Immigration and Ireland - MEGATHREAD *Mod Note Added 02/09/25*

Didn't the UK have 1million people extra in the country last year. Jaysus they should be booming as some posters describe on here but they're far from that.

If over 80% of asylum applications are rejected they should be deported. Why should we continue to spend vast sums on these people when we have so many social problems?

A recession might wake the government up and start seeing us getting value for money instead of money being burned relentlessly for the sake of being woke.

I don't want my kids living in Australia in 10 years time and if they have families of their own, I don't want to be a stranger to my grandchildren.

Accommodation providers have been pulling out of Drogheda for decades.

It is the reason the "Love Drogheda" initiative was launched and as they highlighted.

Prior to 2020 Drogheda had 231 visitor accommodation bedrooms in the town of Drogheda across 5 venues. This figure has been reduced by 56% decrease.

It's basically a de facto commuter town now.

Like I already said it has a lot more problems to deal with than just lack of tourism, although saying that there is plenty of accommodation available there for the peak of the summer.

I hate what my country has become

I hate that the younger generations of Irish people are having extortionate rents, an inability to buy a home of their own, that billions of tax payers money is being squandered on a problem that is not ours and the government don't enforce any basic controls on our borders which is only making the problem worse

Law and order is done. The City centre of our capital city is now a horrible dump, our prisons are full, our health service is a disaster, we have monumental problems with schools, lack of teachers (wonder why?) Yet we continue to be forced down this path.

Our tourism industry is falling off a cliff because hotels are not being used for what they are designed for, a man in Tipp (?) Is being taken to court for living in a shed in his own land because he didn't have PP yet the govt bypass every planning law going to house asylum seekers in factories.

And now the govt what younger generations to live in sheds in their parents back gardens. Like that's a solution.

A recession will force the govt to start managing the finances properly, to actually run the country properly. The solution to everything is to throw money at the problem. That's not a solution. It just drives up the cost of living.

I don't want my kids living in Australia in 10 years time and if they have families of their own, I don't want to be a stranger to my grandchildren.

We need a monumental recession

How do you square those 2 statements?

The last recession drove a considerable number out of the country, there is nothing here for them now. Many won't return

It's a bit odd you are calling for a "monumental recession" so, isn't it?

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I dont agree with having a recession to sort this but i also don't agree with when there is a boom in this small isle why the windfall of such is just given to a certain connected cohort every time. It was developers last time now its this.

Indeed.

If policies need to be imposed on law-abiding Irish communities through violence, and the threat thereof, it could well be time to reconsider said policies.

I did not think I would live to see an Irish government implement bitterly unpopular, dangerous policies by force, in the manner of a colonial overlord, but I saw it with the last wretched regime.

This is what our government are building, at considerable cost, all over the country. And given their unwillingness to deport failed applicants, these people become a burden on the tax payers, they offer little to nothing to our society as a whole.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calais_Jungle

The challenges of dealing with migration are real and the downsides of poorly managed migration are real — but when you are at the point of saying "maybe we need a total economic meltdown to totally reset the country" then it's probably worth asking yourself if maybe you've gone a bit too deep into the wormhole of alarmism.

A major recession is unlikely to do much anyway as regards migration longterm — it may cause temporary warps in migration (ie, less EU or other wealthy country migrants) but Ireland would remain an attractive place for migrants from poorer countries. Plus, you would then still have young Irish people leaving, with skill gaps to be plugged.

We have a particular "problem" here in that we have a skilled, talented, highly educated and English-speaking pool of young graduates and workers whose skills are in demand all over the world. You can do things to make Ireland attractive them, but there's little you can do about it being a small island nation under rainy grey skies in the North Atlantic and there's a fun, sunny world out there with a whole array of things to experience. Young people are going to go if they have the chance and they always will.