Immigration and Ireland - MEGATHREAD *Mod Note Added 14/08/25*

Round and round and round we go.

As has been stated many times, if you have a qualification and your skill is required, come get a visa and you are more than welcome. Otherwise, we simply don't need you.

Control the border with a fully functional visa system.

As for genuine refugees, of which few actually manage to get here, assess the reality of the situation and make a decision within a day/week. Then if you fail, out you go. Where, to your country of origin. Let the taxpayer pay for that because it's a damn sight cheaper than long term care for that person/family. Escaping Birmingham is not a refugee.

Commit a crime while awaiting citizenship, out you go at your cost if you have a visa and employment. If the decision for potential refugees is less than a week in a enclosed, secure detention centre then they can't commit a crime. Again, if allowed to remain, awaiting citizenship, commit a crime, out you go and the taxpayer will fund that.

EU national with no job, out you go. EU national committing crime, out you go. All back to country of origin.

All people are asking for is control. And the state is not listening. We have absolutely zero opposition compared to most of the EU and even the UK. They are all moulded from the same putty. The protests are a clear sign people are unhappy, but they can only be ignored for so long. Deal with it now before either a knee jerk reaction by the public or worse still, a true right wing power gets a hold of minds.

The Irish government is wasting billions on short-term hotel stays tha make private contractors richer, while ordinary Irish families can’t afford to keep a roof over their heads. It’s a total disgrace and a slap in the face to everyone working hard to make ends meet,and they can't seem to see what's happening, we're losing our skilled workers and replacing them with God knows who.

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2025/05/17/coolock-ipas-centre-government-accused-of-providing-template-for-protests-against-asylum-seeker-accommodation/

Success as it is for the people of Coolock, unfortunately it still means another thousand people being moved elsewhere instead - a thousand, the majority of whom should not be here under these circumstances in the first place

We are still on the hook for accommodating all of these people, at the cost of over a billion euro annually. And that is only the accommodation, to think nothing of the day to day costs.

Thankfully the stricter stance being taken by the Dept of Justice is seeing numbers of applications lodged fall.
They need to maintain this trend while ramping up processing of the backlog of the other tens of thousands of ungenuine applicants who have managed to get into the system under the dim witted noses of O’Gormon and McEntee.

Absolute horsesh!t.

This country is sovereign. We can absolutely introduce an immigration system that prioritises skilled immigration.

No one has a problem with a skilled engineer from Lagos or a surgeon from Lahore coming here to work. If a person can support themselves and fill a gap, it's almost without question not a problem.

The problem with the ideology the Marxists that you frequently espouse here (in fairness, the government too) is that no one should distinguish the suitability of immigration based on skills.

Some people hide behind 'political correctness' to act like thugs. That is also wrong.

Why? Because there are thousands of Irish natives who cannot secure accommodation.

Can you only? Strange question - like asking can you only qualify as a liberal if you're pro-communism.

Points system? At the risk of being rude, probably a common sense level of substance.

It’s extremely difficult to move to Ireland from outside the EU without visa sponsorship on a skilled immigrant visa.

Can you outline the difficulties (and especially the 'extreme' aspect) in reality? Can you present plenty of evidence that people are denied entry to Ireland and their return to point of origin is enforced without fail? Given the statement above, it should be very easy to show the figures supporting your claim.