Ireland's Refugee Policy cont. Please read OP before posting

I was specifically told the local elections had no reflection on the current election.

Big changes were coming and the people of Ireland were fed up with immigration.

Of course it was utter nonsense

Tell what to them?
Right wingers who ran on anti immigration are losing or have lost.

The main parties will have the most votes.

Immigration wasn’t an important issue for most people.

I looked everywhere but could not find information on 'permission to leave' for asylum seekers. Under no circumstances should an asylum applicant be given permission or be allowed to return to the home nation they claim to be fleeing from. Asylum, leave to remain and refugee status all should have a time limit, and the reason for the application is should be monitored. People seeking asylum should not be allowed to remain indefinitely like the plethora of examples we have had over the years arrogantly promoted by the likes of Sorca Pollak, Kitty Holland, and the leftist pro-open border papers. These 'new to the parish' stories are something else. They openly tell you how they got to Europe, how they traveled across multiple EU countries after their asylum applications for asylum are denied, eventually making it to Ireland.

Far, far too many are going home on holiday and returning to the place they supposedly fled from

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The Greens, whose leader has been responsible for filling hotels, B and Bs and guesthouses up and down the country with AS and IPAs and taking billions out of the tourism economy are looking like being eviscerated. Even O'Gorman is in huge danger of losing his seat (fingers crossed).

As I got no reply from @MegamanBoo could someone else please answer how they are vetted

I think for the moment people would prefer the mainstream parties to reform the immigration process.

Rather than give the vote to the anti-immigration fringe parties/loons. But as you say if thing continue on for a few more years, we could end up like Italy/france/german politics.

It's all good, we didn't vote in lunatics so that means everybody is happy with us continuing as is, pile the scammers in everywhere - lets make sure we hit our target of 20000 a year going forward, hopefully we can give free houses to 10k of those each year and welfare for life and the rest can enjoy outdoor living in giant tented cities. The people have spoken according to the cheerleaders.

Ah right.

This is stopping now so?

Never underestimate the power of a simpleton with a pencil inside a polling booth.

Housing was deemed to be THE issue of this election, yet the same 2 parties that have been in power since forever, and have overseen the shambles that is the property market in this country have romped home and will one again form the next government.

The biggest take away from this election is the lack of a credible opposition. Imagine what our youth, who we’ve forced out of the country in their droves, must be thinking looking in at those results tonight.

Bending over for every illiterate spoofer who rocks up to scam the system while exporting our best and brightest around the globe.

Disgusting.

Well if it doesn't I'll be equally as critical of whoever continues to pursue this extremely well thought out and completely sustainable strategy.

They are not vetted at all come in here from god knows where no background check and thrown into a hotel in your village

I think what many on here have discounted that two things can be true at once:

(A) People recognise that the asylum seeker situation post-Covid and post-Ukraine has been badly handled and has opened up a wider rethinking of immigration in Ireland.

but also..

(B) People recognise the global context of an asylum and migration crisis that has been happening across the developed world since Covid and in Europe (since Ukraine) and realise it's not all down to domestic policy — it's a difficult situation to handle.

In that context, people seemed happier to accept more centrist approaches of recognising that there is an issue and that balanced approaches are needed — instead of falling for the melodramatic alarmist stuff of politicians hating Ireland and being traitorous ghouls, or that "open borders" is actually a thing that anyone truly advocates.

And yes, like anything we consume on the Internet, there are probably a few people on here who need to ask themselves why their understanding of "the people", espoused over the past 2 years, appears to not quite be in line with the reality — and maybe they have indeed been stuck in an echo chamber.

I have to say I’m extremely demoralised by the election result. For the first time I abandoned the centre and gave a protest vote to Aontu. I disagree with most of what they stand for (abortion and nationalism, in particular) but I hoped to be part of a surge that would get them 8-10% of the vote, signalling to the political system that there was appetite for a conservative immigration policy. Alas not. It’s incredible that forty percent of respondents to the Exit Poll believe immigration has been a net negative (I don’t think even I believe that) yet still the only party to run on a policy of curbing immigration got hardly any of the vote. (Unfortunately I think independents hoovered up some of that dissatisfaction.)

But the problems of immigration won’t go away. The Greens may well be annihilated, but they like a phoenix from the ashes will rise again as climate change worsens. I expect the same of anti-immigration politics. I’ve lived abroad and seen the crime and ghettoisation that accompanies mass migration from developing countries. Once Irish people are confronted with the reality of it, our politics will swing in line with every other country that has experienced it. It’s just a shame that we couldn’t have recognised as a country the trajectory we’re on and mitigated some of the negatives before it was too late to do anything.