Adding 20% to the population of a town with limited services , was never going to work well. Seems to be a government policy to dump refugees in rural towns on the west coast. Without consultation with the locals
That really is a legitimate concern. Makes no sense to be trying to house thousands of long-term refugees and asylum seekers in relatively small towns and villages out in rural areas that don’t have the infrastructure for it. Just because there are plenty of accommodations there for visitors doesn’t mean the rest of the local amenities have the necessary capacity; tourists on short visits who’d normally be using those accommodations generally wouldn’t be using the same local services like the local GPs, hospitals, schools, transit, government services, or even things like shops that refugees living there for weeks or months will need to avail of.
We need another city to house 64,000 people.
You can’t just put people into communities with limited resources and expect it all to work out.
It’s amazing that the government are putting the heath services for Irish citizens under so much pressure, especially considering the forthcoming winter and the large increase in Covid cases predicted.
The government know what pressure the heath services were under from Covid last year.
The government seem prepared to sacrafice the health and lives of Irish citizens this winter.
We have to get it into our heads that this isn’t getting any easier any time soon. It’s happening all over the country, this is going to be a tough winter in so many ways.
Dumping refugees into small communities on the west coast that simply can’t sustain it is baffling..
Simply reeks of “out of sight, out of mind” mindset.
The more I read stuff like this, the more I’m ashamed of us Irish. We’re a people who note the historic, no blacks, no Irish, no dogs treatment to our own emigrants.
Our tourism proclaims the land of 100,000 welcomes. But we’re basically just racist.
I don’t feel any pride in being Irish any more, after decades of thinking were were, but we just weren’t put to the test, being an outlying island that few wanted to visit.
Some commenters here are stating that refugees are being dumped in Killarney because it’s a rural town, implying that it’s in the middle of nowhere and therefore a good place for refugees to be “out of sight, out of mind”. Killarney is a hardly rural town in the traditional sense, because it’s a tourist town and a major hub between Tralee and Cork. Rent and house prices in Killarney is massive because of this and one would see B&Bs every three houses as you drive along the road.
That being said, I’m convinced that the government is intentionally taking a page from the Tory playbook on pitting people against each other (aside from TDs also being landlords themselves and benefitting from the housing crisis). The FFG could have built more houses and improved hospitals years ago and we would not even be discussing this matter! Putting refugees in Killarney is deliberate to artificially up the house prices, and evoke frustration on people to blame refugees and distract us from government corruption.
Two nursing homes have been closed to make way for refugee accommodation in Ireland.
Found out from an accountant that a well known publican is making €60k per week so far from housing them. The same person is looking to refurbish an old run down hotel in the town to house even more.
People have to be lobbying for this
…and for no reason at all people voted a far right party into power!
They won’t stop until it’s like Tralee. Tralee for years wanted to be like Killarney. Think it’s gonna get its wish now but maybe not like they wanted.
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Adding 20% to the population of a town with limited services , was never going to work well. Seems to be a government policy to dump refugees in rural towns on the west coast. Without consultation with the locals
That really is a legitimate concern. Makes no sense to be trying to house thousands of long-term refugees and asylum seekers in relatively small towns and villages out in rural areas that don’t have the infrastructure for it. Just because there are plenty of accommodations there for visitors doesn’t mean the rest of the local amenities have the necessary capacity; tourists on short visits who’d normally be using those accommodations generally wouldn’t be using the same local services like the local GPs, hospitals, schools, transit, government services, or even things like shops that refugees living there for weeks or months will need to avail of.
We need another city to house 64,000 people.
You can’t just put people into communities with limited resources and expect it all to work out.
It’s amazing that the government are putting the heath services for Irish citizens under so much pressure, especially considering the forthcoming winter and the large increase in Covid cases predicted.
The government know what pressure the heath services were under from Covid last year.
The government seem prepared to sacrafice the health and lives of Irish citizens this winter.
We have to get it into our heads that this isn’t getting any easier any time soon. It’s happening all over the country, this is going to be a tough winter in so many ways.
Dumping refugees into small communities on the west coast that simply can’t sustain it is baffling..
Simply reeks of “out of sight, out of mind” mindset.
The more I read stuff like this, the more I’m ashamed of us Irish. We’re a people who note the historic, no blacks, no Irish, no dogs treatment to our own emigrants.
Our tourism proclaims the land of 100,000 welcomes. But we’re basically just racist.
I don’t feel any pride in being Irish any more, after decades of thinking were were, but we just weren’t put to the test, being an outlying island that few wanted to visit.
Some commenters here are stating that refugees are being dumped in Killarney because it’s a rural town, implying that it’s in the middle of nowhere and therefore a good place for refugees to be “out of sight, out of mind”. Killarney is a hardly rural town in the traditional sense, because it’s a tourist town and a major hub between Tralee and Cork. Rent and house prices in Killarney is massive because of this and one would see B&Bs every three houses as you drive along the road.
That being said, I’m convinced that the government is intentionally taking a page from the Tory playbook on pitting people against each other (aside from TDs also being landlords themselves and benefitting from the housing crisis). The FFG could have built more houses and improved hospitals years ago and we would not even be discussing this matter! Putting refugees in Killarney is deliberate to artificially up the house prices, and evoke frustration on people to blame refugees and distract us from government corruption.
Two nursing homes have been closed to make way for refugee accommodation in Ireland.
Found out from an accountant that a well known publican is making €60k per week so far from housing them. The same person is looking to refurbish an old run down hotel in the town to house even more.
People have to be lobbying for this
…and for no reason at all people voted a far right party into power!
They won’t stop until it’s like Tralee. Tralee for years wanted to be like Killarney. Think it’s gonna get its wish now but maybe not like they wanted.