Immigration and Ireland - MEGATHREAD *Read OP for mod warnings before posting*

The "far right" bingo card is almost complete.

No they are not. Why do people continue to talk about things when they can't even grasp the basics.

But the government have a plan to increase the population by 2040 via immigration because the birth rate of the country is 1.7, to grow the population it needs to be above 2.

So what is it? Mass immigration or they have a lab to grow babies hidden away somewhere?

Why do we have to cover our whole countryside in houses to facilitate the world and it's mother to come here and live?

This idea of a housing crisis independent of the fact there has been rapid inorganic population growth is such nonsense. A sustainable, sensible amount of housing should be built, for a sustainable population prioritizing Irish people, born and bred here.

We are building 30-40 k houses per year. In the Celtic tiger we built so many houses that they started knocking them again (ghost estates), it was a mess.

The other gas thing is the pro-mass migration cult bleat on about building infinite houses, you just know the vast, vast majority of them wouldn't know one end of a shovel from the other. Who's going to build the infinity houses? Oh we can bring in migrants to build the houses….it's a vicious circle, an absurdity.

But the government have a plan to increase the population by 2040

Can you please link to this plan? Or tell posters where they could find this plan?

I never said that , and that is probably why you have not had an explanation .

This is exactly the bad faith discussion I was talking about.

And it is lapped up on this thread .

You don't address the post I posted but make up things to attack instead .

Agree with the latter comment .

But it's not " chicken and egg " scenario .

The housing problems and services issues predate immigration .And far outweigh it .

of course it is… it’s puts pressure on rental properties and increased competition for house buying. The fact it’s never discussed when they talk about the housing crisis is mental… any discussion is shot down as dog whistling or far right rhetoric.

Did someone say dog whistling or is that a lone cry in the woods ?? You need to show substantial proof for that claim .

So is the minister for housing lying or just mistaken? Have you notified the housing minister that he can't even grasp the basics?

I'm pretty sure it's the housing ministers job to talk about housing tbh.

A lot of fine words remains to be seen how well it works .