“Mary O’Driscoll who owns it, is one of the islanders who applied in November 2020 to be part of the Irish Refugee Protection Programme (IRPP).
It was set up in 2015 in response to the humanitarian crisis that developed in southern Europe due to mass forced displacement from conflict areas, particularly in the Middle East.
Cape Clear residents have since raised €10,000 and the cottage has been made available for whichever refugee family decides to live on the island”.
So the main property gas been available for refugees since 2020, not just this year. Fair play.
It can’t be long until they are repurposing the huts on Sceilig Mhíchil
It’s getting absurd. I believe numbers are at 40-50k already just for Ukrainian refugees. That’s a city nearly the size of Limerick.
Other nations like France and the UK have accepted far less proportionally to us. But they are sending plenty weapons systems.
This is coupled with the fact other asylum seekers / economic migrants are trying to settle ireland since the UKs policy with Rwanda has pushed a lot of applications our way.
I’ve never seen a government so out of step with the public mood. The government are playing with fire here. If we get a recession and have to cut spending there is going be questions asked why are we spending 2-3 billion on a refugee policy that has no clear goals or limits.
Especially if other services have to get cut. It’s taken a literal decade for resources for disability services to get to an appreciable level after the last recession. If we get cuts to services because of this serious questions need to be asked.
Housing is already under unprecedented pressure. And the limited social housing situation is being allocated towards some asylum seekers. But somehow you’re a right wing loon if you have any apprehensions about it or try question it. Now we are talking about housing them in unpopulated islands.
Most refugees have zero support network or means to travel. They want to be close to services or try to get some sort of employment to support themselves (if they get approved to work). That naturally means cities.
Ireland must be made of rubber for that to work. Right?
meanwhile big countries like France have taken in next to nothing relative to Ireland. Just back from there and they have a whole tourist industry based on camp sites with 1st class mobile homes or actual houses. They could take in hundreds of thousands without their general public even noticing it.
Is there a report on how many refugees we can help and how many we can provide shelter and basic amenities for? I’ve yet to see a realistic figure anywhere.
I’m going to guess by this that we’ve just about reached our capacity
But theres going to be people here who are going to call for accepting more and more just to give themselves a pat on the back and say they’re helping. When in fact they’re probably doing nothing to help.
I’m all for helping this people but if theres no place to put them then we cant take them. Unless they sleep in tents. Are we happy with that in winter?
There is no space on the islands either. I know that every now and then you see articles from these islands saying “there are no young people, everyone is leaving” but there are actually tons of wealthy people living on these islands who buy up all the houses, then there are English people and Dubs who buy holiday homes there for a couple of weeks in August and other than a couple of ruins there is no accommodation at all.
If you seek planning permission you will be rejected. You’ll be told no one off housing/too many buildings on the islands already/new development would ruin the scenery. It is crazy some of these islands used to have 10x the population they have now back in the 1850s.
Just when the refugee crisis reaches a Fr. Ted level of farce, the powers that be decide to send them to Craggy Island 🤦♂️
People seem to think that all these people are poor desperate and unemployable.
We’ve taken in a few hundred doctors that were putting into the system and we have the capacity to take much more. I presume other industries are seeing similar influxes.
These people are now working in roles that were desperately needing filling and paying huge amounts of tax back into the system.
This country has gone to shit
There are nearly 90,000 refugees in Moldova, which is the poorest country in Europe with a population the size of Dublin. After living in four other countries and two other continents before coming back, I shudder to think what meltdowns would happen if the Ireland ever faced something approaching an actual problem.
It’s almost like we don’t have enough space
It’s like that episode of Mr. Bean where he’s trying to hide the food.
What the fuck are they gonna do in these places?
Refugee post, betting to see Eurovision get downvoted for his stubborn opinions in every thread that clearly majority of this sub doesn’t
agree with but he continues sputtering anyway 🍿
Irish politicians rhetoric and speeches just don’t match reality. The state just can’t deliver what the politicians promise, the problem is that the politicians are in charge of the state. It still shocks me how short sighted the department of housing and councils were. In trying to not cause the price of houses to fall, they have created a system that is paralysed and unable to respond. What disturbs me most is that only now politicians and new generations of voters are waking up to how bad the housing problem and the system around it is.
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Squeeze in as many as possible. Sad to see.
