Given the day that’s in it, I think the government might want to reconsider if it is wise taking in so many refugees we’re forced to put them into tents and onto the floor of the airport, especially given these stats (source: https://data.unhcr.org/en/situations/ukraine)

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  1. Like surely at a certain point the governments duty of care to the refugee’s mandates they have to get France, or Hungary or the like to take more? Like we don’t have the room. We don’t even have the room to house builders to make more room in Dublin right now (at least according to RTE yesterday). At what point is the line drawn?

  6. I do think that many of the people who opened up their homes, would not do it for Irish homeless people and their children. There was an element of look at me, joining in and easing one’s conscience. The country showed that they could do it. This isn’t taking from the help that was and is been given. There is a prejudice or a fear against people who are without a home. I get it too. Different circumstances, one group of people are and were fleeing for their lives and safety

  9. This is absolute and utter overweening hubris on the part of the Irish government.

    It’s hubris to claim we’ll take in as many as want to come.
    It’s hubris to claim we’ll take care of them.
    It’s hubris to have to people who come here expecting refuge to then be forced into appalling conditions, living in tents and barracks and the floors of airport terminals.
    It’s hubris to lie to tens of thousands of Ukrainians, and expect the parents of children forced to sleep on floors with no comfort and no privacy to be thankful and happy.

    How proud and foolish do you have to be to promise help you can’t even properly deliver? Like trying to save a man hanging from the edge of a cliff, only to be forced to let him go, or have him pull you over because you’re too weak and unprepared to actually lift him up.

    Bringing people here with lies that we’re going to look after them when we can’t and won’t is straight up cruelty.

  11. They need our help it’s not like they or we have much choice.

    They are going to go where they have the best chance of getting on well. That’s going to be Poland and EU countries where Russian English or German is widely spoken. Given England isn’t taking many that leaves us.

    The way they are fighting back against Russia they have shown that they have a can do attitude.

  12. The government is virtue signalling to the EU and spending money they won’t be held accountable for so I don’t think they will care. It’s all being borrowed to be paid for because we clearly don’t have the ability to do it ourselves. It’s the next generations problem.

    What annoys me though is that we have had housing issues in this country for years and little to nothing was done about it. But now heaven and earth is being moved to accommodate all these people on money we don’t have when it couldn’t be done for our own citizens for years.

    I want to help as much as anyone else. But I am also realistic about what we can do. I don’t believe people have a problem with helping refugees as much as they do with how the government is speaking out of both sides of its mouth.

    This is the problem with FG/FF’s globalist, federalist Europe and identifying as European first and Irish second. It means our problems, our concerns will always play second fiddle to the EU’s will.

  13. Gov just wants to tease middle aged men into leaving their current partners. think about who benefits from the distraction. Gov does. Paddy up the road is too busy now to give out about the state of the road. Flipping pot holes as big as your elbow.

  14. Given the option between putting the foot down and nit allowing this many to enter, or continuing as normal, I think we have gone through with the better option. If it overtaxes the system and its ability to support them, that’s better than the alternative. If we say no to additional refugees, they don’t just all get refuge immediately somewhere else they have to wait while fleeing their homes from a hostile military power. The Ukrainian people are in an awful position, and if it costs the irish people to help them, I’d rather we take that cost than turn them away. Ireland has been in hard situations before, where we required international aid, and some countries gave more than their share and some less. I think we’d feel rather bitter if those countries giving so much would have said “hold on now, England isn’t pulling their weight here, I’m not sending more”.

  16. In this day and age of misinformation, you have to be careful about sources of information, how they’re portrayed and who’s providing it. I checked your cited source and can’t find your table, so I have to ask, did you put this together yourself and if so, why didn’t you include the likes of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and others who have taken on a similar or bigger burden than ourselves?

    I also checked out your profile. You’re a prolife Catholic who’s looking for accommodation in Dublin? Exactly how do you square your refusal of refugees with Christian values? Are you maybe alarmed at your dwindling chances of finding affordable accommodation in Dublin and worried about refugees making it more difficult for you?

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