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

Don't listen to their propaganda. They know more immigrant = a worse housing crisis.

Staggering figures

The latest housing figures show that a clear majority of those entering emergency accommodation in Dublin are foreign nationals, reports FATIMA GUNNING, with only 42% of housed individuals being Irish nationals.

Absolute sickening that my tax is constantly going to AS either by IPAS centers or emergency accommodation, these people are just going to be a drain on society

I am coming around to the idea that the migration controls are so weak, we should consider leaving the CTA, and implementing exit checks.

Although I don't want checks on the land border NI — ROI.

Is there any way we could have full exit checks at all ports and airports, but no border checkpoints, and instead have checks in ports and airports in NI?

If there is ANYONE on this thread who can offer actual, verifiable answers to the above that don't rely on emotive "feelz", or nonsense about the imaginary "far-right" (in a country known for its tolerance and liberal attitudes), or fingers-in-ears claims about how 1+1 doesn't actually equal 2 in relation to the cause and effect of the above, or the nonsense that we NEED tens of thousands of barely literate randomers or chancers to staff our hospitals and work in IT multinationals, well then I will be VERY happy to listen to it!!

Nobody is going to be able to offer actual verifiable answers to your questions that don't rely on emotive feelz, because your questions themselves rely on emotive feelz. Even the nonsense above is based upon nothing more than your own emotive feelz, fcukall in the way of actual verifiable facts.

Because from all I've read, the only beneficiaries are those arriving with the hand out - not the taxpayers funding them or the people living in the communities that have been saddled with the consequences.

Plenty of taxpayers funding them have benefitted enormously from those arriving with the hand out. If they hadn't, there wouldn't be accusations of an immigration 'industry', with immigrants providing employment for plenty of Irish people in healthcare, housing, education, councils, NGOs… so, so many NGOs!

Irish people aren't forced to stay at home at all, they can move out any time they wish, as was always done in previous generations when people had much larger families, and Ireland was an agricultural economy. Now Ireland is a services economy, and in order to maintain economic growth, the reality is Ireland needs to increase it's population. A natural increase in the population is insufficient, so we have to encourage people to come here, stay, and want to have families here, integrate into the community, provide employment, enrol their children in education, so that by the second and third generations, their children are net contributors to make up for the Irish who contribute nothing in economic terms (and 'feelz' are not a tangible asset, so don't be cribbing about second class citizens or any of that nonsense. There are only citizens, and those who are not citizens, there is no 'second class citizens').

One of the benefits of living in a capitalist society over living in a socialist society, is that in a capitalist society there is always motivation for social mobility, whereas in a socialist society - everyone but a tiny minority of the population haven't so much as a pot to piss in. I know which society I'd rather our Government continues to maintain, over one that eats itself like the UK in order to grab a few populist votes, and still manages to drive itself into the shítter where more immigrants are still coming, and people are worse off than they ever were before they ever bought into the turd wrapped in greaseproof paper that was Brexit.

As I leave Belgium or Germany, there are exit checks.

Can we have them?

Is the only way we can have exit checks is to leave the CTA and join Schengen?

That sums up the whole thing. The whole world simply can't live in Western Europe or North America.

It depends? Are these families with children coming from other European countries to Ireland and claiming asylum? Pretty insane a family could come from somewhere in Europe and jump past an Irish adult on the list.

Are they coming from countries like Georgia and Nigeria? Again insane.

All these foreigners with children joining the list are creating a bigger queue for the next round of Irish children and their parents getting added to the list.

If there's a list in the first place there shouldn't be a single foreigner added. It's a disgrace.Danish government respects it's natives, ours doesn't.

Socialists being social I guess? 😂

Genuinely though null I had no idea, I don’t pay them any attention. Like I know of them, so to speak, Paul Murphy gets a lot of mentions around here, but the only things I know about him are that he’s famous for never sticking to one party, he got a kick up the hole once and it made national news, and he went to Egypt and they couldn’t get rid of him fast enough. Mick Wallace and Clare Daly, I know they’re socialists, don’t know anything else about them only that they generate more headlines than seems proportionate for their influence. Oh, and then there’s Roderic and those tweets? He’s about the only one I’ve heard of that’s actually been vocal on social media, and he’s been the Minister for Integration and what not, so he has had genuine authority in that respect, but compared to the likes of Michael and Simon, and their predecessor Leo? Oh and was it Stephen Donnelly who made the claims about increasing the population to 10m?

EDIT: It wasn’t Stephen Donnelly, it was Simon Coveney -

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-30775243.html

If I had to guess why are socialists being so vocal about it, I’d say that like Sinn Fein have been doing for years, they’re hoping to increase the population of the electorate to the point where they might have a snowballs chance in hell of dislodging FF and FG’s baby-like grip on the levers of power in this country. I don’t see it happening though to be honest - Sinn Fein came close at one stage, but when their core voter base realised there was a disconnect between who they imagined Sinn Fein were, and who Sinn Féin actually are - SF’s populist nonsense turned out to be all a front, soon as people realised, SF support suffered.

I suppose they still don’t get that first a party has to get into a position of power, then and only then should they start banging on about needing more immigrants, like FF and FG have done, as I mentioned previously - stealing the Left’s thunder, for different reasons than the Left want more migrants though - FF and FG know we need more migrants to keep Irish people in employment by providing services and support for them, it’s an enormous enterprise in itself really between Irish employers keeping labour costs down and NGOs, accommodation providers and other invested parties in business, while foreign investors pour shedloads of money into the property market and foreign students keep our third level institutions going with paying enormous tuition fees.

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Fianna Fáil and fine Gael are socialists to you.

Trying to have a rational discussion on this would be like arguing with a barking dog.

The funny thing is most of these are working and paying tax.

And the chances are that the vast majority of those who have an issue with it are claiming social welfare.