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

The government trips over itself to look after strangers, giving them better treatment than the natives.... Meanwhile, the rest of us are left picking up the pieces as they make a complete balls of everything else. They couldn’t organise a piss-up in a brewery—unless it’s for someone who just arrived into the country.

Ah here, the majority do not feel RTE do a good job of anything

Any cafe owners out there stressing about struggling to keep the lights on? Give these guys a call, maybe they will share the secret of their success with ya.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14737507/Angela-Rayner-calls-migrant-benefits-slashed-Rachel-Reeves.html

Bold proposals, outlined in a leaked memo revealed by The Telegraph, also suggested making it harder for immigrants to receive Universal credit.

Ms Rayner even said Labour should raise the fee migrants pay to use the NHS, in policies she and her team claimed were 'contentious' but still 'worthy of consideration'.

Under current policies, introduced under the Tories in 2015, foreigners on work visas pay to access healthcare - a fee currently set at £1,035.

The 'radical' policies further included limiting access to the state pension.

America's descent towards authoritarianism and the far-right continues…

Oh wait, this is Keir Starmer's Britain 😀

Payments to the directors of Igo Café Ltd have gone from 133,015 in 2022 to 1,304,794 in 2023 and 4,689,929 in 2024. Regardless whether anyone agrees with the amounts being paid for asylum seekers it's obvious that substantial amounts of money are simply being fed through companies to directors pockets and not being used for asylum seekers. It's such a waste of taxpayers money when so many public services are underfunded and cutbacks are everywhere.

OK I'm not back seat modding here, but I think would be helpful if what constitutes a link dump is outlined in order to stop such confusion arising in future.

I did a quick search and found a poster requesting help on exactly what a link dump is. The thread is here. As you can see one mod is of the view that just pasting a link is a link dump. While the last word on it is

If you wish to post a link set out what it is about and your own views on it.

So if you post a link say what it is and put your own view on it.

There has to be a mechanism in order to allow posters to post links without being accused of link dumping in my view, otherwise this and other threads will circle the drain.

This seems like an area where any decent journalist would be able to dig in and figure out what is going on. Then actually inform the public.

Where do the immigrants themselves fit into this equation for Ireland? Are they simply being used as a mechanism for wealth transfer?

It feels at times like people are being brought here simply to be exploited. Nobody can effectively criticize it because being "against immigration" puts you in alignment with some more unsavory figures so the exploitation continues.

Doesn't it seem like the real, maybe only, winners here are the businesses making all this money?

Bacik was getting very worked up about the plane full of criminals that the yanks were deporting stopping in Shannon to re fuel.

She was worried about their human rights!

I think this family reunification is falling under the radar at bit but this is just nuts that our government is not keeping stats on this

Earlier this month, we reported that there had been a significant increase in the number of persons who, having being granted asylum, have also been approved for bringing family members to Ireland under the Family Reunification process in the period from 2019-2024.

However, that data showed a big surge in the number of approvals – they tripled from 265 persons approved in 2019 to 983 approvals in 2024, with a total of 3,071 applications approved from 2019 to May 7, 2025. However, the data from the Department of Justice did not say how many persons subsequently entered the country on foot of each approval.

I cannot fanthom how a government can be so incompetent.

It just beyond a joke at this stage

That’s all mightily convenient isn’t it? There’s a massive surge in people who have been granted asylum getting the right to bring their families here but the State is clueless as to what the actual effect of that is. It’s always easier, isn’t it, not to be answerable for the impact of policy on the demand for services, especially housing, when you can simply say the data is not recorded.

They use this lack of data to hide behind.

In other terrific news

BREAKING: Locals have welcomed confirmation from the Department of Justice that the Carna Bay Hotel will not be sought for use as an asylum centre. Residents of the famed west Conamara Gaeltacht village had strongly opposed plans for an IPAS centre. 

The Department of Justice issued a statement today saying that they were “no longer considering the offer of an potential IPAS accommodation centre” at the Carna hotel. They said that the decision to discontinue this particular proposal is based on current considerations around the location with regard to access to services in the area and the current level of need in the sector”.

Imagine having this in a Gaeltacht area in the first, what brainless idea to put IPAS into an Irish speaking area. This government is already doing enough to destroy rural Ireland as is, stop diluting the Irish language

Sure the 22% of the population of Ireland born overseas and Ireland having the fourth largest non-national population of all 27 member states

This is nuts for a small country and it's just a ticking time bomb

The huge and unsustainable levels of population growth in Ireland over the last couple of years, driven largely by migration.

Big piece on the housing crisis in this morning’s Irish Times. They mention that home ownership in the 25-39 cohort now stands at 7%. Yep, 7%.
What is the usual age when people try to settle down and begin families again?

And population growth as a driver of demand is only mentioned as an afterthought and dismissed as being an important factor. More people doesn’t mean more houses required apparently.

Oh and no mention whatsoever of migration being the underpinning of this excessive population growth. You’d never expect it from the Irish Times would you?