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

If the situation is what you describe then the migrants will be on social media telling contacts at home not to bother coming.

Yeah, that never happened. Surveying of their salary? What is that?

If you wish to rent you must supply the past three months of payslips, supply past three months of bank accounts, have a landlord reference, photographic identification, preferably have no pets and preferably no requirement for a car parking space.

I can 100% verify the anecdote I gave and I will not have heart bleeding lefties coming on here calling me a liar.

Roderics advertising campaign worked wonders. And you with an opposition party telling us we still have to take everybody just in wealthier areas too this entire island is screwed.

Let's be realistic though SF will just lose votes in wealthy areas because the rich don't want this either so unless they do a coalition with FF/FG it's hard to see it happening. Because FFG/Greens aren't going to piss off their rich voter base.

Things are getting worse now on the Polish border. More IPAs are coming than ever. A soldier was stabbed to death, allegedly by an IPA and Poland is sending more troops and building a bigger fence.

Unfortunately this is all just playing into Putin's hands. Europe faces greater immigration stresses, and with allegations of violence and Belarusian incursions an armed conflict could be triggered whenever Putin wishes.

Handling immigration properly is hugely important for a variety of reasons. The outrage agendas of the further right groupings can no longer be allowed to control the narrative in Europe or at home.

https://notesfrompoland.com/2024/06/12/the-renewed-poland-belarus-border-crisis-explained/

If anything it's the anti-immigration advertising campaign 😂

Despite it being quite clear there never actually was an offer of free housing for the world...

You guys keep posting that it's true.

So either you lot never really believed this BS, or the outrage is all that actually matters.

Have you actually read that white paper?

Because if you have, and you can't or refuse to see the connection in the laughable if not worrying rise in the number of AS and AS wannabes here and on the way, you need to give your head a wobble. A good one.

If he wants to be deluded and self-praising in the apparent good he has done in government then he needs to take responsibility for the obvious bad which he has done.

His department has made Ireland seem really attractive to AS and to scammers, and as a result, we're now the go-to country. How people don't get that is beyond me. It's scary that these same people can actually vote.

The words unprepared and unsustainable don't do justice in describing the situation.

Roderic O'Gorman has had four years of handling immigration. How is that working out?

Compare and contrast what I said and your statement.

Steenson said in his interview that immigrants were the cause of hospital delays.

Even your toned down interpretation is incorrect.

A rate of immigration is not the immigrant. Who controls the rate of immigration?

Steenson never stated the cause but rather the affect of increasing population.

A possible cure to the issue could be increased services in line with population growth , etc

As I said, read my previous comments.

Jesus Christ. Are you still at this?

This is a quote, from the video. The presenter asked him why the doors were opened up to so many migrants. He responded that the population has gone up and that there was a shortage of hospitals

Eamonn Holmes: "Why were the doors opened up so generously to migrants?"
Steenson: "Well we've gone from a population of three and a half million to a population of over almost 5 and a half million now, without building any infrastructure for, to, to deal with that. We have a shortage of hospitals, we have a shortage of schools but most particularly we have a shortage of housing"

Who do you think 'controls the rate of immigration'?

We're not North Korea.

Governments can take some measures but at the end of the day no country that you or I would actually want to live in is going to be putting machine guns at the borders, despite the dark fantasies some on this thread have.

Poland literally have their army defending their border and our EU border from illegal immigrants. After one of them stabbed and killed a polish soldier recently Poland have no made it easier for the soldiers to use their weapons.

Poland is a country I would definitely live in and it's far superior to Ireland in many ways. You can walk around their city centers and feel much safer then Dublin.

Saudi Arabia is another country using weapons to defend their borders. I wouldn't personally work there but many very educated Irish people do.

Poland's issuing of a right to shoot is worrying but appears very much a self defence measure in the face of Belarusian agitation and manipulation, rather than allowing the murder of people peacefully crossing the border to live elsewhere.

Go down that route, as some here clearly favour, and it won't be long before Irish people are legitimately seeking asylum elsewhere. What happens when there's no, or far fewer 'illegal' migrants, to spread lies about and blame for all societies ills?

New home completions down over 5%. On second quarter of year. 1800% increase in jordanian AS. This shite is so sustainable

The world n its counsin must need asylum in ireland. Must be the only safe place left on the planet.

"In the first six months of 2024, there were 12,730 new-dwelling ­completions, down 8.6pc on the same period last year"

https://m.independent.ie/business/irish/fewer-houses-may-be-built-this-year-as-completions-stall/a1051571631.html