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

So you have read the terms and conditions of this scheme?

Utter waffle in this post.

to someone who has literally just rocked up with no connection to the country seems off to put it mildly. 

You haven't a clue about this scheme its not even paid to an individual. Its to a group.

https://rethinkireland.ie/current_fund/connected-communities-fund-2025-2028/

You tell me how we will have the workers like we did decades ago.

That is a statement of fact that I am expecting you can tell me how.

The government pushed for people to go to college and trades were not as popular.

Our young are moving to Australia because they can't get housed.

The people who built decades ago are retiring each year and are not being replaced.

We will not be able to match the current output in a decade if they don't encourage Irish to come back or not leave in the first place.

So you tell me how we are going to go from 35,000 a year to 60,000 a year?

Less people years ago, more people and workers now. People go where there is work, Irish will return if the government start large scale housing projects. Workers already come here from many other countries.

Don't know why you want to put obstacles in the way, it's not difficult stuff.

According to the cso, approx 47,000 people were employed in construction in 2000.

In 2005, there were 242,000 employed in construction.

Today there are approx 198,000.

https://m.independent.ie/business/irish/numbers-working-in-construction-nears-peak-seen-two-decades-ago/a424203401.html

Of course mass scale building can be done. It was done when the population was half the size it is now and the country didn't have a penny to rub together.

A recession could be around the corner so mass scale building may not be required.

. The government really should have majorly reduced this debt with all the extra "windfall corp receipts" and the apple 14 billion - instead they expanded the annual budget from €68 billion a year 2017 to the current estimate €120 billion a year (an increase in government spending of some 75% in 8 years).

2017 Total Expenditure:€68.9 billion

2025 Total Expenditure:€120.0 billion

https://whereyourmoneygoes.gov.ie/en/2025/

Exactly! As a father I want this country to be safer for my kids.

I want our corrupt government to build a new prison so they can actually jail our offenders but this is the immigration thread so I didn't mention that.

It's hilarious how we're just blaming immigration when this is the immigration thread so only aspects relative to immigration should go here.

And as the stats show our immigration policy is making this country more dangerous for women. If women support this system it's like turkeys voting for Christmas.

She will create division in this country. Dangerous ideologies she promotes. This bollox has no place on this island our ancestors fought so hard to unite.

Germany will halt all refugee admission programs and won't create new ones, as part of the new coalition's plans, — Reuters

Deportations to Syria will begin, starting with criminals and potentially dangerous individuals
It will also now take minimum five years to gain citizenship, instead of three.

The sea of change continues to sweep through Germany. Why was it any other way through? Think of all those people who were hurt or killed by their previous policies.

In relation to Ireland do we now need to prepare for an even bigger influx? It should be an EU wide policy. No more refugees accepted. We've taken way more then enough.

STOP we cant really continue until you explain this

our corrupt government

How is the democratically elected government corrupt?

More misinformation

as part of the new coalition's

There isn't a new government in Germany yet.

The fulltext of the article you are using for misinformation also points out the information is sourced "according to a document seen by Reuters".

In uncomfortable reading for some on here, it turns out that 54% of unemployed in Germany have a migration background. Amateurs, don't they know you're supposed to enrol them in some makey uppey training schemes to take them off the books and not register them as unemployed but in education and training?

So that when people point out that they are not contributing but getting all the benefits some immigration defenders can point out and say well ackshually that's untrue. Maybe the German equivalent of the journal.ie can do a fact check?

About 881,000 people in the country are considered to be long-term unemployed after not having a job for two or more years and 52 per cent of them are immigrants or the children of immigrants.

So, 48% are German? Nearly 50/50. Nothing shocking there. Basically the same rate of unemployment in the German and non German population.

The study also shows that 82 per cent of unemployed foreigners in Germany have no completed vocational training.

Perhaps those makey uppy training schemes might actually be a good idea, to you know, help people to get jobs?

I am at a loss here do you blame the poster for blatant lies or Reuters or have you a blind spot . ??

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germany-temporarily-halts-resettlement-un-refugees-dpa-reports-2025-04-08/

Ah yeah, of course , I didn't think of that. Too sunny today😁 my maths is clearly sh1t. Thanks for that.

All the more reason to get them into education!

Seeing as there's an absolute meltdown going on here I'll just post the source where I found that information. A very pro western, Pro Ukraine telegram page who are using Reuters' as their source.

This shocking statistic aligns with recent studies which suggest immigration especially from poorer countries is proving to be a massive burden socially. It's because of this the likes of Sweden and Denmark completely re-evaluated their "everybody's welcome" approach. We have this waiting for us down the line IMO.

A zero refugee policy Europe wide is needed. I'd make exceptions for refugees fleeing a war in Europe but I don't agree with the system that entails. Ukrainians for example got far too much, military aged men shouldn't be allowed in when Ukraine wants them and it should only ever be seen as temporary not a permanent migration from the country that needs it's people to return when the war is over.

Royalcelt can you respond to this issue in thread, rather than continue to send me DMs?