Every time he tries to hide behind this shite, it should be drilled gone repeatedly that the migration issue is entirely due to his party, both the FF wing of it and the FG one.
People have been making sounds about the dangers and potential fallout, even just from a sheer logistical POV (eg. number of people in Ireland vs number of available dwellings and not the ‘white replacement’ racist shite) and for years the likes of Simon and Helen McEntee wrote it all off a “far right rhetoric.”
I remember a politician on the Late Late in the 80’s looking directly at the camera and telling us to leave because there was nothing or us here. Nothing has changed in those 40 odd years
Spoken like a man who hasn’t been in government for all of this housing fiasco
Not exactly a controversial statement
Most of it shouldn’t to be honest. Also there should be a review and reclaim process where the context changes.
They’re painting this now as just for new arrivals, but the Overton window will move back quickly. I give it month’s before columnists are proposing that parents lose their social housing if their kid fucks up.
The headline is misleading but is still correct.
I don’t understand this debate. Not everyone in emergency accommodation has the right to social housing (that’s what the circular he’s referring to is talking about)
…so?
This statement is meaningless from a policy point of view, so I can only interpret it as a political wink to the right that the government isn’t afraid to say bad things about migrants, and won’t be “silenced” or “shut down” by those woke lefties
“No everyone has a right to state housing, but institutional landlords have a rignt to buy up all the new housing l”
He’s factual correct, Section 7 Non-EEA nationals of Housing Circular 41/2012 covers it. It’s a sad state of affairs when individuals and journalists can’t distinguish between policy and opinions.
Yet another attempt to reframe the housing crisis as being the fault of immigrants. It’s not subtle but it’ll sadly probably work.
Very interesting Inside Politics podcast this week that pointed out the Tánaiste always goes after homeless immigrants and never well-paid immigrants workers who actually drive up rent
He appears to be subtly conflating emergency accomodation with state housing more generally-as the circular lays out the entitlement to the latter is clearly laid out (e.g. you can’t rock up off the boat and get a free house)
Ah thr good old dogwhistling.
He is correct
Wow, so brave.
Yet they’re handing them out to refugees. Soft touch Ireland , dopey again.
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Every time he tries to hide behind this shite, it should be drilled gone repeatedly that the migration issue is entirely due to his party, both the FF wing of it and the FG one.
People have been making sounds about the dangers and potential fallout, even just from a sheer logistical POV (eg. number of people in Ireland vs number of available dwellings and not the ‘white replacement’ racist shite) and for years the likes of Simon and Helen McEntee wrote it all off a “far right rhetoric.”
I remember a politician on the Late Late in the 80’s looking directly at the camera and telling us to leave because there was nothing or us here. Nothing has changed in those 40 odd years
Spoken like a man who hasn’t been in government for all of this housing fiasco
Not exactly a controversial statement
Most of it shouldn’t to be honest. Also there should be a review and reclaim process where the context changes.
They’re painting this now as just for new arrivals, but the Overton window will move back quickly. I give it month’s before columnists are proposing that parents lose their social housing if their kid fucks up.
The headline is misleading but is still correct.
I don’t understand this debate. Not everyone in emergency accommodation has the right to social housing (that’s what the circular he’s referring to is talking about)
…so?
This statement is meaningless from a policy point of view, so I can only interpret it as a political wink to the right that the government isn’t afraid to say bad things about migrants, and won’t be “silenced” or “shut down” by those woke lefties
“No everyone has a right to state housing, but institutional landlords have a rignt to buy up all the new housing l”
He’s factual correct, Section 7 Non-EEA nationals of Housing Circular 41/2012 covers it. It’s a sad state of affairs when individuals and journalists can’t distinguish between policy and opinions.
Yet another attempt to reframe the housing crisis as being the fault of immigrants. It’s not subtle but it’ll sadly probably work.
Very interesting Inside Politics podcast this week that pointed out the Tánaiste always goes after homeless immigrants and never well-paid immigrants workers who actually drive up rent
Jeez, Simon, what an idea. [If only it was a long established policy already](https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-housing-local-government-and-heritage/circulars/circular-housing-412012-access-to-social-housing-supports-for-non-irish-nationals/)
He appears to be subtly conflating emergency accomodation with state housing more generally-as the circular lays out the entitlement to the latter is clearly laid out (e.g. you can’t rock up off the boat and get a free house)
Ah thr good old dogwhistling.
He is correct
Wow, so brave.
Yet they’re handing them out to refugees. Soft touch Ireland , dopey again.