Who are buying all the new houses?

Do u live in Ireland?

I see we've just narrowed the problem down to deliveroo and kebab shop workers now, that'll solve the housing crisis alright 🙄

So we should leave the EU?

Immigrants are coming here to work as doctors. You cant increase the number of doctors to where it needs to be without immigrants.

A lot of the people building our houses are also immigrants.

If all the immigrant builders went home tomorrow, how many new homes do you think we would build?

There is a big difference between immigrants working here in skilled labour and people that dont work at all.

Relatively Quick way to fix the skills short with regard to trades and professionals is to stop pushing college on everyone in school at every opportunity and promote apprenticeships.

When was the last time you were in an Irish secondary school? The LC and getting points needed for college courses is basically pushed from day 1.

Apprenticeships aren't really promoted at all.

Deliveroo drivers are not essential workers, I’m sorry but you’ll not convince me of that.
Far too many non EU student visas being granted also. Finally there are the asylum applicants, which as we know about 80% of whom are not genuine.

Mad that in the last 3 years all of a sudden our country is no longer viable without non EU takeaway drivers

Agreed, I can't remember the last time I was in a chipper in rural Ireland run by Irish people. The reason these establishments are run be immigrants typically is because we have become above frying chips and grilling burgers for small money. Simple as.

My local takeaway in a small village is run by very nice gentlemen from Pakistan. It's an important amenity to the village. Without them the place would most likely be shut.

I went to a vocational school in the noughties, if you had any level of academic ability at all then you were very much encouraged to go down the college route. The apprenticeships were only ever encouraged to wreckers and class clowns.

Its market economics and nothing else. Deliveroo exists because people want it and are too feckin lazy to pick up their own takeaway. And to make the business model economically viable the drivers need to be on minimum wage or close to it. Irish people aren't likely to be interested in doing it as a job therefore low paid migrant workers are the only option.

Not saying I agree with that. Deliveroo is hardly a necessity. But we have an open economy and the benefits that come with that such as high paid MNC jobs. The downside is low paid work like Deliveroo driving and having to hire immigrants to do it.

Exactly, it’s not a necessity

Hire an Irish or EU national to do it - if the business model relies on importing non EU as wage slaves then perhaps they need to question if the model is truly viable

More than happy to have EU immigrants and non EU immigrant labour for jobs that are actually essential

Fully accept your example, but I’m saying for the moment we need to prioritise getting our house in order in terms of infrastructure and housing as a priority. In the last couple of years we’ve seen the largest proportional increase in population of any non micro state country in the last century. This needs to be addressed practically. If that means we have to pay a bit more for berries for a few years until we can get on top of things so be it.