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

It wouldn't take long at all to allocate some land, setup some tents or temporary shelter, hire security, facilities and essential staff to oversee and assist with basic food and health care.

It was done in Laois on the grounds used by Electric Picnic. It can be done again!

My suggestion would be Airport/Port adjacent for cutting down on transportation costs.

This is very possible and relatively easily done as it was the first time - all that's missing is the will!

It's not mandatory afaik just recommended.🙄

Don't know how they justify that to be honest unless they have already advertised and didn't find anyone suitably qualified in Ireland / EU .

Was it a specific post ? Specific qualifications ? Like South Asian Studies maybe ?

I thought it would be fairly obvious but seeing the other suggestions by other posters saying send them all back on the next flight appear to not understand how airports or anything else works.

People who seek asylum are not criminals by default. This country does thankfully not detain non criminal people on that basis.

Why would we not check as part of the asylum process?

Do you agree with other posters here it's possible to send people who claimed asylum back on the next flight?

This is an example of something that's really not being considered enough - the longer term, wider effects on our society.

Yes the immediate issues of the impact on housing, essential services, social supports etc are real, significant, and critical when it comes to immigration in general - but it's the longer term impact of the effect of all this will have on communities, culture, politics and policy, education, and all the other elements that make up the way we live and our values.

Now, to be clear - this is not all negative by default. Different voices and different ideas are a good thing (part of the current problem we have within politics is the never-ending go-around between FF and FG - even more so since they stopped pretending and have essentially merged in the last decade), but we are not considering the impact of hundreds of thousands of new arrivals in a span of only a few years will have on our longer term way of life and national identity.

We're in fact already seeing some of these effects through things like hate speech legislation, the nonsense hysteria around the "far-right" from politicians, media, and even here, Africa Day, BLM marches, and so on - all things that have come about because of, or been imported with, the surge of migration we've experienced.

It's not just housing demand that we can't keep up with - this pace of societal change is significant too and it's causing problems more and more because not only are integration efforts badly lacking, but preferential treatment and prioritisation of new arrivals over the locals is causing a lot of resentment and discontent too, hence the rise in frequency and attendance of protest marches across the country.

I live in Ireland, born to Irish parents, educated in Irish schools and grew up surrounded by Irish culture, history and society. We are FAR from perfect as a country in so many ways absolutely - but there's nothing wrong with wanting to retain that uniqueness and identity, especially in an increasingly divided and polarised world, and especially against attempts to dilute that identity and sovereignty in the name of "inclusiveness" (or really economic growth and profit, and an EU goal to reduce homogeneity among member states as espoused by the late Peter Sutherland - someone who had the power and influence to make this happen).

What SHOULD be happening of course is that immigration benefits US - not just multinationals, coffee shops, delivery companies, and the new arrivals themselves. It SHOULD be on OUR terms, and from places and in numbers that WE decide, and NEVER at the expense of our own society or people as is the case now - after all, every one of these migrants (legal or otherwise!) is here because they want something we have! That's fair enough to a point, but why should they be the only ones who benefit, or who benefit more?

Continuing to ignore this and the legitimate and genuine concerns and issues that people have (and are already experiencing!) will only increase the divisions that are already forming between different groups.

I can easily see situations where, just as in the past people who had the chance would move out of certain areas because of criminality, drugs, decay or lack of investment etc, we will see demographics shift massively in those areas - it's already happening in my own immediate area. Not so much in the wealthier parts of the town though! Maybe we'll get to the point of American-style "Chinatowns" and so on yet which in my view benefits no one as it only strengthens those divides.

What happens if or when we start to see more of the problems seen in certain parts of the UK, Germany or France? We've already experienced some of this in the past few years to often tragic effects but why do some think that Ireland will somehow be spared this? If anything we're even more vulnerable because of current policies and an outright refusal to learn from, and attempt to prevent, Ireland from having to go through their mistakes.

Again, immigration can be absolutely a positive thing - so long as it's properly managed and with the interests and rewards to the host country and its people being paramount in all discussions, decisions, and policies made around it. This is where we are failing, and failing badly!

Unfortunately though, I fear we're already past the point of no return. Now we're into damage control and damage limitation - but even here we're failing through the willful ignoring of increasingly obvious and deteriorating problems that are being seen and felt all across the country.

Instead our leaders, their NGO lobbyists, our mainstream media, and those making significant coin from all this are sleepwalking us down the same path already trodden by the countries I mentioned earlier.

We've made significant progress as a country and society in the last 35/40 years - but we're rapidly undoing much of it, and while the well-connected and wealthy upper class will be insulated and even benefit from this, the rest of us will not be so lucky!

It's not looking good already!