No quitten we're whelan onto chitchat 12.

You may be right Dr Dolittle but, it ain't going to help our housing crisis or healtcare crisis at the moment.

Surely it would be only right to check their passports and find out have they committed crimes in the past,

Surely be to fuuck, no one can agree with paying billions to business men to house all these people. Send any one with no identification straight back to where his flight or boat or bus came from

Surely you can see a big increase in population needs more housing and health care, and money.

We can see now they want to grab the money out of the next round of CAP to spend on immigration. Don't let people be crying on here here in a few years because their payments are slashed, you were warned

Immigrants are only adding to the housing crisis and health sector crisis.

Completely incorrect. Even in the health sector - 25% nurses are immigrants / 40% doctors from abroad and of those recently appointed ('23 I think) 25% were from outside the EU.

We need houses built yet we don't have the numbers to build them; we're again reliant on immigration to fill the gaps. Since the crash there's been fewer and fewer Irish going in to construction - how do you expect all these new houses to be built?

In hospitality and food services; how many Irish do you now see working the counters? It's practically all immigrants.

Waiting list growing to just actually see a gp yet all the immagrants will all put in claim for medical cards .

Again; you're pointing the finger at the immigrants without recogniisng how much we need/rely on them and painting them as a pure drain on the services. Because they have a card doesn't mean they have to be taken on. This misconception has been trotted out time and time again but it's plainly wrong. There is simply no obligation.

Also you're simply blaming immigration without looking at all at those who have set up the health system to operate with these stress points.

The procedure by a hell of alot of immagrants who have a visa is work a few weeks to get a public service card the next step then is jobseekers allowance ,claim for hap if they are renting and claim for medical card.

A "hell of a lot" is something you've come up with. And is again just your misguided anger. You've never shown the same anger towards Irish who've done the same or less and area greater drain on society.

How is it you dont understand or dont want to believe this scam is happening week in week out up and down the country.

I understand it, you are guided on prejudice and anger.

It's simplistic language that we've seen even repeated in this thread multiple times on "illegal immigrants" and "illegals voting" - neither of them have the same meaning in the Irish context yet we've grifters who will push them as the same issue.

There is even facebook pages dedicated in several different languages flaunting the steps to claim jobseekers allowance,claim for medical card ,claim for didability! and claim for housing assistance!!

I'm sure there are. Facebook isn't real life though. Tarring all with the same brush is not the answer. There's plenty of scams involving Irish people online and otherwise but you wouldn't accept us all being treated as the same would you. How many facebook groups show farming abuses and abuses of the system; should we all then be labelled as animal abusing scam artists?

Can I just ask, where do you think the tens of thousands of IPAs they're stuffing into hotels will be in 5 years time? We cannot build enough houses to match those coming in, plain and simple.

the camera work on gaa go would give you a reeling in the head

You do all that and it will open the floodgates.

Immigration has nothing to do with the housing crisis n it's racist to suggest otherwise- is that an April fool joke? The multinationals haven't added a single job the last 2 years n won't this year, thankfully the refugee industry is flying it.

When the corporation tax dries up will our kids stick around to pay for it after finishing college?

From article below -Ireland isn’t just registering its highest ever population growth, or the highest growth of any European country in 2023, we are setting records for some of the largest population growth events in history,” he said

https://m.independent.ie/business/multinationals-jobs-boom-stalls-with-no-increase-in-last-two-years/a423807102.html

Anyone know of anybody in Kildare with quad and wiper to do a few fields of rushes pm me if you don't want to put up their number.Im going crazy looking at the rushes every time I go into field,thanks.

Looking for similar ( quad and wiper ) around Ennis .