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

Roma not doing a tap should be deported .Do you support Roma shop lifters and beggars ? . Ukranians not doing a tap should be returned if/when this war is over it is supposed to be temporary protection .

Love the spin in that RTE article, although in fairness it’s probably a combination of poor research and deliberately vague soundbites from government department spokespeople.

Ireland has opted out from using these databases for immigration checks.

Opted out

There is an internal database here, but information is not shared with EU, and Eurodac is only consulted after an alleged crime is committed.

That RTE article makes it seem as though EU are holding CTA against us, and are excluding us from accessing and using these databases, and new visa system, because we are not a Schengen country.

Sooo - why will Cyprus be implementing these border checks? They’re not a Schengen country, yet they have access to these systems? Granted they’ve signalled an intent to join Schengen but they are absolutely not as of now in Schengen - unless EU are taking their word for it, pinky promise, that they intend to be a member of Schengen?

EU want all EU countries to implement these systems to make security in EU tighter.

Why would they want to introduce measures to strengthen EU border security and think ‘oh well we’ll leave the back door open through that little country that’s easily accessible from outside EU and has a common travel arrangement with a nearby immigration hub’?

Just when you think it couldn’t get any worse… with Ireland shut out of Schengen security databases, can’t check the backgrounds of those seeking asylum, leaving the country wide open to violent criminals and extremists who know they won’t be flagged.

This is some impressive backpedaling by RTÉ. They've stop gaslighting and are now reporting actual news?

And in light of this news the government will continue to expedite droves of migrants into the country rather than halting the influx until they get access to this vital data...

What will it take for people to realise that the government absolutely despise Irish people and especially their own electorate. FG/FF will continue to punish us for spoiling the "FG Vs FF" charade they somehow managed to sustain for 90 years. Sickening behaviour from those who have the gall to pretend that they serve the country.

When you see videos/pictures of long queues waiting to buy houses in Dublin where the Irish are the minority you know there is something really wrong in this country.

How is this right in Ireland?

Like trying to find a needle in a haystack

It feels like we're doomed to repeat the mistakes of the UK. We should be prioritising Irish citizens for housing, none of these Indians, Africans, Asians should be any where near the top of the queue for housing

A lack of new homes being built is the biggest factor impacting the housing market.

People working here and paying tax need somewhere to live also.

If people born abroad were suddenly not allowed to buy homes, how many of the MNCs do you think would stick around in Ireland? Answer, zero.

We'd be sent back to the 80s in a heartbeat and the economy & our public services would be crippled.

Legal migration is a good thing for every country, but we do need a major increase in home building in Ireland.

There absolutely should be questions asked about new housing stock being snapped up by new arrivals in high paying jobs,thety are contributing to price inflation and pricing locals out of the matket.

Maybe we should look at curtailing purchases until you have lived at least 3 years in Ireland.This can change when supply catches up with demand.

IT is the highest paying sector in Ireland. Av salary of 69k.

If large IT companies (or any company for that matter) were suddenly not allowed to hire non-irish citizens, those companies would up and leave and take their tax and jobs with them.

A lot of their irish staff would follow them out the door also.

Its not going to happen anyway, so pretty pointless discussing it.

I think you are confused, Nobody suggested not hiring non irish citizens but maybe we should look at curtailing property purchasing for people on work visas for an initial period,say 3 years,of course if they were citizens this would not affect them.

No MNC would leave,they love our tax rates.

I dont think that would make much difference. Without an uptick in building we wont see an improvement in housing availability.

Government loves the tax take, but in order to generate the tax take, the MNC needs to generate the revenue and in order to do that you need good staff.

In order to hire good staff, you need to have access to global talent...Just like every other successful city in the world does.

That is not going to change.

Ireland is tiny. There is no chance all the big companies would be here if only irish staff were allowed to buy houses.

The colleges of Ireland have a lot to answer for - they had a huge hand in creating this mess. They (along with their puppets in government) created an environment which compelled young people into the 3rd level education. They fearmonger students from age 13 to 18 that they won't get a job if they don't go to college. They closed down the technical institutes and started flooding the country with cheaper labour. All the irish students then came out of college with degrees for things that literally had zero jobs (apart from jobs teaching the next generation the same nonsense) - first thing they do is join all their similarly placed friends and f*ck off to a nicer part of the world. This was great for the government because A) they no longer had to support them and B) the colleges got their 4-5 years of €€€€€€.

The void left by the Irish will happily be filled with migrants by the government. it's a very nice system they have going for themselves. They know that those irish that left decades ago with come back with their bags of cash to raise their children here.

We need to open up the technical colleges again, give the Universities the two fingers and stop sneering at anyone who leaves school at 15/16. I believe this is a huge factor in the problem we have at the moment.

complete nonsense.

The technical colleges weren’t shut down, they are still open and thriving.

There are plenty of jobs for Irish grads in things other than teaching, I know this from first hand experience.