Direct Provision [Updated]

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THis morning.

Dublin Castle. Dublin 2.

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This morning.

Via RTE News:

Deliberations at today’s Cabinet meeting are expected to be dominated by the question of how best to provide assistance to refugees arriving from Ukraine.

It is believed Minister for Public Expenditure Michael McGrath will tell colleagues that the projected cost of helping Ukrainians next year is €3 billion, up from a €2.5 billion estimate in March.

Latest figures show that 25,173 Ukrainian refugees have arrived in Ireland.

Of that number, 16,788 have been provided with accommodation by the State. However, it is expected around 33,000 Ukrainian refugees will have arrived by the end of next month.

Projected cost of €3bn to help Ukrainian refugees next year (RTE)

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40 thoughts on “Direct Provision [Updated]”

    1. Kin

      The chickens coming home to roost
      And it’s proper order FF/FG / greens are the ones that have to deal with it
      Maybe all TDS senators house them to set an example

    2. Kin

      And listening to prime time we see that the Irish government has not one clue
      But we now hear a modular home will cost just slightly less than a home built by traditional means even though it’s put in within a week
      Who are they kidding ?
      It’s a complete farce

  2. GiggidyGoo

    Each and every TD should be hammered with the obvious question as to why so little has been done over decades for Irish citizens as regards housing, if a sudden leap to action like this is capable of being done. And don’t be fobbed off by vague non-answers.

    1. Rob_G

      It’s almost as if people fleeing for their lives from artillery barrages have more urgent needs than people forced to live a while longer in houseshares or their ma’s gaff

      1. Chris

        You lack the basic empathy to have concern for fellow citizens sleeping on streets. I pity you.

      2. SOQ

        All homeless live in house shares or in their ma’s gaffs is it? How many people are trying to rear a family in hotel bedrooms?

        You clearly don’t understand the impact this housing crisis has had on Irish society if you think that. An entire generation have been locked out of the housing market and now, it is only going to get worse.

      3. The Millie Obnoxious™

        You’ll find that people are capable of being sympathetic to the Ukrainian people who are coming to Ireland as well as being rightfully pissed that the government actively ignored measures that would ease the housing crisis in this country.

        As per usual though, it seems the concern at Leinster House is on how things look from the outside looking in, not on the reality of an crisis which has grown steadily worse over the past decade, which has been enabled by the inaction of successive governments.

        And it’s a lazy stereotype to pigeonhole the housing crisis to people reliant on social welfare or social housing. It goes well beyond that now, as anyone trying to rent or buy will tell you.

      4. GiggidyGoo

        Ian – the question isn’t about the urgency of accommodation for any particular group. The question is why this can be suddenly possible when it hasn’t been possible previously for Irish citizens – or other refugees currently in direct provision for years.

        2. SOQ

          Yes it also somewhat turns the whole racist slur on its head.

          Anyone who questioned the previous influx of immigrants was branded a racist, but now that white Europeans are to get priority over said black people, it must be hard to know who to fling the woke labels at.

      5. Kin

        Strange the same urgency was not used with Arabs Africans as they endured the same
        Is it a case a Russian bullet is more inhumane or any non white catholic endures more suffering than the non white human beings fleeing even worse

    2. Kin

      Giggly I would cattle prod them rather than grill them to explain themselves
      The fact accommodation is now so important is the EU have ordered Ireland into accepting between 100 thousand to 200 thousand
      We are 5 million people
      France is near on 70 million and are only taking in 100 thousand

  4. Chris

    Spoiler alert. The name of the game is insolvency. Rack up the national debt to the point where it becomes untenable – then confiscate all private property.

      1. Kin

        Scottster in the last crash we were landed with sovereign debt to bail out banks and cover the cost of developers dumping their debt on the general public
        What will happen is pretty much like the same as the crash
        People that can lo longer pay their mortgages will loose their homes and the assets sold by banks to massive property funds for a fraction of the price the poor sap paid for it
        It’s a win win for our new landlords and the banks
        The poor Irish sap will be left with the worry and a yolk of a debt around their neck
        And boy if they cannot get it off you when you live the courts will take it out of your estate when you die

    2. Kin

      Chris spot on
      That’s why we have the cooktoo funds
      Irelands model under the British empire is the model the EU have adopted
      No one owns property just is a tenant
      As the new care system for the old that owned houses when they die in the fair deal system their assets are sold to pay the bill when they are dead
      I suppose our generation will be the last to own a home
      Get ready for interest rates to shoot up and quite a few evictions

  5. SOQ

    Setting up a two tier welfare system- especially where the privileged group are non nationals- is going to create the mother of all xenophobic blow backs. It is not just about homeless vs refuges, it impacts every single young person or couple who cannot afford to buy even the most modest of homes.

    And watch as the rent prices sky rocket even more when demand completely outstrips supply. Young people will leave in their doves because those refugees will have no intention of leaving- why would they? The real winners here are going to be the vulture funds who are now going to have full tenancies at their already extortionate rents.

    Absolutely insane.

    2. scottser

      the ukranian refugees i have spoken to all want to go home as quickly as possible because they don’t know what’s happening with their families and friends, don’t speak the language, don’t know anyone.
      have you spoken to any ukranians yet soq?

        1. SOQ

          Funny but one of the guys I know arrived in Cavan without a word of English. So he learned to speak English with a Cavan accent. It is a VERY strange mixture- quite funny.

          There is quite a large Ukrainian community already here, near all illegal. Mainly manual workers in the agri industry from what I can see, and as per usual, exploited to the hilt.

          2. Janet, dreams of an alternate universe

            ah gigs I have had plenty of heated arguments through Google translate with my last landlord never mind a conversation

          3. GiggidyGoo

            Ah yes, Janet – but you communicated with him/her through text, not speech (unless you got to the speaking stage)

      2. SOQ

        Yes I know two who have been here for years- they are left wing activists who were ran out of the place- they have a very different take on things and are most definately not fans of the coke head puppet.

        Of course the first thing people who have been forced out of their homeland will do is want to return, especially where there are language barriers- that is perfectly normal. But return to what? It will take years to rebuild what has been destroyed and in the mean time, children become part of where they are.

        I am not blaming these poor people- at all. I am however questioning the mismanagement by our own government and why they are accepting so many without consideration for the resources needed to accommodate them.

    3. Kin

      And SOQ
      It’s impossible to access the refugees through the Red Cross to give them a job
      I tried as a small company needing restuarant staff
      The hoops and jigs required just turned me off
      So maybe ask that these refugees should be able to support themselves

      1. Daisy Chainsaw

        Have you tried offering a decent wage and working conditions to people living here before attempting to exploit refugees?

  6. Dave

    What a pity Michael McGrath and his cronies in ff/fg didn’t put as much effort into housing the Irish young families who have been screaming out for houses in the last few years, and before the texts goes berserk, I do have sympathy for the Ukrainian people

    1. Kin

      Dave fact is our EU masters have told our KAPOs to take them in
      We have plenty of fields to pitch tents

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