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

I see the Ukrainians have moved in the newly built modular houses in Clonmel

What a sickening waste of money. Imagine iirc this is near 500m cost to the tax payer. I cannot get my head around building this abomination for a war that wont last forever.

The only estate in the country with no Irish living there

We all know what's going to happen to this place eventually because this government has a track record of this and it'll be turned into an IPAS center.

Again I dont blame the Ukrainians, why would they turn down something handed to them on the silver platter. The real issue lies with this government, which is creating a growing divide between AS and Irish citizens and we're seeing time and time again this government doesn't care about Irish citizens.

There's something so fundamentally wrong with this country that Irish citizens are turning into 2nd class citizens. We're still living through cost of living crisis where our bills are still through the roof but nope lets spend millions on this modular homes and tax payer pays for the up keep, electricity and so forth of these modular homes.

Sickening

Care to counter any of the findings research?

Conspiracy theories are cool when it suits your narrative it seems. FFG secretly funding them? I do agree FFG are the big winners from this movement but that's more the fault of the opposition like SF for not taking a common sense approach and doubling down in their ideologies.

Speaking of gript interesting article up today.

https://gript.ie/stateless-roma-asylum-seekers-ran-brothels-in-dublin/

Everything that's wrong with the current system.

They should be used exclusively to house Irish born natives after the Ukrainians are returned home when the war finally ends. Now I'm well aware the Ukrainians won't actually be returned home. Some will by choice and the government will move international applicants into the houses they vacate. Like has been said we're now second class citizens.

I'll believe it when I see it. So far I'm not seeing it. Foreign born people are already starting to make up a large percentage of social in Dublin.

The vast majority of Irish also don't turn down social. Some foreigners also turn down the first offers but again it's not the majority.

I'm not siding with racists. I've repeatedly said that the attack in Tallaght was appalling. I don't know what it takes to get through to you. If you read back you will see that I was more afraid of this sort of thing happening than nerd Dwyer. It's likely the same group might be similarly inclined to attack nerd Dwyer.

PBP have been pissing down people's backs and telling them it's raining. That only worsens the situation IMHO. PBP mean well but they're a disaster. I know p Murphy from years ago, he's a nice guy but he's completely blind to the link between housing and immigration.

I don't know why I'm replying to you, all you want to do is scream at Dwyer etc. you seem to have zero interest in discussing the causes of unrest in poor socio economic areas. Discussing those causes doesn't mean the bashers shouldn't be prosecuted but it might prevent further attacks if action is taken to address legitimate concerns.

Additionally, you're crying racist. Is there any proof it was racially motivated?

Use the ignore button, it's a great great feature.

2/3 of my screen is just blank posts lol

OK… but you're still putting pressure on us indigenous Irish people by being here.

Malta and Liechtenstein are Microstates as I said, so even relatively small influxes are going to have an outsized impact on their % population change

They literally are - I’m Alright Jack said only a few days ago that the reason the under 40s weren’t buying houses wasn’t because housing was scarce, it was because they were going to university and because they were looking to move abroad for quality of life. Which is of course, utterly ridiculous and beyond detached from reality.

No GG I never once said it’s all immigration that has us where we are. That largely sits with the government (in)action over the last 15 years. Unfortunately it’s not possible to retrospectively rectify that - we can only manage what is in front of us.

Non EU Immigration is the single largest contributor to population and by extent demand that the government have direct control over. Adding 75,000 extra people, over the population of Sligo or Roscommon in the space of a single year is not a small thing.

We’ve had barely over 6000 commencements in the first half of this year - how in god’s name are we ever to possibly get on top of housing demand when we’re bringing in twelve times that on an annual basis, people whose entry the government have direct control over?

I’m absolutely not saying stop it entirely, but only a fraction of these arrivals are medical workers or essential construction workers. Happy to give them a pass, but for the rest, I think we should divert our needs to the Irish and EU labour market.

No it’s not unreadable. Did you actually click the link to read the latest article by DMcWilliams? The link is there in post #8090, no need to be on X.

Here you go:

https://www.davidmcwilliams.ie/post/ireland-needs-immigrants-but-our-economy-can-t-accommodate-an-infinite-number

He's mixing you up with tagging me by mistake. Innocent error.