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

This thread has posters flip flopping from being

Angry when immigrants are not doctors and engineers.

And Now angry that imaginary immigrants might be doctors or nurses.

How will you incentivise them?

@RobbieTheRobber unless I've been angry when immigrants are not doctors or engineers this response is completely irrelevant.

It is true though, Europe and the west is sucking poorer countries dry of talent.

Ireland's immigration blight was on GB News recently

It's funny if you think about it, a UK news channel reporting what's really happening in Ireland

Our government don't give a **** about Irish people.

The UK discovered that family reunification from foreign nurses ended up with their family members being welfare dependents which undone any advantages for taking in these nurses. We had foreign nurses here protesting to get family brought over but that means child benefits and more education and healthcare demand.

The mods said it's not to be discussed. And I'm glad because I shouldn't have to define what I am as an Irish native.

You've somehow after a few replies avoided providing any methods to your "solutions".

I’ve very elderly relative in a North Dublin hospital. She won’t be going home. She needs around the clock care. Her eyesight is failing and she is a major falls risk due to a combination of that and her general physical condition , it was a fall that put her into that hospital. The decision was made weeks ago by her family with the doctors…that she cannot go home. She knows herself..

As of weeks ago they have applied to get her into a couple of residential homes in her area. Problem is the waiting list for rooms. There isn’t even a bed in a step down or transitional facility available to her at the time of writing this post…The hospital she is in has over 170 beds. She’s taking up one yet… she’s not ill, she’s well enough to now to leave the acute healthcare facility, just not able enough to return to live at home… there is no further treatment or acute care they can offer….so essentially through no fault of her own, she’s depriving another patient of a bed and healthcare.

So with these examples why are people still cheerleading the influx of people arriving to Ireland at the levels they are ? It’s nuts. When the services are not there for the current population. There is no way to keep providing for the influxes of people and the population growth we are seeing. There just isn’t.

And if whatever government start making a play for more of peoples assets and our wellbeing…to try bridge the gap, this could all end eventually very nastily……

Mod - warned for ignoring moderator instruction re anecdotes

Private sector or public sector?

A non-EU employee can happily, or maybe not so happily rent, I don't particularly care about their desire to own a home in Ireland. I highly suspect their employers don't care either as long as they put in the shift.

Blocking non-EU, or hobbling their desire through 100% taxes (hello Spain) so that local Irish people don't have to compete with non-EU persons purchasing a home is certainly a good move.

Nobody is suggesting blocking non-Irish workers from working in the country, that is a fantasy dreamed up for some unknown reason.

More homes are certainly needed, and first and foremost for the Irish person. As I said, newly built homes or pre-loved homes going for sale should be blocked to non-Irish purchasers who are only here a short while - be they individual purchasers or foreign investors. In fact, the foreign investor should be slapped with a 10,000% tax, aka fook off.

I think some folks here are saying that non- irish shouldn't be allowed to work here.

Hopefully I am wrong.

Nobody is giving out about people who come here legally to fill those jobs.

But of course you left out the so called AS with no documents most of whom are economic migrants .

O Gorman has a lot to answer for.

McEntee as well.

But the tide is turning , people have had enough of woke leftists

Some shouldn't, that's why we have VISAs. I think restrictions on VISAs and jobs which qualify need to be reviewed

At the behest of seeming archaic, I think assassinations of identified smugglers should be on the cards.

Illegal immigration can threaten the demographic and culture of a country beyond the control of the people. As such it's a matter of national security, which should trump all other considerations.

The concept of "native Irish" is far right nonsense. It's been widely debunked here multiple times now.

We ourselves are a nation of migrants who went all over the world. Now the boot is on the other foot and people want to come here to flee war, famine and oppression. They should all be welcomed into the country with open arms. There's a potential demographic collapse coming and we are in desperate need of people to keep the health service running and to pay the pensions.