‘It’s too many people in too small an area’ – row brewing over plans to house 280 migrants in Tipperary village of 165 people

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1. It really only matters the size of the area to house them IMO, if there is land available or an empty building then that would be better than an area that doesn’t or is more expensive.

   EDIT: I’ll put it into simplier terms since people are missing the point entirely:

   1. The current solutions are very expensive, they are housing people in hotels and spending quite a lot of money tearing down tent villages, just the tents alone they have spent what like 500k to take them down and put up fencing
   2. You can make the argument about facilities and I don’t think you will find anyone on this sub who has talked more about facilities being completely unplanned in areas of massive population growth but for instance this village has multiple doctors in the GP like the place is fucking huge, compare that to the shoeboxes for GPs in new developments around Dublin.
   3. My point above was with the caveat that it depends where it is how disruptive it would be from a social standpoint

2. That’s a piss take, and exactly the kind of blind actions from the government that are fuelling unrest over this 

   Obviously what happened in Coolock was a disgrace and totally unacceptable 

   But there is a reasonable middle ground to be found and nearly tripling a place’s population with complete randomers overnight is not a situation anyone would be pleased with 

   Government continuing to totally bungle this entire issue

3. RDS still empty yes?

4. It’s not made clear in this article but they were already accommodating a similar number of Ukrainians in this hotel so something tells me it’s not the number of people that’s bothering the residents…