Kinvara is one of the nicer tourist spots a stones throw away from Galway city. There is already overstretched services in the city and services locally are non-existent. Primarily this is happening because of the “€9 million paid to MLC Hotel Ltd”. I imagine there is some sort of backhanders going on to make all this happen.
We are heading in to peak tourist season with the arts festival, race week and other festivals coming up and there is already a shortage of beds for tourists.
It’s absolutely bonkers the direction in which the state is heading.
The state needs to start building purpose build asylum seekers accommodation. It would be less contentious and cheaper in the long run. Also for the out of business hotels that are current being used house asylum seekers, we should consider housing regular people too. The housing crisis is going to get a lot worse a some sort of emergency stop gap housing solution is going to be needed soon.
Seems like a case that the folks in charge would rather put people up somewhere rural where services are already lacking than inconvenience big business in e.g. Dublin
Carna residents were successful in blocking this same thing earlier this year.
Oh go for it, throw a few hundred of them into the castle too while yer at it. Fuckwits.
Could they not just focus on the Irish housing crisis?
In the last two days, We’ve seen recent reports of 40% increase in house prices since last year , domestic abuse victims stuck at home with abusers and the government delaying their housing plan to as Martin said “probably” September this year. On top of that, 130 million was spent on a hotel for refugees in City west.
I’m just so fed up. I just wish they would care as much about the average Irish person who will never apply.
If the biggest problem in your life is that a hotel is being used to shelter people fleeing war or violence, maybe check your priorities.
I hope it works in their favour. There has to be an end point at some stage, this can’t go on the way it is.
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To a large extent, I agree with them.
Kinvara is one of the nicer tourist spots a stones throw away from Galway city. There is already overstretched services in the city and services locally are non-existent. Primarily this is happening because of the “€9 million paid to MLC Hotel Ltd”. I imagine there is some sort of backhanders going on to make all this happen.
We are heading in to peak tourist season with the arts festival, race week and other festivals coming up and there is already a shortage of beds for tourists.
It’s absolutely bonkers the direction in which the state is heading.
The state needs to start building purpose build asylum seekers accommodation. It would be less contentious and cheaper in the long run. Also for the out of business hotels that are current being used house asylum seekers, we should consider housing regular people too. The housing crisis is going to get a lot worse a some sort of emergency stop gap housing solution is going to be needed soon.
Seems like a case that the folks in charge would rather put people up somewhere rural where services are already lacking than inconvenience big business in e.g. Dublin
Carna residents were successful in blocking this same thing earlier this year.
Oh go for it, throw a few hundred of them into the castle too while yer at it. Fuckwits.
Could they not just focus on the Irish housing crisis?
In the last two days, We’ve seen recent reports of 40% increase in house prices since last year , domestic abuse victims stuck at home with abusers and the government delaying their housing plan to as Martin said “probably” September this year. On top of that, 130 million was spent on a hotel for refugees in City west.
I’m just so fed up. I just wish they would care as much about the average Irish person who will never apply.
If the biggest problem in your life is that a hotel is being used to shelter people fleeing war or violence, maybe check your priorities.
I hope it works in their favour. There has to be an end point at some stage, this can’t go on the way it is.
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