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

There are buildings which are classified as derelict in this country which could and should be renovated and brought back into use.

We need to increase supply any way we can.

Solving the ongoing housing crisis should be the priority, not housing people who shouldn't be in the country to begin with.

Genuine applicants have never been the issue but your position seems to be to just allow anyone and everyone into the country. This isn't sustainable.

Policy needs to change.

Biometric enrollment was mentioned, but it should be an EU wide policy, once a person enters the EU they should be enrolled into a database that can be accessed by all EU member states.

Nobody is taking this issue seriously at that level. We see these types of things being rolled out for people travelling who aren't asylum seekers, the buy in isn't even all that expensive tbh, it's not outside the ability of the EU to start getting this right.

So we shouldn't question the system then?

Stats show the majority of people arriving don't have a genuine claim, after they're rejected they remain here.

So we have absolutely no control over who comes into the country or what they do while they're here.

Change is needed even if you think it's going to be difficult to achieve.

I think we agree 😳 on this anyway .

No.point increasing our own population without housing or people to staff services . We need more supports for women who want/ have to work to pay the big mortgages more state sponsored childcare ,after school care .

They have this in Scandinavian countries however but still their birth rates are low . Other factors at play here ?

Women often take the hit career wise but I am glad to see that it is improving with term time work and job sharing . Parental leave for fathers and more flexibility in the work place generally is the only way people will consider having more than one child with costs the way they are now.

It's no point saying country and society before economy . Finances are important too or people cannot live the life they want and if they can't they will either emigrate or cut back somewhere . And that major expense that is cut back by many is seen to be having a child or a second one .

People talk about the Celtic Tiger ..many people were only getting their heads above water and starting to relax and live here when the 2008 crash happened .

And that was because the economy was relying on houses and developers to keep the boom going .

I don't think MM and some in FF have quite grasped that they are heading down the same road again. They say they have but if so would they not have sorted all the issues like housing , health and infrastructure as well as and not just education and employment ?

When the multinationals and their money leave we will have all these problems still and no money to sort them out .

"An indigenous Irish birth explosion, particularly within the 'get up early in the morning' class, would solve a lot of our problems."

Maybe 22 years from now ..but in the meantime ..