About 10% of people moving to Ireland in year to April 2024 were seeking international protection, research finds

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  3. I would rather my life be slightly better than these peoples lives be a lot better. I would like the government to spend this money on me rather than them.

  5. Social media would make you think this number was much higher.

  6. > Of these, however, about 20 per cent were Irish citizens returning from a spell living abroad, while 18 per cent would have been citizens of another EU state and 4 per cent were from the UK.

    This is far lower than I would expect, considering the headline number is 150k

    > Of the remaining 86,000 people, about 19,000 are estimated by the report’s authors to have been arriving from Ukraine to seek Temporary Protection and up to 17,000 would have International Protection applicants.

    Also these figures don’t make sense to me

  7. 150 thousand moved here? Jaysus no wonder housing is fucked.

  9. We need to start having actual discussions about accepting numbers greater than the entire population of Kerry annually. It’s not sustainable and no moralising is going to change the fact we simply aren’t equipped to meet their needs.
    No one dreams of moving to a small town in Offaly. The benefits are just that alluring. Cut the benefits and the problem sorts itself

  10. How did 150,000 people move here? Like genuinely. We for sure didn’t get that many critical job workers

  11. I bet Ireland wasn’t even their first country of choice for the most part. They know other anglophone countries like the UK and US are may more of a pain in the ass to get admitted to.

  12. LMFAO.

    150,000 arrivals in one year.

    70,000 leaving the third level education system (rough estimate)

    – 33,000 deaths

    – 65,000 emigration

    = Net 122,000 additional people needing housing being added *each year*

    Country is struggling to build more than 30,000 housing units per year. Not to even mention tackling the backlog demand that has built up over the last ten+ years.

    This shit is going to turn into a dystopia

  13. And people wonder why our young people are flocking to Australia? It’s so difficult to imagine achieving a normal family life in this country anymore.

  14. Good grief.  What is the plan?  Is there a number e.g. 10 million that is seen as a good number or will corporations keep demanding cheap labour from abroad?  I’m sure this is working really well for some interest groups but looking at the massive emigration numbers don’t think it’s working for everyone.

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