Since this is just lining the pockets of hoteliers and private interests I would say no, it’s a massive waste of cash and hurts local economies. Given that the asylum seeker issue is not going away anytime soon, surely investing in longer term solutions would be ideal?
This sounds the title from an article on Waterford Whispers.
I’ll save them the time. It isn’t.
Nope but keep investing.
Was the latest figure that 80% of applicants are denied?
Seems removing the appeals would be the best way to speed this up and save money.
The next investigation should be looking at how many people have been evicted to facilitate these buildings to state for IPA use. A colleagues dad has a building that is used by workers in the local meat factory, he’s been bombarded by state to lease the accommodation to them.
We don’t have a tourism industry anymore to line hotelier and property owners pockets, instead of any tourist business making into the wages of the tax paying workers on this country, instead every dime goes directly into the hoteliers and property owners pockets. Its a racket for themselves and no one else benefits.
80% rejection rate and there’s a massive monetary incentive (for these property owners) to get people to come here illegally. Sounds like a great idea.
Well Banty McEnaney gets €130 million a year from it so I bet he feels its great value
No it’s not, and that’s not just the cost of the accommodation. It’s also the cost to the taxpayer of funding all the NGOs and bureaucracy needed for the migrants as well All of the extra costs they put on the services of the state like transport, education, health etc.
The public have been sold a pup on this.
Half of them own the accommodation
No, like everything else politicians touch, theres no value for money there
They *should* be buying and managing state-owned facilities for asylum seekers with public sector workers on permanent contracts, but I don’t think that’d make people much happier.
The issue here is that its a further redistribution of wealth in Ireland to those that need it least.
90% of that money is not leaving the Irish economy. Its going from the states coffers to hoteliers, owners of residential properties and commercial property owners.
The state is throwing our money at wealthy property owners to house people from all over the world. Its a bailout.
I wanted to book a hotel in Wexford for 3 nights during the Fleadh Cheoil in August. Sunday, Monday & Tuesday. I play the concertina. Hotels in the town are charging €260 per night. A single room in Galway City will cost a student around €600 per month.
That’s the net result here. Ordinary people suffer with high rents, high hotel costs and low availability of accom. because our elected officials are just handing their issues over to the private sector to resolve.
They are spineless.
How much money is going to be spent to investigate that this is a waste of money?
Sure it’s like the bike shed, the children’s hospital, the printer, the spire…….
Good, an investigation should be unsparing. But neither should it be limited to ‘asylum seeker accommodation’. What about HAP? Which costs us close to a billion annually, not building any houses, not developing a stock of state owned accommodation, not supporting people into home ownership. But has put billions and billions of euro into the pockets of private landlords, many of whom may not even be resident in Ireland. Why is it that the government would prefer to spend billions of tax payers money enriching private landlords than ensuring we had taxpayer owned accommodation that we could use to deal with this crisis and ones into the future.
There is something deeply rotted in our approach to housing, for asylum seekers, for Ukrainians, and for everyone else. This Government is hoping the media and lunatics distract from the problem, by focusing on those with the least power to do anything about it. The choice is ours, whether we let them away with it again, or not.
The biggest scam since NAMA
Guy who owns Mosney is paid handsomely. Better to give them government housing.
A €20 Million Commission will take five years to find out that one billion is indeed not value for money
Anyone for a costly report, possibly followed by a tribunal?
A billion is considerable for any endeavor. Just seems like graft.
This idea of throwing people money is stupid and doesn’t fix any of the problems.
Government needs to build housing themselves and own it. I don’t care if the country racks up debt in the meantime, it will pay off in the long run.
If there was a mass building program and everyone in the country had access to a government owned home to rent for life for 20% of their income then the government would be making money in the long run and insured for the future for housing supply, but I guess that’s not in the interests of many people out there unfortunately.
I think we need to spend more billions on it, and stop spending the relatively little we are spending on infrastructure, and if anyone disagrees they are far right.
€30k ish per refugee. We should absolutely help them while their applications are in/under appeal and if their applications are approved but that sounds on the face of it to be incredibly bad value. Not surprising items turned out expensive given that they needed to offer enough money to hotels to get them to sacrifice their core business model which could be €100 per night. Build proper cost effective accommodation for them with the services they need on site.
How is anything that costs 1 billion of public money, but which delivers next to no value for the tax payer, good value for money?
You literally couldn’t make this shit up.
They should investigate that money the vice president of Fianna Fail *allegedly got for it too while they’re at it
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Since this is just lining the pockets of hoteliers and private interests I would say no, it’s a massive waste of cash and hurts local economies. Given that the asylum seeker issue is not going away anytime soon, surely investing in longer term solutions would be ideal?
