majority aren't genuine, and even if every single asylum seeker coming to Ireland was, so what? Help, where practical. Helping the planet isn't sustainable.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,790 ✭✭✭✭Burkie1203


    FF FG Green, Labour, SD, Sinn Fein

    Minimum Two of these will be in govt after next election.

    Who do we vote for, to change things up.

    We are the turkeys and the only option on our voting slip is xmas



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,509 ✭✭✭sonofenoch


    It's how 'progressive' liberals carry on, mock their own mock traditions mock Christianity etc etc with no awareness of how fake and boring they sound



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,327 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    The paint factory, when renovated, would have been, for all intents and purposes, purpose built accommodation. You are kidding yourself if the gurriers attacking the door of a small building in Drogheda would also not be attacking a construction site up the road where a holding centre with accommodation for 500 people was being built.

    If people want to complain and protest, they can do so. If they want to dress it up as faux concern for the local tourist industry in Drogheda then they leave themselves fairly open. If they want to pretend they are concerned for local hoteliers who can't host private events, then they should realise that maybe they shouldn't complain about the same hoteliers getting money for hosting AS instead. Which is it - are you concerned for his livelihood, or do you begrudge him a livelihood?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,327 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    We need more patriots. I've seen the footage of those brave men in their tracksuits and balaclavas really teach those doors a lesson with swift kicks. Celtic or Liverpool jersey optional, but the Irish flag is not. All Gaeilgeoirs versed in Irish history and mythology.

    I often think, when I see such brave patriots, how lucky we would be if they joined our defence forces or Gardai, or even became nurses or teachers to pass on knowledge to the next generation. But we cannot be selfish - those people have a much greater duty to global society. We cannot ask them to pause their cancer research or work on ground breaking technological advancements. To do so might be Ireland's short term gain, but would be a long term loss for everyone.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,654 ✭✭✭downthemiddle


    Can you give us your definition of “our own “ please?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 381 ✭✭giseva


    Do I have a problem with a hotelier making money? No, I don't. I have a problem with how that money is made.

    Protest? Are you for real?

    Regarding the site in Coolock, I'd imagine there'd have been issue taken by some in the community if it was a full on, secure detention centre being placed there absolutely, but perhaps far less than the issue taken with the current state of affairs.

    A secure detention centre wasn't the proposal. There was none. It was and still is, this IPA centre is happening, deal with it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,327 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    You would need to elaborate on what you understanding of "secure detention centre" means to you. Because under international Human Right's law - which Ireland is signed up to - we cannot just arbitrarily lock up and detain each and every AS any more than the State could arbitrarily lock up and detain random citizens. That's not something that can be changed without leaving those agreements in their entirety.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 Tourmaline24


    It's not "faux concern". I don't care about the owners of the D hotel who will pocket €13m a year of taxpayers' money. It's the knock-on effects, the loss of footfall for the shopping centre next door and other businesses, as noted in a recent report which estimated the direct loss at €6m.

    The asylum seekers (who we know are not genuine, let's be honest) don't contribute to the local economy. They will consume massive resources and give very little back to a town which already cannot provide enough jobs, accommodation and services for its people. Again, I find the bad faith assumptions hard to take. What's "faux" about not wanting your home to become unrecognisable to you while you see your tax money being spent on an endless influx of strangers from every corner of the globe? It is the reaction of posters like you which is "faux" and contrary to normal anthropological behaviour of in-group preference and prioritising one's own family and community and country.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,327 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    That's fine. You don't want them in your town regardless. I have no problem with you having your opinion or similar ones. I've already stated that. The difference between you and other posters is that you are not trying to pretend that it is because of the "local tourist economy". They are the ones bringing faux concerns.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 381 ✭✭giseva


    Pretty sure this has been asked before, but do you think the thousands of AS, genuine or otherwise, already here and those making their way here, are going to make strides in the area of cancer research or ground breaking technological developments?

    Rail roading AS into areas with their own issues already only gives said scum a voice. I feel I'm on a roundabout.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,411 ✭✭✭Tenzor07


    This is the best post I've seen on this thread in quite a while and sums up the situation as it is now.

