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

Not to mention the blow to Irish culture on this island. Indian culture could take over and considering this island is ruled by democracy what would stop the new Irish voting to form a union with India.

People don't let go of their roots and when they leave home they tend to feel even more patriotic about their homeland. The world is too big, Ireland is too small, we've let in too many. Time to protect Irish culture before it's too late.

Is there any conditions to buying a property in Ireland if you are on work visa?can someone just arrive and buy property within weeks?

O' Gorman was was the only one who actually followed through and secured some of the funding that would be required to develop the infrastructure. He was also the only politician I've ever heard in government that genuinely talked about treating asylum seekers with decency. If he had gotten a decent run I have no doubt we would have purpose built accommodation for the thousands who need it. Yes, it would have cost more upfront but in the long-term, purpose built and government owned accommodation would have been a superior investment over time.

Roderic O'Gorman issued Ministerial Orders that resulted in the creation of shanty towns around the country. The orders ended up being declared illegal by the courts. He had no idea how to create accommodation centres or manage the system. There was zero organization or oversight during their development of these sites. He would have continued along this path had he been able to - we'd have huge shanty towns in Thornton Hall, Athlone and other places.

The companies he contracted to run his shanty towns were the likes of Igo Cafe. The shanty towns are/were used by gangsters to defraud the State.

O'Gorman is one of the most reckless, incompetent, dangerous politicians we have ever seen here.

If the govt didnt offer the hoteliers the money in the first place, the hoteliers would not be in position to accept the offer.

Perhaps if the Government were not easily swayed by such a strong hotelier lobby? Looking in it seems that FF FG and the by standing supporting parties are rather happy with a quick fix solution whereby the Government doesn't ever, no matter what, ever get called far right racists - at all costs. Sharp-eyed hoteliers are well able to swing the angle and provide cover for incompetent government ministers. All at the taxpayers expense of course.

If the govt took this approach and cut all contracts with hotels, where do you propose they house the IPAs instead?

The govt have to house them somewhere is my point.

I'd house them on the next Ryanair flight back to wherever they came from. I genuinely couldn't give two hoots about housing them. Not our pig, not our farm - and as for any outdated 1950s document that lads signed that are well pushing up daises now, one of the first actions of a truly citizen focussed government would be to withdraw/shred that document. Not fit for purpose, and hasn't been since the turn of the new Millennium at least.

Hotels aren't the best solutuon for anyone, we all know that and I have a lot of sympathy for tourism towns that might only have 1 or 2 hotels that then get removed from the tourist market, but the govt still has to house the IPAs somewhere.

Hotels are designed, given planning permission for (with usually very generous tax breaks/incentives), to provide typically 1 to 14 nights for a tourist or a business customer. They should stick to that, what they were granted planning permission for in the first place. You can't on one hand say hotels are fine and dandy to provide several years accommodation to IPAs while through the other side of your mouth criticise and look to outlaw people from running AirBNBs. Feck right off with that hypocrisy.

There was talk of old office blocks being converted to accommodation, but I am not sure if this ever took off.

While we have ~15,000 of our own citizens officially classed as homeless (the real figure is alot, alot higher) any talks of providing accommodation to non-Nationals should be firmly down the ladder.

I answered it very, very clearly. On the next flight back out of here.

I think it’s very simple.. we need stop amend laws that allow Irish people first dibs on housing stock similar to local needs. I think that’s only fair.

Immigration officials in Ireland may not be able to perform robust identity checks and security screening on asylum seekers due to the country's lack of access to key EU security databases, a Government report has warned.

So the government have admitted what most of us knew all along. So the question is, if we don't have proper identity checks in place, why are we letting so many people in?

I'd just like to see a counter on the RTE news every day showing examples of how much each person like this is costing the taxpayer in total. Also, I'd like to know, if their claim was rejected, if they are still in the country. And I mean the total cost, not the cost from one departments point of view or some guesstimate.

It's feels like the security in this country is happy path 1980s "no one is immigrating here" security and it'll all be grand.

It's not security for a country in 2025 when everyone has all the knowledge in the world to figure out which country is the easiest to scam the most or which country is the safest to hide in.