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

Oh no no no. Immigration has zero impact on housing. Didn't you get the memo? Jeez..

According to Duncan Smith the outstanding bench warrant and Seamie high tailing it over to America to avoid his day in court don't matter at all.

It was just used as a stick to beat Trump and the US with.

Who would have thought no English speakers would put pressure on the local facilities and schools. Surely the focus goes on the non English speakers.

https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22584428/

20% of the workforce are non-nationals. In your reduced immigration scenario, who would do the jobs 'not' taken up by the people declined entry to the country?

The Greens and Roderic O'Gorman were in government just a couple of years ago. O'Gorman was minister for integration for five years or so. We all saw how that went.

Yep, and we'd have people welcoming them with open arms. If half of Lagos decided to hop on a few planes and come to Ireland we'd be told to shut up and just accept it.

Wasn't there an incident a last year where a load of lads in a Congo prison escaped, broke into the women's prison then proceeded to rape and burn alive most of the women? If these lads decided to come here they'd be put up in a nice hotel, fed and let wander the streets of any small town or village they're out into.

Here's the article.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgyrxz4k6zo

One of John Stuart Mill’s arguments for free speech was that exposure to ideas we disagree with keeps our counter-arguments fresh and incisive. These people have no idea what they’re up against and, so, make the feeblest of arguments. They genuinely think they can say something like, ‘But what about the health service?’, and immediately win the argument.

By this logic, countries with smaller populations than ours should not be able to cope! The flaw in your logic is that if you take on immigrants to perform services for the population, those immigrants (quite rightly) also require services as they themselves become the population.

We need a properly structured visa system and a strong efficient well balanced AS process which doesn't allow for an amnesty. Deportations orders mean leave.

Only allow an appeal on a rejected AS application if it is done after a person has complied with the deportation order.

I dont feel The problem immigration as such, its the mass immigration of people heavily dependent on the state long term and the optics of what gets handed out.

Irish workers competing on rental market with Ukrainians eligible for 800 a month HAP. The same Ukrainians who were offered free third level education while Irish families had to stump up.

Some of those AS/immigrants have been responsible for serious crime.

• The double murder in sligo
• The murder of Aisling Murphy
• The school stabbings on Parnell Square
• The Romanian insurance fraudster (and his family) with the best part of 2 dozen convictions in 30 years while never working, living it up with a fairly new year and a lovely 3 bed semi detached.
• The Roma community who are nothing but a blight on Dublin city centre. Rampant shoplifting and using the streets for a toilet (I've witnessed this outside my office on Gardiner street several times)

The IPAS centers who got lucrative state contracts were handed out to people under investigation by CAB (drogheda), Or the parent company of the hotel in Dundrum in Tipp which was not compliant with company law for several years and is now in Liquidation. Zero control at government department level and zero due diligence.

The volume of people Coming into country who wont make any meaningful contribution and will be heavily dependent on state supports long term is a massive problem. I think thats where people in the main take issue.

Too many stories of irish people with cancer having to fight for, and sometimes not get a medical card yet they are handed out like confetti to people who rock up here from safe countries seeking asylum, gaming the system as they are really economic migrants.

All the while government ministers keep announcing money for Palestine, for Sudan, for Ethiopia, for wherever else they can send all the while Irish kids are dying or suffering due to a health service that trundle along at snails pace.

What parties would make up this alternative government?

SF, SDs, Labour, PBP and Independents wouldn't have the numbers to form a government.

Less migrants ,less services, less housing requirement ,less workers.

we desperately need a credible strong borders and pro-deportation party in this country.

The likes of FF FG SF Soc Dems Greens and all the various lefties will NEVER deliver.

Nigerian on a false south African passport apparently. A minor detail that wasn't mentioned in any of the media articles.