Ruairí McKiernan tweetz:
Cherish the children?
Last night in Direct Provision…
A testimony from Knockalisheen centre on outskirts of Limerick. Similar happening all over Ireland. This must end.
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And all the homeless childers?
These children are homeless.
Winter Vomiting bug? Less of a clean up?
This has nothing to do with the rules around granting or rejecting asylum. How much does it cost the state to keep a person in direct provision for 5 years,and how can a person who gets granted asylum after such time be capable of contributing to society, hold a steady job, pay taxes, raises a family etc.
Send the people home who should be sent home, grant refugee status to those who should get it, and stop wasting millions. All that years in direct provision does is destroy peoples mental health, and make them less capable of contributing back to society if they do get granted asylum.
We need to streamline the process, and as Eoin says, if you aren’t granted asylum – get deported (max of one appeal).
The people who spend years in Direct Provision are there because they keep appealing, and appealing, and appealing.
away with your facts, we only want emotion, raw weepy emotion.
this is post truth.
A story about the mother of a sick child being refused bread, and the usual sociopaths line up to argue they should be deported.
How very Trumpf.
What are your proposals for our immigration process? The ONLY reason people are in DP for so long is they have been refused refugee status several times and they continue to be allowed leave to appeal.
The appeals should stop after one.
The ‘sociopaths’ as you call them want a fair process for REAL refugees who are been undone by bogus asylum seekers.
Your stupid,immature comment helps nobody
I don’t care
If they are in one of these loathsome Direct Provision hell holes, they are in the appeals process, perfect or not. They are entitled to be treated as human beings. I will not be silent while a child is abused in this way by a system that I pay for.
Fupp you and your accusations of stupidity and immaturity. Ladyparts just like you probably defended the Magdelenes back in the day.
I did not use the words fupp or ladyparts. I’m sure you can fill in the blanks yourself.
Name calling, not address the point of the comment, rinse repeat! These ‘discussions’ are fantastic! There was a Trump ref too, textbook!
No I actually argued to change and speed up the process so as not to treat people like animals, and waste millions in the process.
I specifically said this has nothing to do with the actual asylum rules.
If anything, if we had looser asylum rules and an efficient direct provision system, it would still cost the country less while deporting less people.
Maybe its a case if food items can cause reactions and certain allergies can kill
So imagine if the child had an allergies and the food item was given which brought on a seizure or killed the child
I would say mummy and daddy would sue the centre and the press would have a field day
Anyway when you have a food bug the child would throw up the food given
What is it with trump?
if you think that the cruelty is not intended, i have news for you
Why would it end when you have centre owners making a fine load of money keeping these people like trophies?
And yet the street mantra from the high horse society is that these people get everything paid for them. The old myth of discarding new buggies and prams at bus stops has trundled on for years, nearly two generations now I heard the same bull from. And yet this is the reality, they can’t even get a slice of bread.
That’s the same place we kept the Hungarian refugees in 1956. Back then they stayed in wooden huts behind barbed wire and people came out from Limerick to look at them. There’s progress but not really enough.
A sad, grim state of affairs.
Maybe instead of tweeting about it, Ruairi could, ya know, do something about it. After all, Michael D Higgins appointed him to the Council of State. Surely there’s a conversation to be had there?
I have a suggestion. Every direct provision centre should have one politician living there, chosen by random ballot.
By the way, anyone who refuses a little comforting food to a sick child is… I have no words.
I see the usual right wingnuts on here with their disgusting comments. This was a sick child who simply needed a bit of comfort, if the wingnuts could look beyond their own narrow prism and see people in direct provision as human beings perhaps things might change. I predict that in the not too distant future there will be a tribunal or commission of inquiry looking back at this disgraceful system and everyone will be asking how we coud have allowed it to happen.