Immigration and Ireland - MEGATHREAD *Mod Note Added 02/09/25*

Yes the benefits massively outweigh the minor cost of housing.

The health service for one would collapse tomorrow if it wasn't for immigrants.

I think there’s a distinction to be made - the poster asked about the billions spent on asylum seeker accommodation, as far as I’m aware f all asylum seekers go into the health service. If you’ve anything to say otherwise I’d be interested to see it.

Skilled migrants are a big benefit, asylum seekers (majority of whom are not genuine) are not

Yeah id love to know when our healthcare became dependent on immigrants. Because my parents and grandparents have never spoken of a time when they had no health service.

And theres plenty of people experiencing a failed healthcare system currently. Depending on your needs and means.

As you say its a throwaway comment by people who like to sound righteous.

Similar to 'we need immigrants to build houses to house immigrants'.

If you sit with any of these statements for even a minute of reflection you realise how rediculously fallace they are.

An immigration policy doesn’t have to be all or nothing. It’s possible to have stricter criteria to reduce immigration, and prioritize other groups like healthcare workers.
The idea that we have to accept 150k immigrants per year because many immigrants work in the health service is nonsense.

You already know this I’m sure, so it looks like you are deliberately misdirecting the conversation . But, the EU isn’t the whole world. India and Brazil for starters are not in the EU. I’ve nothing against India or Brazil but if we don’t want close to 150K immigrants per year, we can be more picky like Australia about who comes with which skills.

Again, you are deliberately pretending I said we don’t need immigrants. It is possible to scale back immigration, and still prioritise health care workers.

I haven’t mentioned criminal cases in my last post either. Just because 99.99% of people who want to move to Ireland are decent hard working people, that doesn’t mean they we need to have an immigration rate of hundreds of thousands per year.

Either you’re deliberately misinterpreting these points, or your just stuck in some ideological position repeating the same talking point mantra , regardless of what’s being said.

Re your last paragraph, you’ll soon come to find that it is in fact, both

So we need more immigrants to provide healthcare for all the immigrants?

The healthcare system worked the same as it does now. During the boomy 00s when Ireland became an attractive economical destination, like every other industry the HSE was only happy to flood the market and lower the wages/standards.

That has a self fufilling loop of more and more foreign educated and less Irish educated in the system.