Taoiseach Micheál Martin at Arbour Hill yesterday
This morning.
Via Irish Times:
There are acute concerns in Government about capacity to house Ukrainian refugees, with the available supply of hotel and B&B places almost exhausted.
While senior officials said facilities such as large halls with camp beds and tents were unlikely to be required before Easter, sources were unwilling to rule them out beyond that.
A scramble for additional sources of accommodation is under way across all arms of government and local authorities, with an emergency summit of the construction and property industry due to be held on Monday by Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien.
Fears grow in Government about Irish capacity to house Ukrainian refugees (Irish Times)
Meanwhile…
…via Irish Examiner:
In terms of the influx of Ukrainian people fleeing the war, Taoiseach Micheál Martinsaid it is going to become extremely challenging because over 20,000 people have come into the country in a matter of weeks.
He said such an influx is unprecedented in terms of anything we have experienced before in relation to refugees fleeing a conflict zone and a war.
Asked about people living in large communal halls, he said the number of public pledges of help “is not as large as originally anticipated”
We have to move fast in terms of going through all the pledges for example, not all of them have been processed or gone through and there’s some opportunities there.
Number of Irish pledges to house refugees ‘not as large as originally anticipated’ (Irish Examiner)
It’s almost as if they didn’t realize we had a housing emergency.
so true
It’s rather depressing alright.
It’s like the homeless people or those who are facing homelessness are invisible and worthless.
What is even worse is the utterly cynical way any attempt to highlight has lead to certain people being labelled as anything from cruel and without sympathy to being racist and xenophobic.
We see them, we see the conditions in direct provision, we see the ‘food’ served to those people, we see the mental health conditions they experience. The absolute neck of those who said zero about direct provision now jumping on the Ukraine refugee bandwagon is both a sight to behold and completely expected.
In all honesty it was always going to be tented cities for them
Meanwhile mehole and company continue to strut around the world giants in the world of leprechaun’s
Was it ever going to be different and now we will have up to 100 thousand by the end of the year
They cannot even house our own people
They all probably watched this TikTok…
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLXVPRbS/
Good man Mehole. Blame everyone but the government.
But you promised …..
But was there ever so many offers?
Or just made up propaganda to embarrass the brits
Maybe it’s time the Red Cross came clean
Oh there were lots of offers.
But many were from Roscommon and even Ukranian refugees who fled with only the clothes on their back say they’re not THAT desperate …
Oh there were lots of offers.
But many were from Roscommon and even Ukranian refugees who fled with only the clothes on their back say they’re not THAT desperate.
Followed by I wish we’d gone where that nice Mr Boris is in power …
Roscommon is a paradise compared to whatever two bit pothole you are resident in
If he was in any way a leader he’d fire Robert Watt
In terms of poo talking. Martin is No#1.v
The pledgling Taoiseach
Glass Bottle Site-has been controlled for over a ten years by FFG/NAMA without building so much as one home,god help these poor homeless war refugees,cause FFG simply can not create the conditions to build housing,nor can they manage a building project,how’s that hospital coming along…..
Never mind broadband,they are sleep walking into yet another crisis.
over-eager for pats on the back from EU leaders, he’s taken on too much, and now is saying it’s our fault for not offering up enough of our homes to them, ie. doing the governments job for them.
People can’t afford the bills to run their homes, does he think we’ll suddenly be able to cover the bills for the refugees we take in also? Just all completely ill-thought out. Took on too much without assessing our ability to follow thru. Bad leadership.
Good points. Bad leadership indeed.
They relied too much on the generosity of regular people.
Of course people made an emotional response initially and then as the cold hard facts started to dawn on them, their minds changed. Don’t blame them really.
As an aside, there were lots of people critiquing the UK for not taking as many Ukrainians as we were hoping to, I hope people look back on that and realise how pragmatic the UK’s position was and how wrong they were to criticise them.
see, what tripped up our gov. was that they were looking to dump the problem they signed up for onto the public. But with this, it was the publics decision. Usually they dump problems on to us where we don’t have a say (eg. bank bailout).
The UK have to be more careful, as they are a prime target for Russia and they would defo sneak spies in amongst the refugees, and probs have already.
Micko – immigration whether legal or illegal is a comparatively new phenomenon for Ireland.
Blighty has become rather more used to it over the years hence Brexit.
As the Irish media and politicians strutted around like justling bantam cocks with their virtue signalling and comparions between the UK and Ireland’s response some wiser voices, including mine on here, were quietly asking the obvious question – what do you do with them when they’re here in their tens if not hundreds of thousands ?
Mark my words, the oncoming freight train from Disaster Junction is beginning to pick up a head of steam …
We are just going to ship them over to Britain