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

It's for cases like this I support a zero refugee policy and very low levels of legal migration. We need a massive pause and we need to fast track remigration for anyone who steps out of line.

Absolute joke,the guy who made the threats to MLM and drew Harris gets 3.5 years and this sex abuser walks,something seriously wrong in this country.

Your question was,.

Why does it have to be either / or ?

I'll go again. If Paddy from louth and Sean from laois are both homeless and there is one bed available in a hostel, they cannot both get the bed.

Interesting take by Douglas Murray asking if Denmark can nip the asylum issue, why can't Ireland?

Mod Edit: Warned for uncivil posting and ignoring mod instruction re: anecdotes

Just saw some bit from ESRI report about migrants in Ireland that has been highlighted in todays papers.

Apparently 37% or Migrants spend 30% or more of their income on housing whereas it's only 9% for Irish people.

Which I'm sure some idiots will buy into and think that's awful and how hard on people emigrating to Ireland .

However this figure fails to take into account that a large number of young Irish people live with their parents so this reduces the money they spend on housing and a large number of Irish born people are in their 50s and 60s and above and so probably have their mortgage paid off and so spend little on housing.So this would explain the discrepancy between the figures, These situations don't apply to migrants.

Emigrating isn't supposed to be a situation where the red carpet gets rolled out for you, it wouldn't be that case for Irish people who emigrate to other countries so why is this report implying that it should be the case for people who move here.

They made it less welcoming for chancers, which are the majority of what we are getting now according to everybody. The prime minister has said they are actively pursuing a low refugee policy for the last few years (and has been called out by the EU over this) - one of the main policies that she ran under was to reduce immigration to the country. She has come out and condemned mass immigration to Europe and has specifically said it's a threat to the whole continent.

Deporting is not the only thing they did. It's just a tool they have used to help them achieve what they have specifically set out to do, which was no doubt driven by the mess Sweden made of it while everybody pretended it wasn't happening.

Whereas we have just gone along for the past few years pretending there are no issues, while the government and media have tried to label every person that spoke out and highlighted any potential problems as far right racists. And as seen by the link above we are still doubling down on the angle that people coming through proper channels to work are exactly the same as the 80% arriving that have no right to claim asylum (current figure according to the government themselves).

Tourist numbers down 30% in February compared to last year, January well down too but storm eowyn didn't help there.

Scary figures if they continue. We can thank our government for prioritizing the refugee industry and paying lip service to tourism. Like him or loathe him mc Gregors white house speech was seen by 60 million in a day n will no doubt dissuade a fair few yanks. Viral videos of incidents in Dublin recently won't help either.

Has anyone checked in with Donald whether we still have billions to squander on the refugee industry?