Great value
It’s a racket
Yes, if you own IPAS centers.
hahahhahahahahahahahahhahaha……………………………………………………….hahahahahahahahahahahhaha
This sounds the title from an article on Waterford Whispers.
I’ll save them the time. It isn’t.
Nope but keep investing.
Was the latest figure that 80% of applicants are denied?
Seems removing the appeals would be the best way to speed this up and save money.
The next investigation should be looking at how many people have been evicted to facilitate these buildings to state for IPA use. A colleagues dad has a building that is used by workers in the local meat factory, he’s been bombarded by state to lease the accommodation to them.
We don’t have a tourism industry anymore to line hotelier and property owners pockets, instead of any tourist business making into the wages of the tax paying workers on this country, instead every dime goes directly into the hoteliers and property owners pockets. Its a racket for themselves and no one else benefits.
80% rejection rate and there’s a massive monetary incentive (for these property owners) to get people to come here illegally. Sounds like a great idea.
Well Banty McEnaney gets €130 million a year from it so I bet he feels its great value
No it’s not, and that’s not just the cost of the accommodation. It’s also the cost to the taxpayer of funding all the NGOs and bureaucracy needed for the migrants as well All of the extra costs they put on the services of the state like transport, education, health etc.
The public have been sold a pup on this.
Half of them own the accommodation
No, like everything else politicians touch, theres no value for money there
They *should* be buying and managing state-owned facilities for asylum seekers with public sector workers on permanent contracts, but I don’t think that’d make people much happier.
The issue here is that its a further redistribution of wealth in Ireland to those that need it least.
90% of that money is not leaving the Irish economy. Its going from the states coffers to hoteliers, owners of residential properties and commercial property owners.
The state is throwing our money at wealthy property owners to house people from all over the world. Its a bailout.
I wanted to book a hotel in Wexford for 3 nights during the Fleadh Cheoil in August. Sunday, Monday & Tuesday. I play the concertina. Hotels in the town are charging €260 per night. A single room in Galway City will cost a student around €600 per month.
That’s the net result here. Ordinary people suffer with high rents, high hotel costs and low availability of accom. because our elected officials are just handing their issues over to the private sector to resolve.
They are spineless.
How much money is going to be spent to investigate that this is a waste of money?
Sure it’s like the bike shed, the children’s hospital, the printer, the spire…….
Good, an investigation should be unsparing. But neither should it be limited to ‘asylum seeker accommodation’. What about HAP? Which costs us close to a billion annually, not building any houses, not developing a stock of state owned accommodation, not supporting people into home ownership. But has put billions and billions of euro into the pockets of private landlords, many of whom may not even be resident in Ireland. Why is it that the government would prefer to spend billions of tax payers money enriching private landlords than ensuring we had taxpayer owned accommodation that we could use to deal with this crisis and ones into the future.
There is something deeply rotted in our approach to housing, for asylum seekers, for Ukrainians, and for everyone else. This Government is hoping the media and lunatics distract from the problem, by focusing on those with the least power to do anything about it. The choice is ours, whether we let them away with it again, or not.
The biggest scam since NAMA
Guy who owns Mosney is paid handsomely. Better to give them government housing.
A €20 Million Commission will take five years to find out that one billion is indeed not value for money
Anyone for a costly report, possibly followed by a tribunal?
A billion is considerable for any endeavor. Just seems like graft.
This idea of throwing people money is stupid and doesn’t fix any of the problems.
Government needs to build housing themselves and own it. I don’t care if the country racks up debt in the meantime, it will pay off in the long run.
If there was a mass building program and everyone in the country had access to a government owned home to rent for life for 20% of their income then the government would be making money in the long run and insured for the future for housing supply, but I guess that’s not in the interests of many people out there unfortunately.
I think we need to spend more billions on it, and stop spending the relatively little we are spending on infrastructure, and if anyone disagrees they are far right.
€30k ish per refugee. We should absolutely help them while their applications are in/under appeal and if their applications are approved but that sounds on the face of it to be incredibly bad value. Not surprising items turned out expensive given that they needed to offer enough money to hotels to get them to sacrifice their core business model which could be €100 per night. Build proper cost effective accommodation for them with the services they need on site.
How is anything that costs 1 billion of public money, but which delivers next to no value for the tax payer, good value for money?
You literally couldn’t make this shit up.
They should investigate that money the vice president of Fianna Fail *allegedly got for it too while they’re at it
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