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

Has Jim O'Callaghan turned utterly far right?

Only a few years ago, anyone suggesting this would be branded a far right something or other.

Far-right 🤣 Maybe the penny has finally dropped that the huge cost of welcoming all and sundry from around the world is not sustainable. It’s time our elected politicians realise that Irish families and workers are sorely fed up with foreign nationals cashing in on benefits paid for by Irish taxpayers while they are paying through the nose for their own living costs, home, kids education and healthcare.

It’s good that someone has finally dared to close off the racket. JO’C says they will look at student visas but every part of the immigration system needs stricter controls because everyone knows we’re a soft touch, eg. a Ukrainian woman interviewed for the New to the Parish column in the IT today said she came here from Poland because “she knew English and she thought it was easier to claim asylum in Ireland than it was in the UK”. She has received accommodation, education support and further mentorship while her entire family are still living in Ukraine. Is Poland not a safe country? There’s so many stories of scamming the good nature of the Irish - it’s beyond infuriating.

Well surprise surprise, that loser Henderson is giving out about what O Callaghan said.

I distinguish between war refugees and people fleeing safe countries.

The ones with expensive things may have come from a better off background in Ukraine but lost everything during the war but the car.

We havent fought a war in 105 years, but some of us think they are experts on it. I agree we were too generous at first, but I think what we are dealing with now is a legacy of the previous policy, rather than of the present one.

Its human nature to follow the money and we did so too and still do in the job market when doctors emigrate.

If you don't want them to get welfare, then you have to let them work. If they are elderly, that may not be an option.

Its not like someone from a peaceful country who comes here, destroys their travel documents to hide where they came from or possible criminal records, and then lives off the taxpayer for years or works in those restricted range of jobs that the law allows. Ukrainians don't need to destroy their ID, quite the contrary, because everyone knows theres a war going on there.

This is insane. Dublin City Council alone are spending hundreds of millions (37% of their entire budget) accommodating foreigners and enriching private landlords like Banty Mcnaney. Nick Delehanty seems to be one of the few calling shenanigans on the whole rotten operation.

I have been working in this country since I was 13 and I would regard myself as a very hardworker and sensible with money but as it stands, I have not been able to save one cent to send any of my children to college. I am dreading 6 years time when my eldest is heading that way.

I am done with this kind of shoite thousands of times over. Done!

Giving my hard worked tax away to people who have contributed nothing but a sob story.

I'm confused, what financial supports are Ukrainian refugees receiving for attending college that your children won't receive?

And when they get their free first rate education here and the supports eventually stop, with housing and costs here, they'll head home or off to another affordable part of the world and their new destination or home country reaps the benefits of their college degrees.

Weird to see people talking about war refugees as 'the handouts crew' and not Irish people, given that.

Charity starts at home. Irish people should benefit first and foremost from State Supports, if there's a few quid left after the bills are paid and necessary infrastructure being built, then we can always use the foreign aid mechanism to benefit people not from these shores.

This has already been phased out. They currently receive the max adjacent/non-adjacent rates, free fees and student contribution in the same manner that Irish students satisfying a means test would.

The ARP hasn't been phased out. So that's something Ukrainians students get that Irish ones don't.

Love how the Ukrainians get all the blame when there is no wars going on in all the other sob stories countries these leeches come from.

At least Ukraine are actually fighting and dying for their countries survival.

Morocca, Somalia, Afgaistan, Albania, Georgia, Nigeria.

Sure let’s blame the Ukrainians😀

How many are dragged in to fight or have left for Ireland to dodge fighting .

Latest (week 50) figs in - 252 weekly total

The Somalis are a fierce resourceful bunch - Here's how I think the journey goes

They build a large raft on the beach from stuff that washes up on the shore. When it's seaworthy, they launch on their journey to treasure Ireland. The cape of good hope looks a bit dodgy so they push out into the gulf of Aden before heading north. It gets a bit tricky in the Suez canal as they avoid getting mangled by massive tankers. I think they're usually intercepted by the Guardia Civil as they approach the straits of Gibraltar and are offered an escort to Spain, but they wave their phones and say 'No please, look, Ireland give own door four month', as they carry on their way - as the Guardia Civil lads head back to Algeciras muttering 'Los Irlandeses son muy estúpidos' - 2746 Somalis in state accommodation awaiting "own door…"

Or perhaps they just come from the UK

"Ireland, the Land of Saints and Suckers"