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

Newstalk spent a substantial part of their report on this asking the justice minister what the teacher was supposed to say to the class were one of their classmates disappeared suddenly.

They went on and on about this.

It seems the media are against even this token, puny effort.

We have an embassy in Nigeria too! It’s just moved into the European Union Common Embassy Complex. Anyone from Nigeria who wants to claim asylum should be doing so from there.

We've just spent a fortune building numerous little estates around the country for them, so can't have them lying idle and being used to reduce our own housing lists.

edit, double checked the op.

Yes, the 1951 Treaty does seem outdated.

I see on the main page:

This is not the case.

The thousands of Albanians, Americans, Georgians, etc. claiming asylum here are not like this.

Bobby Kerr on Newstalk promoting an initiative to have more non nationals running businesses, said it was great when there was only 3 Irish people out of 300 in his startup

It's being debated now on the radio.

Gibney is on for the SDs saying everyone who has kids should get an Amnesty.

I despise that party.

The government representative is beyond useless, they should have had O Callaghan on instead.

Totally. Our construction costs quite simply make it impossible to build the number of houses, we require now and will require in the future, with the immigrations numbers we are faced with. As I said previously our population increase last year of 130,000 people, equates to the combined population of Limerick and Ennis. Imagine having to provide the number of houses required for Limerick and Ennis in a single year, with the same number required in succeeding years. Just not possible. It doesn't really matter what the political parties do or say, the situation is unmanageable imo. regardless, of deportations etc, people will continue to come here in huge numbers, especially from Northern Ireland. All we can do is sit back and watch our systems unravel. The pressure on the housing market is incredible. This week a modest 4 bedroom house, that I am familiar with and in need of very significant upgrading, sold for over a million euro in Lahinch. Photos online. Report from Clare Echo below,

‘Thalassa located at Seapark in Lahinch received global interest ahead of its online auction this Friday. The four-bedroom property which went on the market for €650,000 sold for €1,005,000.00. There was a total of 99 bids made on the property during the auction before the virtual hammer dropped for just over €1m. Six different individuals were bidding for the Lahinch seaside home. Initially fourteen people had registered their interest in acquiring the home in North-West Clare but six bidders were in the final hunt for the property with a forty four people watching the auction online. Persons registered were from Co Clare while there was national and international interest in the auction. Estate agents DNG O’Sullivan Hurley confirmed to The Clare Echo they received expressions of the interest from people in three different continents around the world.'

The world knows we are a soft touch, thats why they come here and push their luck. The likes of Gannon, Gibney and everyone else that is making noise about this, is part of the reason we are in the mess we are.

Anything other than enforcing the rules, and deporting those that shouldn't be here, is the only way. If we fail to do that, the country deserves everything it gets.

That Sinead Gibney is an absolute headbanger. I hope rte keep getting her on. I'm sure she's doing untold damage to the SDs. Gaza kids sleep better knowing she's doing her nails.

RTE had an interview with an AS who was given a deportation order.

He was born in Egypt, moved to South Africa, got into some kind of trouble there and then came here.

And of course Gibney said he shouldn't be deported.

What left leaning parties don't seem to get is if we aren't seen to be carrying out deportations it will be a pull factor for even more to arrive here.

Fair point but what's more likely? She was lying or our immigration officials fucked up? 50/50 I think

Not much info there, what kind of trouble was he in in South Africa? I assume he's being deported to Egypt so can he safely live there despite what happened in SA?

If not, there's no reason for him to claim asylum here

Okay so we cannot afford to build social housing but we have no problem throwing billions on accommodating IPAs?

Ireland's spending on accommodating international protection applicants, including asylum seekers, exceeded €1 billion in 2024, a 54% increase from the previous year. Since 2019, the total cost of accommodating international protection applicants has reached €2.5 billion. This includes direct accommodation costs, as well as other related expenses.

No wonder most people are pissed off

What do you mean not much info?

I'm just passing on what was in the interview, get on to RTE if you want to know more.

It didn't say which country he was being deported to but he said he didn't want to go back to either of them.