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

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/department-responsible-for-housing-asylum-seekers-will-not-publicly-identify-staff-following-threats-1729570.html

The department of children have decided that they will no longer publish or identify any names of staff involved with IPAS accomadation.

They have also decided they will no longer publish the location of new IPAS accomadation... that would seem counterproductive to community engagement in my opinion and transparency with the electorate.

The department of children has seen its budget in 2019 go from 1.79 billion to 8.27 billion in 2025.

The single biggest percentage and monetary increase in expenditure in any department of the government.

Is that Carol Nolan who now supports FF/FG? She is a teacher and a landlord, so I suppose it was inevitable.

Either way she was speaking predominately about Ukranians, at a time when Putin was weaponizing millions of refugees to try and destabilise the EU as the Kremlins disinformation machine was trying to turn Europeans against them i.e. attack social cohesion.

She basically became a useful idiot of Russian aggression and propaganda. A more nuanced and experienced politician wouldn't have fallen for it. Well apart from Clare Daly and that other muppet.

do you remeber the last debate pre election on primetime about immigration where the far left parties blamed Peadar Toibin for raising concerns about immigration numbers and said his rhetoric emboldened the far right and caused a racist attack on a woman on dublin bus…

No. Surely there is video evidence of it?

I do like Peadar but he is another lad who takes a half truth and runs with it.

Both him and Carol were party colleagues at one stage.

Both campaigned strongly against womens reproductive health. Again not a great look in hindsight or back then really.

I can post more links if it helps

Please do.

How exactly does Carol Nolan support FF/FG? Herself and Mattie McGrath are independent politicians

Both of them ran a campaign opposing FG and FF policies.

Both of them voted for the new and extended cabinet.

De facto supporting FF / FG.

And what exactly was she doing?

New German government agrees to end family reunification from my early read, also turning arrivals back at border

Don’t think so. We have international obligations. We seem to be more obligated than other EU countries.

Again, it is not my opinion, she supported FF/FG, she is a teacher or was a teacher and is a landlord.

I have no problem with any of that, but the trope thrown out when it comes to immigration is that the government are all teachers and landlords making a fortune out of it.

Anyway, she was asked to explain herself in Tullamore the day after she supported FF/FG.

Sinn Féin Cllr Aoife Masterson has called on so-called independent TD Carol Nolan to explain to the people of Offaly why one of her first acts after being re-elected to the Dáil was to vote in favour of Micheál Martin’s new cabinet.

Cllr Masterson, a first-time candidate for the constituency in November’s General Election, said Deputy Nolan was elected on a clear platform of opposing the status quo yet has opted to vote for more of the same from Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael.

Cllr Masterson said:

“Carol Nolan was re-elected on a platform of opposing the status quo of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael but one of her very first acts back in the Dáil chamber was to vote in favour of Micheál Martin’s new cabinet.

“Deputy Nolan can’t have it both ways. Is she an independent opposition TD or not?

“What promises, if any, were made to Deputy Nolan to vote in favour of this cabinet of chancers?

“Her decision to do so comes on the back of her willingly propping up the grubby deal between Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Michael Lowry independents that sought to have government-supporting TDs sitting in opposition with Deputy Nolan’s technical group, taking away speaking rights from genuine opposition TDs.

“The people of Offaly deserve honesty from those they elect to represent them.

“They also expect those elected on an independent platform to hold the Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael government to account.

“It appears to me that Carol Nolan has turned her back on any pretence of being an independent opposition TD, and the people of Offaly deserve to know why.

“Voting against Micheál Martin for Taoiseach, but then hours later voting in favour of his Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael cabinet, is cynical and tokenistic, and designed to mislead constituents in Offaly.”

https://vote.sinnfein.ie/so-called-independent-carol-nolan-votes-to-put-fianna-fail-and-fine-gael-back-into-government-cllr-aoife-masterson/

I don't think she did explain herself.

Aidan Minnock head of GNIB has said the same.

The individuals making the big money have deep political connections. It will all come out down the road but it the meantime it's not simple for the politicians up to their necks in this to reverse things.

Like far right , looks like you finally admit it .

Carol Nolan is an independent TD. She is categorically not part of the government. There are 7 members of the rural independent group plus the Healy Raes who are now part of the government with FF/FG. That is it.

That is the 3rd time you have tried to insert that strawman into the discussion.

No one said she was part of the government.

Carol Nolan is entitled to vote any which way she likes as an independent TD.

I never said she didn't.

I am perfectly entitled to ask what her motivations of doing so were.

https://www.offalyindependent.ie/2024/04/10/new-government-is-a-recycled-status-quo-nolan/

That is an incredible 180 by any definition.

Personally I couldn't care about her either, it wasn't me who brought her up.

 The only people she will have to answer to in time for any decisions she takes while a TD are the electorate next time around.

I disagree, although she is the literal definition of parish pump politician she votes at a national level.

But I imagine you will be applying the same standard to anyone else on here that questions any politician going forward?

Any policy you have a problem with was introduced by either FF / FG or both.

Whilst your ire is being directed at me, it was the likes of Nolan who supported their return to government. Not me. I didn't cast a vote for either party.

But for some reason you think she is only accountable in 5 years time, but I am to blame now.

That is at best inconsistent.