Don’t show this to the right wing lads with podcasts.
Good news imo. Not for racial purity but keep things slow. A revolving door immigration policy serves nobody except for GDP hawks
That’s legal immigration from what I understand.
So 60k non EU people moved here in a year, during a house crisis?
>’It was the fourth successive 12-month period where more than 100,000 people immigrated to the State.’
Why are we putting up with this in a housing crisis?!
25,000 Indians moved here last year, the same as the year before, and about the same (20,000) in 2022. Nearly 70,000 in 3 years.
The article did its best to avoid stating that stat of course.
I have nothing against them (they are hard working people who do not deserve what has happened to some of them recently) , but during a housing crisis its insane allowing so many in from India.
Canada and Australia realised they had a housing crisis a few years ago and immediately put caps on the number of students allowed in from India.
What did we do here (a country with possiblity the longest ongoing housing crisis)?
Our universities actively increased their marketing to India to entice those Indians who could not go to Canada and Australia, thus the massive increase in Indians here now.
63k from outside the EU – more than half. In a housing crisis, HSE crisis, lack of prison space crisis. Pure insanity.
Cheap labour uber alles. The pie must grow. Line must go up.
Good news.
No where to live at a sensible price.
There needs to be a massive curtailment of student visas. 128,000 on student visas in 2024 is bonkers.
At this stage, it’s become a massive people trafficking operation to benefit Colleges, English language schools, accommodation providers, and businesses looking to profit from cheap casual labour.
Once your course is over, your visa should be revoked, your PPS number deactivated, and you should leave the country. Staying on to work jobs not on the critical skills list, (Deliveroo drivers, retail workers, or security guards), makes a mockery of the whole system.
It’s also a kick in the teeth to low paid indigenous workers, having any security they had further hollowed out and eroded by the rise in casual workers and zero hour contracts.
Not to mention the additional pressure it puts on Irish students who have to compete with international students for accommodation.
And through increased CAO points requirements for courses, as Irish students are competing with fee paying international students for college places.
A system very badly operated, causing a lot of social issues, but one which no one wants to addresses.
Is this a sign that the economy is fucked again?
Still not enough of a decrease. David McWilliams argued that net migration figures would have to be reduced by more than 50% to address current housing demand, nevermind the backlog that has been generated by years of demand grossly exceeding supply (Even this projection of his is highly optimistic). The people on this post celebrating the 16% decrease have set their expectations for reducing immigration at anything below 2023 (which is surely a poor standard to set your expectations at given that that year saw record numbers of people entering the country). Moreover, the Irish political establishment is still overwhelmingly of the view that mass migration is a good thing and that it is the solution to all of our problems, including housing (Paschal Donohoe literally thinks the tax receipts generated by incoming migrants will grow the economy and therefore fix the housing crisis). They have not, unlike politicians in the UK, introduced any kind of legislation that makes it more difficult for people to legally migrate to this country. The levels of immigration will continue to remain high for the next few years with our population growth, consequently, outpacing every other developed country even as our housing market is tightly pressed. I can’t see the trend of rapidly increasing house prices, bouyed by unprecedented net migration, dropping until virtually every young Irish person has emigrated.
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Don’t show this to the right wing lads with podcasts.
Good news imo. Not for racial purity but keep things slow. A revolving door immigration policy serves nobody except for GDP hawks
That’s legal immigration from what I understand.
So 60k non EU people moved here in a year, during a house crisis?
>’It was the fourth successive 12-month period where more than 100,000 people immigrated to the State.’
Why are we putting up with this in a housing crisis?!
25,000 Indians moved here last year, the same as the year before, and about the same (20,000) in 2022. Nearly 70,000 in 3 years.
The article did its best to avoid stating that stat of course.
I have nothing against them (they are hard working people who do not deserve what has happened to some of them recently) , but during a housing crisis its insane allowing so many in from India.
Canada and Australia realised they had a housing crisis a few years ago and immediately put caps on the number of students allowed in from India.
What did we do here (a country with possiblity the longest ongoing housing crisis)?
Our universities actively increased their marketing to India to entice those Indians who could not go to Canada and Australia, thus the massive increase in Indians here now.
63k from outside the EU – more than half. In a housing crisis, HSE crisis, lack of prison space crisis. Pure insanity.
Cheap labour uber alles. The pie must grow. Line must go up.
Good news.
No where to live at a sensible price.
There needs to be a massive curtailment of student visas. 128,000 on student visas in 2024 is bonkers.
At this stage, it’s become a massive people trafficking operation to benefit Colleges, English language schools, accommodation providers, and businesses looking to profit from cheap casual labour.
Once your course is over, your visa should be revoked, your PPS number deactivated, and you should leave the country. Staying on to work jobs not on the critical skills list, (Deliveroo drivers, retail workers, or security guards), makes a mockery of the whole system.
It’s also a kick in the teeth to low paid indigenous workers, having any security they had further hollowed out and eroded by the rise in casual workers and zero hour contracts.
Not to mention the additional pressure it puts on Irish students who have to compete with international students for accommodation.
And through increased CAO points requirements for courses, as Irish students are competing with fee paying international students for college places.
A system very badly operated, causing a lot of social issues, but one which no one wants to addresses.
Is this a sign that the economy is fucked again?
Still not enough of a decrease. David McWilliams argued that net migration figures would have to be reduced by more than 50% to address current housing demand, nevermind the backlog that has been generated by years of demand grossly exceeding supply (Even this projection of his is highly optimistic). The people on this post celebrating the 16% decrease have set their expectations for reducing immigration at anything below 2023 (which is surely a poor standard to set your expectations at given that that year saw record numbers of people entering the country). Moreover, the Irish political establishment is still overwhelmingly of the view that mass migration is a good thing and that it is the solution to all of our problems, including housing (Paschal Donohoe literally thinks the tax receipts generated by incoming migrants will grow the economy and therefore fix the housing crisis). They have not, unlike politicians in the UK, introduced any kind of legislation that makes it more difficult for people to legally migrate to this country. The levels of immigration will continue to remain high for the next few years with our population growth, consequently, outpacing every other developed country even as our housing market is tightly pressed. I can’t see the trend of rapidly increasing house prices, bouyed by unprecedented net migration, dropping until virtually every young Irish person has emigrated.
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