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

Can you elaborate on this as its the first time I have encountered this claim .

The problem is that there's no solution to the housing problem without some sort of control over immigration. The reason for this is that lack of housing itself is the bottleneck to further immigration. Building more houses means more immigration which means further housing problems, higher house prices and rents.

Mass immigration also keeps wages for the lower paid relatively low.

So if we're concerned about inequality, we have to talk about immigration.

FF TD questions the Sec-Gen in Justice, also costs of accommodation etc Oireachtas Committee

What was the point of entry for the majority of people who sought asylum in this country? They are coming over the Border so they may be arriving into Belfast and coming down. The vast majority of applicants present at the IPO for the first time, so the assumption is they have come across the Border

do have a crisis and we end up having people come here and go through the asylum process, and 80% of them end up being told that they are not eligible and being given an order to deport. What percentage of people are complying with their deportation orders?

However, without doubt, over the past few years the Irish people have lost their confidence in the State's ability to handle our asylum processing system.

It's nearly like they created the problem to solve it and they know the left wing alliance wouldn't give out about high immigration so they got a free pass in the dail. The left will however give out about FG fixing the issue they created which will keep voters from voting left.

In an Ideal world I'd vote left as the Danes do but also for a zero refugee policy.

The Irish flag brigade seem to think they should just move to another part of Ukraine. Why you'd want to stick around a country which may fall into Russian rule and is slaughtering civilians anywhere in the country is beyond me, I'd be the first gone.

We have Garda vetting for many occupations now. There is problem with certain judges and suspended sentences.

For law abiding people, I am not opposed to immigration, though I think we should be selective about it, based on things like background checks. If we have background checks for many jobs in Ireland, I think its only fair that we also have them for migration.

We know from extradition cases that fugitives from justice abroad sometimes exploit asylum and immigration systems. This may be a factor in some cases of document destruction during travel.

On labour/student migration. The Irish Dental Association for years has been calling for a reduction in the number of non-EEA citizens entering dentistry courses in Ireland, notably at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and University College Cork (UCC). They argue that many of the non‑EEA graduates “usually return to their country of origin” rather than remaining to practise in Ireland, which weakens workforce planning. Last year they called for the cap to be reduced to 20% in 2025, and 10% in 2026.

This idiocy and disingenuousness again from another columnist who fails to understand the legitimate argument being made against the imported scumbags.

We're stuck with our homegrown scumbags, they were born and raised here and we have to deal with them. That does not mean we have to import some more in addition to them.

The imported scumbags are a problem created by our free for all immigration policy, they are created directly by decisions our politicians make, the homegrown scumbags are not created directly by political decisions.

People who protest about and complain about the imported scumbags are protesting against the political decisions that caused them to arrive here, if we had better immigration policy then a lot of the imported scumbags wouldn't have been here to commit the crimes they have.

For anyone who lives here legally?

I don't give a **** about salt or pepper or whoever else youre listening to. I dont agree with rioting or attacking gards or damaging property.

Does Ireland need to be the garden of eden before its citizens can demand proper immigration and asylum controls?

Its the standard playbook of whataboutery.

Oh we already have rapists and murderers here so stop giving out about these new ones.

Maybe Kathy Sheridan could explain this graph to me n how Ireland is going to be different?!

Use simple language please Kathy n not NGO speak, some of us right wingers are a bit thick apparently!

watch the FFG party members change their tune as soon as Simple Simon does.

Do you trust the guy who created the mess that we're in to somehow fix this?