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

That just leaves 30,000 NGO. Do you think we need that many for a country our size?

Who is Nick Delahanty?

Not much about him online apart from the fact he didn't get many votes in the last election.

How can Michael Martin row back from all he's stood behind.

Oh there's a problem now is there?

This is a man that stood in the dail and defended people arriving in Ireland without passports.

This is the guy accusing Niall Boylan of having no humanity when he questioned the madness that's going on.

MM needs to resign.

Politicians don't resign. Save your breath fpr cooling your porridge. I'll just happily accept a change in the message. It's a start.

I’m sure they do. In fact as you stated some people badly let down by the state rely very heavily on these NGO’s. For me and because the topic here is about immigration is why there is Doras, Nasc, Masi, Irish Refugee Council…. and i’m sure there are many more that have some connection and financial stake in this area. All getting some sort of Taxpayers grants I'm sure, how much I don’t know. All have CEO’s and i’d be pretty positive they don’t do it for free.

So my question is why do we have multiple NGO’s overlapping in their roles?

Attempted to blame? I think you are over reaching there chief. What other poster? Dont be shy, name and shame. And where did I say I disliked any of the NGO"s mentioned, please highlight where I actually said that in my post please. I still stand over why should Irish taxpayers fund multiple NG0's with more or less the same remit.

So much of this seems like imagined grievance however. When you talk about referring to a criminal who has committed sexual assault, there are few who would ever argue that you can't refer to them in unkind terms. But I'm not quite sure what you mean — are you saying that there is a significant body of people out there who think that a such a person can't be called a scumbag because it's unkind? Or are you simply referring to those who think it's a step too far to say something like "well what else would you expect from those dirty stinking [insert ethnic slur]"?

Being a rational person of common sense — which I am sure you see yourself as being — involves being able to see the perspective of those you disagree with. In this instance, there are many people out there who are saying that the parading of the ethnicity of an offender and a totally unrestrained approach to what is said about their ethnicity bears a degree of risk for other innocent members of that ethnic minority. They aren't saying it to protect the sex offender, they are saying it because maybe it's also not great for society if a kid in school is being told by other kids that he's a dirty stinking [ethnic slur] whose people are all dirty sexual deviant rapists because that's what the media and everyone in the community is drilling into their heads.

The balance is hard to strike between dispassionate statistical analysis of demographics / migrant crime and people using those statistics to make all sorts of conclusions which create genuine risks for innocent people. But people seem determined to conclude that lefty liberals act solely out of a desire to protect sex offenders and there can't possibly be any reason or rationale whatsoever behind it.

Should be, absolutely bananas.

We're not getting 3rd world cartel leaders.

We're just getting 3rd world criminals.

At least the cartel leaders would have their own money.

Just identify the overlaps on the immigration NGO's please and justify why they should be (full or part) funded by the taxpayer.

So nothing like Dubai or a Banana Republic?