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

Where will we house them? Irish people won't agree to it if it means the housing crisis gets worse.

Step one should be to prioritise Irish natives for housing. Especially homeless and young people wanting to move out from their parents. There's hundreds of thousands who need this.

When Irish natives are no longer in a housing crisis we might be more open to the idea of the mass immigration that would be need to change the shape of our population pyramid.

And I say May because there's a lot of evidence we want to keep natives as the majority on this island for cultural reasons.

I find it ironic that you can ask a question like that yet label people that don't share your ideology as "Far Right Zombies"

The pension timebomb hasnt happened yet. We are still probably 15 to 20 years out from it.

We will need to bring in workers to take up jobs before that happens.

Thats not the same thing as saying we should just bring 1000s of people here for no reason, its about allowing immigration to help us through a skills gap - same as every other country does.

We’re at full employment, let’s take workers we need from the EU and if necessary further afield on work visas, no need to try and house the worlds poor who won’t be paying anyones pension

Mid 80s to late nighties was Ireland's golden years. There was still good music being made, the country had hope, life was improving, people were happy. We were still Ireland, we were still unique, we embraced being modern and European, thinking we were part of some friendly club where everyone had eachother's backs, where we could celebrate eachothers individualities. Little did we know that faceless bureaucrats had other ideas, and we would all be made embrace mass migration and multiculturalism at the expense of existing values and cultures.

It's par for the course for those with a particular political leaning to lash out with name calling - they do this because quite simply deep down they know their counter-arguments are illogical and nonsensical. It serves to deflect from the deficiencies in the policies they believe in - immature student union politics.

Hasn't happened anywhere in fairness.

While I think the problems of demographic decline is somewhat overblown, those that propose high immigration as the solution to it, still need to explain how their solution is sustainable. Where are the people, for example, in a time of chronic housing shortage, supposed to live. And if we're to build housing to house those immigrants, what is the cost of that going to be and how will that impact the pensions pot that we're supposedly concerned about?

Also can those who are concerned about population decline give some examples of where in the developed world there has been an actual collapse of society?

Yes, not enough hospital beds, more immigrants needed. Because of these extra immigrants, there's a lack of school places for their children, so more immigration is needed to supply teachers. This extra immigration leads to lack of houses for them to live in so more immigrants are needed to build houses. These extra immigrants building mean more hospital beds need to be provided so more immigrants are needed to do that.

Totally sustainable!

"It's nonsense to suggest that poorly educated men from third world countries with little or no English will be any benefit to this country

Yet we have the likes of Brid Smith saying they can be used to solve the housing crises."

Couldnt agree more. If anyone thinks that AS's and/or unskilled persons can work as a roofers, bricklayers, site prep person laying concrete foundations, etc just like that, well thry need their heads examined. Sure if it were that simple, we,d all be building our own homes, extensions and house upgrades, and not hiring professional, skilled and trained builders !

I havent seen or read or heard of any complusory building training schemes for immigrants who become citizens but are still on welfare.

If the jobs arent available then the working migrants wont come.

Asylum seekers are not the same thing as working migrants.

Remember that there will be increased demand for healthcare workers and services as our population ages and those jobs wont be replaced by AI so easily.

We will still need to bring in some labour because so many of us will be retiring and then relying on state services. We will need people to fill those roles.

We still have skills shortages in almost every sector.

Healthcare, construction, bus drivers, teachers, nurses, doctors, dentists...the list goes on.

The shortage will be much more actute in 15 years times, when more irish people retire than will be entering the workforce.

I know. Those kinds of people (the poster) will be the death of us.

Not even a single suggestion of anything in this regard. Just take everybody from all over the world and hope for the best as it's going swimmingly in the rest of Europe.