    Each day we seem to be spiralling into more dysfunction and small protests in North Dublin are getting broadcast internationally making Ireland look "Racist" or "Violent" and allowing opportunists like Tommy Robinson to jump in and fill the voids our out of touch left wing politicians are leaving.

    I'd ignore the Barstool posts you see on here, don't give it oxygen.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 381 ✭✭giseva


    Oh, if only we had a government who could draught such emergency legislation in the interest of our country.

    I think you agree that there's a major issue with the numbers coming in, and what's being done with them. What's your view on the best course of action for this country?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 Tourmaline24


    It's both. The local economy has been undeniably hurt and the local community suffers a strain on services, healthcare and housing as well as a lessening of their safety and wellbeing. The two things aren't mutually exclusive. Drogheda and its surrounding areas have had a longer history of this than most, with Mosney holiday camp being converted to direct provision in 1999, generating vast wealth for its owners while draining huge resources from nearby communities.

    I won't engage with you any more as I think you're trying to goad and provoke.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,327 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    The answer to your first sentence is already in the post you quoted - Ireland is already signed up to International Human Rights Law which would prevent an arbitrary blanket detaining of all AS.

    I already said my view - they need to be processed as quickly as possible. That likely means proper reception centres being set up and an army of pen-pushers processing the applications and then deporting the failed ones as soon as possible. There is no problem with setting up reception centres per se, you just can't arbitrarily lock people up 24/7 in them.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 381 ✭✭giseva


    Forever? As in, should this processing continue indefinitely? Is there a number where Ireland says, thanks but that's enough now?

    Because nothing you've suggested stems the flow in my opinion.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 381 ✭✭giseva


    Deport them to where? Many have no documentation I'm told.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,327 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    Nothing stems the flow unless you want to say "no more asylum seekers ever again. No matter how genuine". And if, say, a famous Russian dissident escaped a prison there and made his way to Ireland, we would send him back, knowing he would be executed on the tarmac upon arrival. We either have a system for it or we don't. You can't have a system where "only genuine applicants are allowed to apply" because genuine or not can only be determined after the application is made.

    Think of disability benefit. We have that for a reason. There are genuinely many people on that who need it and struggle on it. And then we have people in their early 20's on it who are on it for lactose intolerance (not wanting to put too much light on a fella that ended up killing himself). Loads more on it for questionable sore backs. One solution to cutting down on the chancers is to have better processing in place. Another is just to eliminate disability benefit for everyone. But if you do the latter, you make the genuinely disabled people's position even worse. So do you want to keep processing applications forever - or do you want to cut off all the genuine ones?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,496 ✭✭✭RoyalCelt


    What if it's both reasons amongst other reasons? What if the reasons are why they don't want the people there.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,327 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    Where are you are going to deport them after the gurriers burn them out in the other model where you don't process them?

    You see, technically, while going though the asylum process, they are allowed to stay here. It is not illegal for them to be here. Once they are denied, then their status becomes illegal. They could, at that stage, be charged under immigration laws and locked up. Some might suddenly remember where they came from when it is a choice between proper detention and going home.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,327 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    Well if you have a reason, or multiple reasons, then just say that. There is no need to pretend it is another reason.

    If the State wants to build a reception centre down the road and I suddenly become concerned that a particular type of snail might live in that field, it's probably safe to say that I just don't want those people to be near me rather than trying to pretend that I actually have a sudden mission in life to save the snail.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,496 ✭✭✭RoyalCelt


    But processing ASAP just means they stay here and it frees up more places for the next 40k to arrive. We can't take more people.

    What we need is to stop recognising those international laws. They will bring this country to it's knees.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 381 ✭✭giseva


    So forever then. So we take on the world, or far more than we can or should.

    Would that make us an IPC, International Protection Country?

    What does that look like in 1, 2 or 300 years from now for Ireland?. A thriving nation, or a sewer for every countries unwanted and scammers to suck dry whatever resources are left?

    Maybe the "Irish" will be seeking asylum themselves then wha!



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