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

https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0628/1520774-social-housing-dublin/.

This gives an idea of what social housing is costing

You mean the estate built without planning permission and continually expanded after warning letters to stop by Wicklow County Council? Well read that article and you'll see that they have applied for retention planning permission so the matter is in front of Bord An Comisiún Pleanala. In the meantime they are still making money over hand and fist*. Planning laws bedamned.

Regarding the sewage issue, that's one that is extremely concerning and potentially affects more than half the population in Dublin. Currently it produces twice as much waste as permitted by licensing laws, currently this 40,000 gallons of human waste is trucked to Uisce Eireann water treatment plants.

Uisce Eireann has warned that "plans for a sewage treatment plant on the site of an ‘illegal’ refugee village could pollute the drinking water for almost a million residents in the Dublin area."

This is their official response to the application for retention planning permission. Now some might find this concerning that since the Liffey is 110 meters south of the development and feeds directly to the Poulaphuca resevoir which supplies water for a larger part of the greater Dublin area.

So not only are the companies behind this ignoring planning laws, building on state owned land, but the majority of people in Dublin could become negatively affected so they can make a quick buck. I am very concerned if that is the case.

*Seefin Events who lease the estate have been paid €10,444,565 by the Department of Integration to provide accommodation for asylum seekers last year according to the first article by Business Plus above. It also states that the directors are directors of other companies that have been paid a combined €33 million from state accommodation contracts last year. So with money like that being thrown around, even if they keep this in the courts for another year it's worth it while they keep on getting given our money to do so.

Why am I not surprised? In a functioning country this kind of thing would result in people being sacked. I posted articles a couple of years ago from the security correspondent of the Sunday Times who said that this kind of thing was going on and that a mafia clan from Rome was using this scheme to help launder money.

Edit: This is a reply to Scar100s post on who is getting money for housing migrants. The quote is below.

Jaysus when drug dealers are getting in on this scam the profits must be eye watering.

No guards harassing, no risk of jail , getting shot . No need to pay out on money laundering either.

Mr Trump can you take your billions back as it is just allowing our idiot politicians dig a bigger hole for our kids to pay for. Hey kids, stick around after college it's only 3k a month rent for a 3 bed semi in salubrious balbriggan nowadays!

It’s probably down to the fact that the kids are from the WEST BANK. Even a quick glance at the article would have given you that information.

I didn’t make up a fake quote

The quote was “racial profiling”, I wrote “racially profiled” - big f’in diff

Amusing that you think this is some kind of gotcha - shows how flimsy whatever you’re clinging to actually is.

Let’s talk about the actual story please. Gardaí arrest illegal immigrant rape suspect, NGO criticises Gardaí methods of apprehension. That is the story, that is what happened.

Does that story change whether the quote is racial profiling or racially profiled? No it does not - the fact that you are trying to make out as if the story is lies and a “conspiracy” on the basis of that is beyond laughable and disingenuous.

Feel free to continue though because you’re making a fool of yourself quibbling over semantics while ignoring the actual content of the news story.

Spain getting on fantastically well with its new neighbours, a real success story like Sweden, Germany etc