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

RTE news : Directors of IPAS centre operator shared €4.68m last year

http://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0523/1514492-ipas-operators/

Rte getting in on kicking the boot into the Igo cafe owners. Anyone who has been paying attention knows the back story with this crowd. All very dodgy, but seems they are finally getting heat from the mainstream. Although the cynic in me can't help but feel its all by design and someone behind the scenes has given the go ahead for their head to be served on a plate.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0523/1514492-ipas-operators/

RTE running with the story now and have gone into some breakdown of the amounts and might I dare suggest have an opinion of same.

Could those posters who think that we should accept higher levels of immigration look at the figures below and ask if it's sustainable.

(Amounts paid to the directors) "equates to average pay of €36,346 per week for each."

"The cash funds of €1.24m compared to only €1,158 in cash in the company at the end of 2019"

(Combined IPAS & Ukrainian spending) "The outlay equates to a daily average spend of €5m across 2024."

The universities are also guilty of milking students and their parents.

Financialisation of on-campus rental accommodation.

Students do not need to be living in luxury apartments.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-22/sanchez-pushes-ahead-with-plan-to-tax-non-eu-home-buyers-100?embedded-checkout=true

Spain’s Socialist party introducing a 100% tax on non-EU house purchasers to ease their housing shortages

Someone should let the socialists know that they’re far right

Meanwhile our torpid toads in government are happy to do absolutely nothing in the way of imaginative or firm measures to try and address the crisis.
They simply don’t care.

Millionaire Micheál and Simon Harris much prefer to grandstand on international issues than thinking for a second about their own people they purport to lead.

Aontu sure, national party no.

We don't have an alternative when the main opposition are even more pro immigration.

The EU pressuring our government to take in the world. You don't see much pressure to get home ownership in that cohort up from 7%. Natives be damned. And this fate awaits the children of all these immigrants who come here anyway. This island is a social disaster. These are meant to be the good times 😂

Another big recession will finish us off.

According to the RTÉ article linked above, Igo provides facilities management (would that be cleaning, caretaking, security?) at four IPAS centres. The article also states that last year’s cost for housing asylum seekers amounted to €1 billion. Does that €1 billion include the fees paid to external facilities management companies, or does it cover only accommodation costs (i.e. payments to hotels and owners of repurposed buildings)? If the €1 billion figure reflects only the actual lodging and excludes outsourced services like facilities management, then the true total expenditure must be significantly higher.

Furthermore, a single company received €4.68 million last year to employ 77 staff - many of whom are likely paid at or near minimum wage - to service just four IPAS centres. Can this level of spending on one contractor for such a limited number of sites be justified? It certainly raises serious questions about the management of public funds.

No, they received €29.9m, the directors made €4.68m from the 4 sites they run.

No, we have an increasingly parochial electorate who vote on local issues and rarely on national interest

Really?

So all the ideological virtue signalling by our politicians is in vain?

We're all just voting for the man that fixed the pothole on the road to the monthly cattle mart?

Is there any particular evidence to suggest that the presence of IPAs in the Gaeltacht areas "dilutes the language"?

It just seems like yet another one of those things where — just because it involves migrants / IPAs — it suddenly invokes a lot of passion and the presence of foreigners becomes disproportionately amplified as the reason for the problem when there are many contributing factors that are far more influential.

As an Irish speaker myself, the people who I see doing most to "dilute" the language are Irish people themselves. I've often found foreigners to be more enthusiastic / adept at trying out the language than Irish people.

Absolutely delighted to hear the news regarding the Carna Bay Hotel. Looking forward to staying there again once it's fully returned to tourism and contributing a few bob to the local economy. It was an absolutely ridiculous place to be housing refugees/IPAs, good to see the new minister showing a bit of common sense unlike his predecessor.

I am slowly taking a mental note of the various hotels that are accommodating IPAS/Ukraine and making it my business to never give them any more business. I always Google current and previous names of hotels. Wait for this to eventually conclude and the entire tourism sector will have the hand out begging for cash again. If you got the gift of easy cash from IPAS/Ukraine then let you rot.