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

Can you just say what you mean instead of beating around the bush hinting at conspiracies.

In order for their to be a conflict of interest you must be able to clearly identify what that conflict is?

What is the conflict of interest you see?

Apart from a the usual risk of gombeen politics!

Well Stephen I don't think anyone has provided any detailed breakdown on what that number means. Whether it includes seasonal workers and renewals, whether it includes work permits assigned as part of a student visa. How many are work permits assigned to spouses (both of Irish citizens and work permit holders).

We really have no detail at all about what it means. So you would hope people would be cautious about getting outraged until they knew what it all means.

No, care to point out in my post where you got that idea from?

I support waving goodbye to the 83% of Roma here that are unemployed, which if they can't support themselves after 6 months the government are allowed cut all benefits to. Do you support continuing paying benefits to those 83% ?

Well Robert here’s https://enterprise.gov.ie/en/publications/publication-files/permits-by-sector-2025.xlsx a detailed breakdown of the permits issued up to mid April and only 851 of the roughly 11,500 are agricultural workers and 658 are construction.
3000, are medical and social work - don’t think anyone would have an issue with that, but the rest?
1521 for accommodation and food services? Come on

Things must be really desperate when the Gardaí are recruiting IPA applicants to join the force, and Drew Harris is the last to find out.

https://gript.ie/fact-check-can-refugees-become-gardai/

You claimed the majority of work permits were being issued to keep rural Ireland and agriculture going. You've been proved spectacularly wrong.

I'd end this post with a laughing emoji if I didn't know any better.

Man, the refugee industry are really fighting hard for their billions, deportations are an existential threat to them.

Yet another sob story for the 35 deported last week. Minister these have had more than enough airtime, another planeload and new sob stories this week, thanks

This is an actual joke - are we supposed to just let everybody stay then according to the absolute turds pushing this narrative?

Can’t be discussed here, riots up north have nothing to do with immigration, apparently

One fella here since 2009, 16 years in the system. God only knows what he cost us. If he comes back straight to mountjoy with him. If he's here 16 years n didn't get leave to remain n wasn't accepted in mc entees amnesty there's a reason why. Of course the journal never asked why!

Wasn't a fraction of the uproar when a couple of flights went to Georgia a few months ago. Are some more equal than others in the refugee industry?!