We need more immigrants. Absolutely.
But we also need a system that works. And ours is horrifically broken. It’s incentivising human trafficking and criminality.
Virtually all the asylum seekers landing in Dublin already have permission in another EU country.
I see were finally introducing reforms to combat child trafficking, is that right? We’ve been criticised for it for over a decade. Policy coming out of Justice on immigration is generally terrible.
Does Fintan somehow think people haven’t been talking about immigration for the past few years? Maybe not amongst the chattering classes that Fintan usually resides but they certainly have been elsewhere.
It’s tied in. Because we let everyone in, and I mean everyone (last week alone, two Iranians with teardrop and gun tattoos and an Albanian with a swastika tattoo and a UK driving license), people traffickers are making a fortune.
We need to return people that have come from safe countries.
Chattering classes? Immigration hasn’t really been a major topic of discussion in Ireland, it’s rarely been a top political issue or the filocus of elections for example.
Justice do a pretty terrible job alright, for years now. FG ministers for the most part the last decade or more I’d say.
Last general election was just before Covid. Wasn’t an issue then but immigration has sky rocketed since then. What it means going forward we’ll have to see.
Well, I can tell you that based on your google search terms, this isn’t the current immigration policy. The government party sold their soul and brought in the neo nazis to prop them up so they could stay in. Their fuhrer is pushing the moderates for the above, and it might happen, but hasn’t happened and it’d be a long way off if it did. It would be appealed, most likely successfully as it’s just racist, and unethical. The hillbilly hicks in the countryside love voting far right, and it’s not unusual to see confederate flags at their old american car rallies, to the sounds of rockabilly bands. Kid Rock type people. Basically, pondscum.
The one time immigration was a high profile issue was back in the early 2000s or so when we had a referendum and decided that people born here wouldn’t be entitled to citizenship. Which reflects pretty poorly I think. But anyway, o’toole is correct, it’s not generally been a high profile issue since, except amongst awkward squad oddballs and arseholes.
It’s not been a high profile issue as while we have had immigration for at least 30 years we’ve only experienced mass immigration during the last few years. We’ve yet to see how this plays out once a general election comes along. To say that nobody is talking about it would be head in the sand type stuff. Although on brand for Fintan.
Every person in the country is talking about it FFS. Idiotic time wasting nonsense from FO’T.
In comparison to the UK, we are barely a whisper when it comes to talk on immigration.
Only yesterday, the fella that switched from foreign secretary to home secretary referenced it in his comments afterwards. He is still committed to ‘stopping the boats’ or something like that. Him of foreign extraction too of course.
No, you’re completely wrong there now in fairness.
You might want to raise the bar in terms of who you are chatting with mate.
It’s a hot topic on the INTERNET
If it’s on Breitbart, it means everyone is thinking it!!
Stop ffs.
Everyone is talking about housing, it just happens that immigration with a housing supply issue highlights issues.
You portray the average Joe as being all excited about an “ Immigrant problem “ that has totally filled your head.
You just need to chill.
@iggy is correct in fairness Glas as per the below. Our levels of immigration at the moment are off the charts. The housing crisis then on top of it is not good. The country doesn’t have enough accomodation to house them.
I think that’s an issue that successive governments, planning laws etc. in this country have not addressed. We are not an overly densely populated country. There’s fuckloads of space. People seem to have an allergic reaction to the development of high rise apartment buildings. Mention social housing and somebody will say “oh yeah, we need to build that… but don’t build it near me” and so on. The most marginalised groups in society are the least powerful and are also least likely to vote so politicians really don’t seem to prioritise them then. Increase social housing and you eliminate a huge amount of housing supply issues (rental properties become more readily available as well).
The data you share is interesting (although I may be misreading it).
Currently, Ireland’s refugee population is 81,256? Austria is three times that (with a population less than twice that of Ireland), Bulgaria double Ireland’s, Czech Republic over 400k. I’d imagine the latter two is exacerbated by their relative proximity to Ukraine. You can argue that I’m cherry-picking the numbers (I only went as far as the letter ‘C’ and was looking at European countries with high figures).
Ireland will appeal to refugees for a couple of reasons. 1) We speak the English language. This is a language that many people around the world have a basic knowledge. I’ve tried a bit of Czech; it’s not the easiest language to wrap your head around and I’d be surprised if schools in Syria would teach it. 2) We’re not the Tans (we are in the EU and we don’t have a reputation as a bunch of colonising cunts).
On the other side, we are at the edge of Europe, a place that necessitates air or sea travel so it’s not as easy to get to as other countries.
He’s incorrect, we’ve had mass immigration for ages. I wonder how many Polish people moved here during the Celtic tiger years for example.