Maybe it’s just me but it looks like we’re punishing real refugees because of what fake ones are doing.
I think it’s pretty crazy how Ukranian refugees were treated better than our own citizens.
They got an 800 euro rent stipend, free college education (didn’t even have to pay the student contribution fees) and full social welfare payments (or more if they were in college).
The government spending billions on refugees to make themselves look good while so many Irish people haven’t a pot to piss in is absolutely insane.
It was right to look after Ukranians, but it was absolute insanity how much we gave compared to our EU counterparts.
Not even our own have been given such generous education, welfare, and rent allowances.
We have been having the absolute puss taken out of us since this whole situation started
The Ukrainian situation was an example of our government doing the right thing the wrong way.
It is absolutely right that we should help Ukrainian people in the face of the brutal invasion. But by signing up to unlimited numbers, and making our welfare extremely generous, we made it unsustainable and now we’re here.
If we had agreed to take a proportionally workable number, with decent supports, there might not now be a need to introduce a measure such as this.
What are we going to do when this war gets bigger and involves more countries?
And what are they going to do about the non-Ukranisn ones who are living in hotels off the taxpayer? Any word on that?
I think Ireland just thought it would be a 6 month situation.
But ,the war getting extended didn’t help as the government didn’t have any planning or policy.
Many Ukrainians are in private licence agreements as part of TPU housing. It’s going to be interesting how they will pay their contribution to this on 38.80 per week. Will they all be reverted to accommodation centres or will their rent now be covered in full.
About time
This will surely impact Ukrainians being able to afford to fly back home for their doctor and dentist appointments. Not to mention their holidays back home.
Is there an election coming up or something ?
They get free houses when Irish citizens can’t even get housing. They jump ahead of the housing list, I’m sorry, but they shouldn’t get anything. They should get a PPSN number and work and pay rent. But yet the government is willing to give them shed loads of money for doing nothing. They could instead use that money to sort out the health system.
The health system is beyond disgraceful, 4 days waiting on a trolley in a corridor….this isn’t the dark ages.
Maybe now we can stop sniffing our own farts about how great we are to refugees every time our fairly paltry amount of practical aid gets mentioned
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Maybe it’s just me but it looks like we’re punishing real refugees because of what fake ones are doing.
I think it’s pretty crazy how Ukranian refugees were treated better than our own citizens.
They got an 800 euro rent stipend, free college education (didn’t even have to pay the student contribution fees) and full social welfare payments (or more if they were in college).
https://www.irishrefugeecouncil.ie/ukraine-students-in-ireland
The government spending billions on refugees to make themselves look good while so many Irish people haven’t a pot to piss in is absolutely insane.
It was right to look after Ukranians, but it was absolute insanity how much we gave compared to our EU counterparts.
Not even our own have been given such generous education, welfare, and rent allowances.
We have been having the absolute puss taken out of us since this whole situation started
The Ukrainian situation was an example of our government doing the right thing the wrong way.
It is absolutely right that we should help Ukrainian people in the face of the brutal invasion. But by signing up to unlimited numbers, and making our welfare extremely generous, we made it unsustainable and now we’re here.
If we had agreed to take a proportionally workable number, with decent supports, there might not now be a need to introduce a measure such as this.
What are we going to do when this war gets bigger and involves more countries?
And what are they going to do about the non-Ukranisn ones who are living in hotels off the taxpayer? Any word on that?
I think Ireland just thought it would be a 6 month situation.
But ,the war getting extended didn’t help as the government didn’t have any planning or policy.
Many Ukrainians are in private licence agreements as part of TPU housing. It’s going to be interesting how they will pay their contribution to this on 38.80 per week. Will they all be reverted to accommodation centres or will their rent now be covered in full.
About time
This will surely impact Ukrainians being able to afford to fly back home for their doctor and dentist appointments. Not to mention their holidays back home.
Is there an election coming up or something ?
They get free houses when Irish citizens can’t even get housing. They jump ahead of the housing list, I’m sorry, but they shouldn’t get anything. They should get a PPSN number and work and pay rent. But yet the government is willing to give them shed loads of money for doing nothing. They could instead use that money to sort out the health system.
The health system is beyond disgraceful, 4 days waiting on a trolley in a corridor….this isn’t the dark ages.
Maybe now we can stop sniffing our own farts about how great we are to refugees every time our fairly paltry amount of practical aid gets mentioned