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

It's always against the law to use fraudulent documents or destroy documents to enter a country, that's why some asylum scammers (a small minority) have been prosecuted.

Genuine refugees are exempt from punishment for breaking this law.

The problem is that the vast majority are not actually refugees so there should be way more prosecutions but instead we just reward scammers with "permission to remain" and then citizenship.

The act of destroying documents is a tried-and-tested, paint-by-numbers routine at this stage. The law quite clearly isn't working the way it should.

It's also a crime to refuse to make reasonable efforts to prove one's identity after claiming asylum but many asylum seekers routinely make things difficult, which is partially why it takes so long to process them.

21% not a big drop?… ok then.

Paul treyvaud , restaurant owner in Killarney pointing absolutely nails it-

This taxpayers money we are blowing on paying for this is crippling our country. Our tourism industry is utterly decimated and small family run businesses are closing all across our nation at an alarming rate

It’s time to stop this insanity and forget the PC bullshit and fix our country once and for all

And 6 months ago businesses were going to be devastated by having to pay staff minimum wage, before that COVID restrictions were going to decimate the industry, leading to one of the dumbest publicity stunts I've ever seen, before that Virgin media were hampering Irish business because they wouldn't give him a TV show. 6 months from now he'll probably be campaigning to bring back smoking sections.

Chap's an absolute spanner.

Is that what came across to you when you read my post, how bizarre. Try read it again, cheers

I believe Paul, a taxpayer who runs a business that depends on tourist footfall is perfectly entitled to question the government spending billions of taxpayers money to enrich a select few people in a new highly profitable industry (asylum accomadation) which is in direct competition with his livelihood as with so many peoples. Billions of euros on economic migrants posing as genuine asylum seekers.

The decline of the tourist industry in Ireland is entirely predictable.

The social and democratic contract between the people (the tax payers) and our politicians has never been as broken. There was always a perception that our politicians had a plan that was in the interest of the nation as a whole and representative of the people as a whole who voted them in. That politicians were competent and had a vision for what our country could be which aligned with the electorate, there are so many fiasco's of government spending and policy that at this stage the only thing you could say for certain is that there is no plan beyond willfully spending billions knowing that there is no value for money in it as per Simon Harris, and that there will be no consequences for absolute incompetence and waste. I have never spoken to as many people who are pissed off with the state of politics and policy in this country ... there are interesting times ahead

I could have gone with hypocrite, spoofer or moron, but spanner just seemed appropriate.

Its an employees market over here in Ireland nowadays. Horrible bosses don't be long losing staff, he's still going 20 years later. Must be a miracle!

Absolute far-left scaremongering. MNCs don't give two hoots whether the migrant worker is a houseowner or a renter. They just want them in the door at 9am or whatever and do their job.