For the amount of us that go to Australia I don’t understand how the concept of ensuring migrants contribute to our country is so strange
wrghf on
What a shocker; common sense policy approaches to an issue. Imagine that.
Immigration should always be to the absolute benefit of the host country. Wherever there is latitude to do so the state should adopt an extremely stringent immigration policy that sees only the best educated, skilled and genuine immigrants being permitted entry.
JohnHammond94 on
Like working in healthcare, social care, child care, and the service industry? Oh wait, that’s happening already
Freebee5 on
I mean, the sub text of that statement is that past migration hasn’t benefited the Irish, right?
BakeParty5648 on
Importing an underclass to work for cheap and inflate property prices benefits plenty of Irish. Why else would we allow it at this scale? If you’re older, established, own assets, it’s making you wealthy.
Quiet-Geologist-6645 on
Having new build estates 95% occupied by the desi community does benefit Irish people? It keeps house prices going up up and up. Good for developers and great for the awl pension!
Soft-Affect-8327 on
I’m mildly grossed out, but if it’s this or Molotovs then fine, go for it.
FatFingersOops on
Too much of a good thing is a bad thing. There is no problem with immigration or the vast majority of immigrants but there is a problem with too much immigration. And we have had too much immigration too fast particularly as we are unable to provide housing for the people who are already here.
ehwhatacunt on
That’s a nonsense way to word it. Immigration should benefit society – every wonderful person who contributes regardless of nationality.
such_is_lyf on
I wonder in whose pockets that €2 billion spend is going. Hmm, that’s a toughy. Definitely not all those kindly property owners squashing people in warehouses and repurposing local hotels to fill with bunk beds for a measly couple million or more. Definitely not those catering contractors charging millions to give them nuggets and chips every night. Certainly not the private security contractors sending underpaid, untrained people in to manage it. A chunk most definitely did not go to Castle Stage Hire to erect fencing all along our beautiful Grand Canal all spring and summer last year. At least there was still some money left over to charter near empty flights for a photo op.
The immigrants themselves are only a small piece of that budget. The majority of it is profiteering from a crisis of the government’s own creation that they have no intention of solving. The draft paper stating the obvious has been written for the appearance of doing something when in reality, the immigration crisis is the best thing to happen to FFG in recent years as it has successfully divided and distracted people away from its real source and the real source of all our issues: FFG
xCreampye69x on
‘Irish’ is again a fallacy. It is a question of class, not race or nationality.
Ask instead, which class does mass migration benefit?
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Is this not common sense?
For the amount of us that go to Australia I don’t understand how the concept of ensuring migrants contribute to our country is so strange
What a shocker; common sense policy approaches to an issue. Imagine that.
Immigration should always be to the absolute benefit of the host country. Wherever there is latitude to do so the state should adopt an extremely stringent immigration policy that sees only the best educated, skilled and genuine immigrants being permitted entry.
Like working in healthcare, social care, child care, and the service industry? Oh wait, that’s happening already
I mean, the sub text of that statement is that past migration hasn’t benefited the Irish, right?
Importing an underclass to work for cheap and inflate property prices benefits plenty of Irish. Why else would we allow it at this scale? If you’re older, established, own assets, it’s making you wealthy.
Having new build estates 95% occupied by the desi community does benefit Irish people? It keeps house prices going up up and up. Good for developers and great for the awl pension!
I’m mildly grossed out, but if it’s this or Molotovs then fine, go for it.
Too much of a good thing is a bad thing. There is no problem with immigration or the vast majority of immigrants but there is a problem with too much immigration. And we have had too much immigration too fast particularly as we are unable to provide housing for the people who are already here.
That’s a nonsense way to word it. Immigration should benefit society – every wonderful person who contributes regardless of nationality.
I wonder in whose pockets that €2 billion spend is going. Hmm, that’s a toughy. Definitely not all those kindly property owners squashing people in warehouses and repurposing local hotels to fill with bunk beds for a measly couple million or more. Definitely not those catering contractors charging millions to give them nuggets and chips every night. Certainly not the private security contractors sending underpaid, untrained people in to manage it. A chunk most definitely did not go to Castle Stage Hire to erect fencing all along our beautiful Grand Canal all spring and summer last year. At least there was still some money left over to charter near empty flights for a photo op.
The immigrants themselves are only a small piece of that budget. The majority of it is profiteering from a crisis of the government’s own creation that they have no intention of solving. The draft paper stating the obvious has been written for the appearance of doing something when in reality, the immigration crisis is the best thing to happen to FFG in recent years as it has successfully divided and distracted people away from its real source and the real source of all our issues: FFG
‘Irish’ is again a fallacy. It is a question of class, not race or nationality.
Ask instead, which class does mass migration benefit?