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

The unemployment rate for people from the congo in Ireland is 63%. The average unemployment rate is 5%.

Now if one of them wins a rose of trailer or is a fast runner our media will be all over it. But one thing is for certain they'll never mention the 63% unemployed. Keep building paddy, someday you'll get to the bottom of the housing crisis.

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so a lot of Irish priests tried to improve lifes for Nigerians we should take in anyone from the huge continent of Africa? Is there nowhere else near the Congo that people can find refuge other than a small island on the far side of Europe that can’t house their own people

That figure, 63% comes up when you Google congo unemployed Ireland. That doesn't include those on disability so God knows what percentage pay their own rent here.

Perhaps you can update Google on the percentage unemployed, in the meantime I'll go with their figures.

Something tells us some people will never integrate, no matter what.

Sorry data from 2016 is racist. Everything is racist.
Note: also sarcasm.

From memory 2016 data is census related. If there’s never data available please share it.

Apologies, I’m not fully up to speed on who said what as I’m not following this thread meticulously.

I think you’ve missed the point of my post though. Anyway, going to bed, goodnight.

There used to be a charity ad on TV's yonks ago that used the slogan 'help them to help themselves'. Today it's help them to help themselves to our country.

The brilliant Roderic O'Gorman was out a few months ago showing just how brilliant he was and that it was the pesky "Rightwingers" (AKA normal people) distorting his infamous tweets and that he was all just misunderstood and everything.

https://archive.is/6aVK9

Let's take a little look at Claire Scott's article but before I do, it seems this comment by Claire…

The false claims against O’Gorman resurfaced and generated more abuse and threats directed at him.

…means that her credibility is shot - I'd have said 'allegedly false claims' there Claire

“The department simply communicated reforms in languages used by people already in the international protection system,” he said. “That has since been twisted by right-wing agitators into the claim that I invited refugees to Ireland. Anyone can still read the tweets. That never happened.”

Rod seems to be saying that the tweets were for the domestic market and only for the AS already in Ireland. 'Tweets' generally float about on the world wide web - The clue is in the 'world wide' bit Rod - Al Jazeera had it on their site the same day you hit the 'post button' on the 26th Feb 2021

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/26/ireland-to-end-much-criticised-system-for-asylum-seekers-by-2024

They kindly mention this bit too (Claire Scott forgets to):

"Under the new proposal, applicants will be housed in state-run reception centres for four months before those still waiting for a decision to be made will be moved to own-door or own-room accommodation such as houses or apartments."

Those bloody rightwingers twisting your tweets Rod eh? Bastards!

It [the white paper/tweets] had political consensus when it began but has since been abandoned.

The reason it had "political consensus" is that Roderic and the GP told FFG (in the long negotiations for the last Govt) that if there was no white paper/tweets they were taking the ball home and that FFG could feck off to SF to negociate - FFG didn't fancy that prospect at all

“I’ve done my best to try to be as clear about what I did put up online, but it has been entirely distorted — and done so in a very deliberate and very targeted way.”

You lying twat - You were never asked about it, due in no small way to the Govt control of the Irish media - You got nothing but soft interviews and anytime there was a soft in-studio debate we got "We invited minister O'Gorman to join the discussion, but he wasn't available" - Every single time! - The wimp hadn't guts to attend once

“The department simply communicated reforms in languages used by people already in the international protection system,”

When Rodders says "The department" what he really means is himself. What a nerve blaming the dept, because the same publication that Claire is writing for here, had a brilliant article on what the department really thought - Remember that one

No one knows what Roderic O’Gorman, the integration minister, was thinking when he began tweeting about his plans to reform the immigration system in early 2021 but staff at the International Protection Office (IPO) were aghast.

They were concerned about O’Gorman’s decision to translate his plans into multiple languages including the Georgian language, offering to provide asylum seekers with their “own-door” accommodation and “wrap-around supports, healthcare and education” on social media without having the infrastructure or finance to support it.

Months later O’Gorman’s colleague, Helen McEntee, announced an amnesty that allowed illegal migrants to gain residency if they came forward. How this was going to work was also unclear but there were concerns that it too would attract a new wave of migrants who might travel here and apply for asylum.

Where could it have all gone wrong I wonder?

It seems Claire Scott is blissfully unaware of this article as she fell for O'Gorman's BS -

https://archive.is/EfdEL - You may need to switch off dark mode if using

It does go to show what a slippery little worm Rodders actually is. You f'd it up Rod, simple as that - own it. It has cost the country billions, it will undoubtedly change the country for ever and you've made two star hoteliers richer than the Kinahan OCG

I think Bertie’s comments have helped him regain some support among voters who are pissed off with the current government, particularly those who feel that the current shower of political leaders don't listen to the  concerns of the ordinary people.