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

Are both Thurles ones cancelled? Great news if so. I was reading there were two new centres going into the town.

Yea maybe they realised the money tree is in jeopardy due to Trump. Its pruning season

I see the black paddy was interviewed on O'Connell street and voice support for the problem with immigration debate. Everyone can see it at this stage tbh it's not even a debate. The only debate is what to do with it.

Wish they pay for my repairs due to lack of road maintenance in my area

The thing with the Exceptional Needs Payment is that it is reliant upon the discretion of the Community Welfare Officer. So while I am sure that there are Ukrainians out there who got money for car repairs this would be far from common. Just like there were no doubt asylum seekers getting money for new prams (the old dumped at a bus stop story) and Travellers getting money for communion dresses these would be rare instances that grow legs the more people hear about them.

Now some sort of audit to see how common these instances are would be interesting.

If there is possibility to scam a system that gives free money, human beings will find it. Doesn't matter what nationality they are. The scheme currently in the news, arises when our naivety and caring nature is manipulated by those who, we are constantly told are coming here for genuine reasons.

People have been conditioned into believing that everything about immigration is amazing and there are no negative side effects, afraid to rock the boat, because if they speak out they'll be rounded on.

Thankfully we're entering a time when it's finally more acceptable to be a dissenting voice. People are pushing back.

I'm not sure that we need any fact checking at this stage.
Have we not come to the realisation already that they are probably availing of the Additional Needs Payment, which they along with every other Irish person on social welfare, are entitled to apply for?

So you could very easily rock up to the dole office and ask for car repairs. Your Community Welfare Officer may well laugh you out of the room but there is also a good chance that they could say Yes.

So contrary to the anti-immigrant/racis… crowds whinging, it's not a case of the Ukrainian Refugees getting free car repairs because Ireland is now such a woke/liberal utopia.

Black paddy said he's been in Ireland 24 year's so if he has kids he probably realises how the completely unreasonable levels of immigration are going to negatively effect their lives going forward. He also clarified that comments he made such as "we're taking over" and "there won't be any white people" left were either done in gest and as he put it "just look around you".

No just keep adding an infinite amout of people to limited resourced country.

What could ever go wrong.

They're cutting 10000 civil servants shortly. Thats the start.

Blame brexit all you want.

Anyone with half a brain, including the immigrants already here trying to find places to buy or rent know we can’t build our way out of the current and projected population increases.

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/0815/1464985-population-growth-exceeds-home-delivery-by-almost-4-to-1/

Hopefully common sense prevails, and we look at ways at scaling back immigration (NOT STOPPING IT). before some unpredictable populist politician is eventually given a chance to swing the pendulum way in the other direction.