“Mary O’Driscoll who owns it, is one of the islanders who applied in November 2020 to be part of the Irish Refugee Protection Programme (IRPP).
It was set up in 2015 in response to the humanitarian crisis that developed in southern Europe due to mass forced displacement from conflict areas, particularly in the Middle East.
Cape Clear residents have since raised €10,000 and the cottage has been made available for whichever refugee family decides to live on the island”.
So the main property gas been available for refugees since 2020, not just this year. Fair play.
It can’t be long until they are repurposing the huts on Sceilig Mhíchil
It’s getting absurd. I believe numbers are at 40-50k already just for Ukrainian refugees. That’s a city nearly the size of Limerick.
Other nations like France and the UK have accepted far less proportionally to us. But they are sending plenty weapons systems.
This is coupled with the fact other asylum seekers / economic migrants are trying to settle ireland since the UKs policy with Rwanda has pushed a lot of applications our way.
I’ve never seen a government so out of step with the public mood. The government are playing with fire here. If we get a recession and have to cut spending there is going be questions asked why are we spending 2-3 billion on a refugee policy that has no clear goals or limits.
Especially if other services have to get cut. It’s taken a literal decade for resources for disability services to get to an appreciable level after the last recession. If we get cuts to services because of this serious questions need to be asked.
Housing is already under unprecedented pressure. And the limited social housing situation is being allocated towards some asylum seekers. But somehow you’re a right wing loon if you have any apprehensions about it or try question it. Now we are talking about housing them in unpopulated islands.
Most refugees have zero support network or means to travel. They want to be close to services or try to get some sort of employment to support themselves (if they get approved to work). That naturally means cities.
Ireland must be made of rubber for that to work. Right?
meanwhile big countries like France have taken in next to nothing relative to Ireland. Just back from there and they have a whole tourist industry based on camp sites with 1st class mobile homes or actual houses. They could take in hundreds of thousands without their general public even noticing it.
Is there a report on how many refugees we can help and how many we can provide shelter and basic amenities for? I’ve yet to see a realistic figure anywhere.
I’m going to guess by this that we’ve just about reached our capacity
But theres going to be people here who are going to call for accepting more and more just to give themselves a pat on the back and say they’re helping. When in fact they’re probably doing nothing to help.
I’m all for helping this people but if theres no place to put them then we cant take them. Unless they sleep in tents. Are we happy with that in winter?
There is no space on the islands either. I know that every now and then you see articles from these islands saying “there are no young people, everyone is leaving” but there are actually tons of wealthy people living on these islands who buy up all the houses, then there are English people and Dubs who buy holiday homes there for a couple of weeks in August and other than a couple of ruins there is no accommodation at all.
If you seek planning permission you will be rejected. You’ll be told no one off housing/too many buildings on the islands already/new development would ruin the scenery. It is crazy some of these islands used to have 10x the population they have now back in the 1850s.
Just when the refugee crisis reaches a Fr. Ted level of farce, the powers that be decide to send them to Craggy Island 🤦♂️
People seem to think that all these people are poor desperate and unemployable.
We’ve taken in a few hundred doctors that were putting into the system and we have the capacity to take much more. I presume other industries are seeing similar influxes.
These people are now working in roles that were desperately needing filling and paying huge amounts of tax back into the system.
This country has gone to shit
There are nearly 90,000 refugees in Moldova, which is the poorest country in Europe with a population the size of Dublin. After living in four other countries and two other continents before coming back, I shudder to think what meltdowns would happen if the Ireland ever faced something approaching an actual problem.
It’s almost like we don’t have enough space
It’s like that episode of Mr. Bean where he’s trying to hide the food.
What the fuck are they gonna do in these places?
Refugee post, betting to see Eurovision get downvoted for his stubborn opinions in every thread that clearly majority of this sub doesn’t
agree with but he continues sputtering anyway 🍿
Irish politicians rhetoric and speeches just don’t match reality. The state just can’t deliver what the politicians promise, the problem is that the politicians are in charge of the state. It still shocks me how short sighted the department of housing and councils were. In trying to not cause the price of houses to fall, they have created a system that is paralysed and unable to respond. What disturbs me most is that only now politicians and new generations of voters are waking up to how bad the housing problem and the system around it is.
But the money was just resting in their account!
The Blasket Islands soon to be repopulated.