‘Very real risk’ asylum seekers arriving in coming weeks will be living on the streets, Roderic O’Gorman admits

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  1. As noble and virtuous as it is to take in vulnerable people seeking refuge, there has to be a limit to how many we can safely cater for before we start get diminishing results with services and standard of living.

    I saw a person on here yesterday saying we should take a hit in living standards to accommodate these people. That’s all well and good, but how far do let living standards slip before you put on the brakes if its possible at that stage.

    We need start facing up to the reality and have the hard conversations now rather than after the horse has bolted.

  2. So maybe the answer is, if we have nowhere to put them, to send them home or to send them to another country instead. Like, if the options are that you can claim asylum in ireland but have to sleep in the rain in winter, outdoors, then maybe they need to be sent some with housing?

  3. That makes no sense. Asylum seekers are given *priority* over refugees.. so is he just blurring the lines between the terminology used?

    This is utterly retarded in any case. If the Irish state is supposedly providing for all these refugees, just ship them to another European country, and pay the bill for accommodation/supports.

  4. The government were greedy, took larger and larger numbers of Refugees in order to get those lucrative grants from the EU and this is where its lead to

  5. There’s a video going around Twitter of an Irishman in distress saying he was sexually assaulted by 3 refugee men. There was a story the other day about an mentally disabled girl who was raped and the rapist was given a lenient sentence because he was a refugee that didn’t know the language.

    What the fuck is going on?

  6. The level of criticism of public officials as always is entirely logical and reasonable. A lot of personal attacks on that particular Minister. Completely ignoring the incredibly difficult circumstances the country is in due to a major war. That Minister didnt create this situation. Its difficult for government officials to come out and make bold statements that we are shutting down the borders. How do you think that would go down internationally? Of course we need to slow down taking refugees in. However as a a member of the EU we are committed to continue taking Ukrainian refugees. Whether that is right or wrong I don’t know. The Minister is trying to get the message across that we wont have more space for people arriving.

  7. How about just send them back, the Georgians and the like, just process their claims faster for the love of God

  8. It’s amazing to think that a few people can object to housing and stop a development going ahead yet we’re powerless to stop a TD from allowing hundreds of thousands of refugees/asylum seekers in that impacts our lives.

  9. But why allow so many in in the first place Gorman,you wonder why people are so angry,we have a problem with our own homeless people,which you or anyone else in government don’t give a crap about ,stop allowing them in, when we have enough trouble with homelessness as it is instead of making it worse, but I wouldn’t hold my breath, you plonkers have to be seen as the do gooders,what an absolute shit show.

  10. Can someone in Government put a number on what our capacity is? It’s simple question. Or are we to assume the Government do not know our capacity or there is no number? That number should be based on accommodation available, education, health capacity and any other areas impacted.

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