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

I seen an immigrant driving around in a gold plated Bentley.

Then they parked the Bentley in a disabled spot took a buggy and used it to take their child to get a bus using a free bus pass. When they got on the bus they just left the buggy there and I heard someone ask the immigrant do they not want it.

And they replied no because the social welfare will just give them a new one.

I see two usual suspects trying to derail the thread already 🙄

“It’s legal therefore it’s grand” inbound

I love that the idea of 'take care of yourself before others' applies when you are in immediate life threatening danger and only on an individual basis - not on a societal/country basis apparantly though.

Flight is crashing? Put your own oxygen mask before helping others.

Don't have enough resources for the people currently on the island? Oh well some group are suffering over in a Middle Eastern or African sh*thole therefore we should help them because they have it much worse then we do.

Oh - add in too that other nations don't want them so they want us to take them. We say yes because we want to be the good boys of the EU - we need to grow a pair and just say no, f*ck off.

Its not wrong to not provide aid if you are struggling yourself - this applies on a countrywide and individual basis.

You wouldn’t leave your door unlocked at night for anyone and everyone to come in.

Why do we apply the opposite logic to our country’s door?

700k non eu citizens added to the population in the last 10 years.Its so demoralising, I genuinely feel like giving up on Ireland and accepting its going to become an unliveable shithole , at least I'll be dead in 50 years time is the one crumb of comfort from what is happening to the country.

The politicians of this country are complete scum. They steadfastly refuse to address the housing situation which has stifled the lives of so many Irish people under 40 and then continue to import unsustainable numbers of people .

This is fùcking insane.

We’ve essentially added the population of Dublin City, Limerick city and Waterford city of Non EU nationals to the country in the space of 10 years

What the hell - such an insanely steep growth in population in such a small time. The absolute neck of people to try and claim this doesn’t impact housing availability or prices or those who try and obfuscate that this is just an issue of supply.

Malign, lying ideologues

It was quick alright with two “anecdotes “

Massive waste of resources going on there too -

The vast majority of public spending on homelessness continues to be directed toward emergency accommodation, with little investment in prevention and long-term solutions, a report has found.

The Focus on Homelessness report shows that nearly €361 million was spent on emergency accommodation in 2024 alone, accounting for 86 per cent of all homelessness-related expenditure.

Meanwhile, only five per cent of total spending was spent on prevention measures such as tenancy sustainment and resettlement support.

The new report, from Focus Ireland and Trinity College Dublin, which analyses public expenditure on homelessness from 2009 through to projected spending for 2025, highlights a trend that despite billions spent, homelessness remains a persistent and growing issue.

Since 2014, the number of households in temporary and emergency accommodation has increased by 258 per cent, rising from 2,419 to 8,669 by mid-2024.

The report reveals that over €1.84 billion has been spent on providing emergency accommodation since 2013, with an increasing share going to private, for-profit providers.

In 2024, for every euro funding for homeless charities, three euros went to private for-profit providers, a dramatic increase from almost equal funding in 2014.

Mike Allen, advocacy director at Focus Ireland and co-author of the report, emphasised the need for a shift in spending priorities.

“This report underscores a simple but urgent point, while emergency accommodation is necessary to prevent people from having to sleep rough, it does nothing to address the root causes of homelessness,” he said.

“We need to rebalance our investment toward prevention and support services that offer lasting solutions.

“Continuing to pour money into temporary fixes without tackling underlying issues is not only ineffective but also unsustainable.

“These figures raise serious questions about the Government’s decision to limit expenditure on tenant-in-situ purchases, one of its most successful homeless prevention schemes.”

Eoin O’Sullivan, from Trinity College Dublin, said that emergency accommodation services are provided by either by the NGO sector or by the private sector.

“The bulk of the expenditure and the growth of that expenditure has been on private sector providers,” he said.

“The private sector spent 11 million in 2013 and it’ll be 270 million in 2024, so an extraordinary increase there.

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/majority-of-spending-on-homelessness-directed-toward-emergency-accommodation-1744246.html

Can we get a bit more clarification on this so posters know exactly what we can say.

What I mean is can we mention things that happen in our own areas.