“The intelligence services suspect the true number of people arriving here is between 50,000 and 70,000 annually.”
“John O’Brennan, professor of European integration at Maynooth University, said there was no discussion about what might happen if Britain radically strengthened its immigration policies.
“Once the UK left the EU, it became very difficult to align the two asylum regimes, especially as the UK was determined to take a very direct approach to this issue.
“The Brexit talks focused on trade divergence and not people. I suspect the Irish government didn’t want to raise it as they were arguing against any security regime on the border,” he said.
And will we double the relevant state resources to handle this….naaaah!
So nearly 30,000 asylum seekers. 18,000 of them bogus, 100k+ net immigration while we are on track to build 30,000 accommodation units, and nobody can get a doctor. Bloody fantastic
Look at how the government are moving heaven and earth to accommodate these people in Newtown Mount Kennedy – the riot police are involved and terrorising the locals into submission.
The state will roll out the red carpet again for these new arrivals, make no mistake.
Ireland just can’t deal with the sheer numbers of people arriving here. We don’t have the housing, infrastructure or essential services and they’ll never be increased fast enough to cope.
Something has to give.. and it’ll be more Irish people leaving.
Happy to be proven wrong down the line but I’m finding looking to the future of the country really bleak being honest.
Can someone please explain why the government is allowing this to happen. It’s clearly destabilising the country. It will have long lasting negative effects along with extreme short term effects.
Just remember, this is a choice.
Honestly a disaster. The state could fix this overnight.
It’s a poorly thought out policy to just think everything and everyone will be OK with unlimited migration and asylum into the country. Its awful to have claims arrive here only to join the tent city in Dublin.
Always funny in these threads that all the big noise makers ranting about immigration are Yanks and Brits.
I’ll be the first here to admit the issue of migration, refugees and our governments refusal to actually do anything about it has pushed me to the “far right”
I’ll be voting for the first candidate who promises to send these people home
I go out every second Saturday with a soup run. For a number of reasons I hadn’t been out in maybe a month and a half. Was back at it last night. It was possibly the most hectic night I’ve seen.
The reality is only about 40% of the queue were Irish. The rest were Eastern European, Asian and other countries I’m not going to guess because I don’t know. We ran out of everything. Food, drinks, blankets, toiletries, everything. When we were packing up we had more foreigners coming to us asking for help. We had nothing left.
I got talking to one of the men who help us, he himself is homeless and he was saying its getting bad out there. A lot more people relying on these types of services, a lot of anger and worry.
What are the government doing to the country? Its awful. Are these immigrants really better off being here, living in tents and relying on donations to eat, clean themselves, keep warm?
And Ireland is past breaking point. Soup runs can’t keep up. Nevermind hospitals, schools, etc etc. I dread to think what our tables are going to be like in the coming months.
Guess we better get to making more food and bringing even more stuff with us.
What’s crazy to me, is that we have been watching from the sidelines as all this immigration has been happening in Greece, Italy, Malta, France, Uk etc. for YEARS. And now its here and it’s clear to see the government have done absolutely nothing to prepare for it. Like zero.
Do you want a far right government in Ireland? Because this is how you get a far right government in Ireland.
The resentment I see building in the country genuinely scares me.
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“The intelligence services suspect the true number of people arriving here is between 50,000 and 70,000 annually.”
“John O’Brennan, professor of European integration at Maynooth University, said there was no discussion about what might happen if Britain radically strengthened its immigration policies.
“Once the UK left the EU, it became very difficult to align the two asylum regimes, especially as the UK was determined to take a very direct approach to this issue.
“The Brexit talks focused on trade divergence and not people. I suspect the Irish government didn’t want to raise it as they were arguing against any security regime on the border,” he said.
And will we double the relevant state resources to handle this….naaaah!
So nearly 30,000 asylum seekers. 18,000 of them bogus, 100k+ net immigration while we are on track to build 30,000 accommodation units, and nobody can get a doctor. Bloody fantastic
Look at how the government are moving heaven and earth to accommodate these people in Newtown Mount Kennedy – the riot police are involved and terrorising the locals into submission.
The state will roll out the red carpet again for these new arrivals, make no mistake.
Ireland just can’t deal with the sheer numbers of people arriving here. We don’t have the housing, infrastructure or essential services and they’ll never be increased fast enough to cope.
Something has to give.. and it’ll be more Irish people leaving.
Happy to be proven wrong down the line but I’m finding looking to the future of the country really bleak being honest.
Can someone please explain why the government is allowing this to happen. It’s clearly destabilising the country. It will have long lasting negative effects along with extreme short term effects.
Just remember, this is a choice.
Honestly a disaster. The state could fix this overnight.
It’s a poorly thought out policy to just think everything and everyone will be OK with unlimited migration and asylum into the country. Its awful to have claims arrive here only to join the tent city in Dublin.
Always funny in these threads that all the big noise makers ranting about immigration are Yanks and Brits.
I’ll be the first here to admit the issue of migration, refugees and our governments refusal to actually do anything about it has pushed me to the “far right”
I’ll be voting for the first candidate who promises to send these people home
I go out every second Saturday with a soup run. For a number of reasons I hadn’t been out in maybe a month and a half. Was back at it last night. It was possibly the most hectic night I’ve seen.
The reality is only about 40% of the queue were Irish. The rest were Eastern European, Asian and other countries I’m not going to guess because I don’t know. We ran out of everything. Food, drinks, blankets, toiletries, everything. When we were packing up we had more foreigners coming to us asking for help. We had nothing left.
I got talking to one of the men who help us, he himself is homeless and he was saying its getting bad out there. A lot more people relying on these types of services, a lot of anger and worry.
What are the government doing to the country? Its awful. Are these immigrants really better off being here, living in tents and relying on donations to eat, clean themselves, keep warm?
And Ireland is past breaking point. Soup runs can’t keep up. Nevermind hospitals, schools, etc etc. I dread to think what our tables are going to be like in the coming months.
Guess we better get to making more food and bringing even more stuff with us.
What’s crazy to me, is that we have been watching from the sidelines as all this immigration has been happening in Greece, Italy, Malta, France, Uk etc. for YEARS. And now its here and it’s clear to see the government have done absolutely nothing to prepare for it. Like zero.
Do you want a far right government in Ireland? Because this is how you get a far right government in Ireland.
The resentment I see building in the country genuinely scares me.