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

Two types of men are disproportionately responsible for murder in this country. Foreigners and people with previous criminal convictions.

If you deport the unemployed/gig economy foreigners and imprison the criminals (particular those with priors for drugs and assault), you would instantly make a huge dent into the murder rate in this country.

Femicide is a policy decision that is pushed by Marxists.

Actually men have made this country safer for women. Men.

People arguing that immigrant men are shouldn’t be here because they’re likely to kill women is as silly as arguing that immigration hasn’t given Ireland a housing crisis.

It’s such a shame that we don’t discuss it with reason and not try and introduce these ridiculous points.

So are you suggesting the arrears should be waived or they pay no rent and ramp up social house building regardless . Migrants are more likely to be dependent on social housing and there is an influx of 80k Ukrainians to accommodate. You don't seem to understand a lot of the time .

969 cases rejected a backlog of 14557 to end of 2023 and 1077 new asylum applications in February 2024 alone ,not impressive!!

Mr. Trump can you take your billions back before our idiot NGO's do any more damage to our country - thanks in advance. Up to 60k a year grant for 3 years, only stipulation is no Irish need apply.

And who have spearheading this initiative? Dr. Ebun herself - we sincerely hope you have been suitably enumerated for this work Dr. Ebun - we are not worthy!

Not just any migrant, one with a massive chip on her shoulder, who boarders on racism towards Irish people and topped off with a serious case of entitlment.

So you are against a scheme to help migrants involved in community initiatives because you don't like one particular individual.

Someone sure has a huge chip on their shoulder and I'm not sure it's who you think it's.

This is an example of iniatives where immigrants are giving back their time to their new communities in Ireland and you are angry.

I think we can all make our own minds up on what the real reason for your anger might be.

Very good but unfortunately doesn't answer my question.

Would you have an issue if a scheme was launched and the main stipulation was Irish only can apply?

Is a yes or no answer really Robbie

This!

Many of us have been screaming this from the rooftops for the last 2 years, including Pat Kenny. The Green Party wanted to have an open doors policy for migration yet decrease our carbon emissions! Laughable. Why does nobody in Government stand up and ask HOW??

Now county councilors are being told to do whatever it takes to rezone lands in their areas. Indeed the Govt has said it will go over the heads of county planners(because of course Government know best!)

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/special-powers-to-force-the-rezoning-of-land-for-housing-will-see-houses-built-closer-to-town-centres/a620864590.html

When people say we need to build all these houses to accommodate people coming here each year.

Do they not realize their are 500,000 adults living at home that should be getting a house before anyone rocking up here who are not real asylum seekers, 80% I thought I read Martin said.

The reason this has gone on without much visibility for so long is we have such high ownership of houses where adults can live at home.

When people say we just need to build more do they realize that lads in their twenties and thirties are going to Australia and we don't have the people to build all these houses like we had a few decades ago.

Life is not like a game of Sims where you magic up houses and resources such las hospitals overnight.

Ebun Joseph is a proven grifter.

She was offering training courses on how not to be racist that had such a terrible lack of interest that she ended up offering huge discounts just to get people to pay attention to it.

Now she's getting paid taxpayers money to run her race grift full time.

Money for old rope.

I don't think anyone has said we need to build more to just accommodate people coming here.

There are thousands of homeless people and as you say thousands more that cannot move out of their childhood homes. There is a housing crisis in this country that has been a long time in the making. That's why we need to build

What a really silly question.

Why would I have a problem with a suitable scheme having a requirement for someone to be an Irish citizen.

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surely you can see even the optics of a well funded scheme directed only at one subset of people is discriminatory to anyone else. Switch that around and see how it looks. A scheme to give a grant, which is not repayable as it’s not a loan, to someone who has literally just rocked up with no connection to the country seems off to put it mildly. I would think having a taxable work history should be a method that captures each subset of people as eligible .