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

Um, yes it is - let’s talk about the last year or two please, the timespan since this crisis has arisen

I use the actual definition of significance https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_significance relevant to this discussion, not my problem if you don’t understand the concept of significance in statistics

I have no idea how it compares, but I’d wager a great deal that it’s better than 40% with a primary education. If you have anything to suggest otherwise I’d love to see it. Actually if you have anything whatsoever to back your idea that asylum seekers are in fact making a significant contribution to our construction sector I’d love to see it please?

Yes I’m using the term that actual statisticians use when sampling from populations to try and draw conclusions in relation to those populations like large groups of people as we are discussing here. You’re using the vernacular meaning. Glad to clear that up.

No, that’s not what it means. Significance is a threshold, It’s either significant, or it’s not - you don’t get to add your own little addendums

I want to talk about the last year or two because that’s the timespan of the crisis that is the subject of this thread?? Why do want to discuss what it was ten years ago before it became an issue?
It’s because you want to try and minimise the apparent impact of the large RECENT increase in asylum seeking by diluting the data with the years before it became an issue
Ha people can see exactly what you’re doing

Bacik would be awful as MOJ. We don’t need a champagne socialist in that role

But we're not sampling from populations here? We're talking about the size of one population in comparison to another, not whether some characteristic of the smaller population is identifiable in the larger.

It just looks like a weird attempt to backtrack tbh. It's like handing my wife a 5euro voucher for her Christmas present and telling her I spent a 'significant' part of my present budget on her.

As for your wanting to only discuss the last two years, how could you ignore the 8 or more other years of the housing crisis, if the point is to discuss capacity and cost of housing?

We quite literally are, the size of the asylum seekers population cohort this year is literally significant in relation to the size of the total net migration population. I can’t put it anymore simply.

No it isn’t. What is your definition of significance please? What’s your arbitrary number at which something becomes significant?

Because we’re discussing the impact of the asylum crisis which only arose in the last couple year on the pre-existing housing crisis? How can we relate a crisis that didn’t exist at the time to the housing crisis ten years ago?

Anything on your point that asylum seekers are actually getting involved in construction and are building houses? You seem to keep forgetting to say anything about it

Given what is going on in Syria at the moment and with Bashar al-Assad now gone, this decision by the Department of Justice makes sense. It follows on from yesterday where Britain, Germany, France, Italy and several other European countries said they would freeze all pending asylum requests from Syrians.

Yes true about McEntee, I think Peadar would be good but I do not think FFG will go into government with SF and Aontu likely Labour or Independents

daughter of an asylum seeker. The father came here to make glass or something . Like a lot of current asylum seekers didn’t go to neighbouring country they could better identify with but came to Ireland where they know we can’t handle them.

I don't remember saying she was ..just that she is well qualified for it

People have preferences for others but let's not tell lies about people's qualifications or not .

Did Aontu not join the ‘Technical’ group or do I have that wrong?

RTE won't like the Syrians applications paused .

Theyll be all upset poor old RTE

Nick Henderson on now isn't too happy about the decision