I’ve no problem with countries taking in refugees in a controlled fashion. In fact most things in life ought to be carried out with some sort of control and strategic plan, be it business, sport or government.
This government, including the EU have zero control or plan in place for the refugee influx. The government were also out of control during the covid “crisis” and are persistently out of control on the housing and health sectors.
There was a time during the ahern, haughey and Reynolds eras when we had very clever civil servants and advisors, I’m sure clever civil servants are still around but appear to be gagged, SIPO is a prime example of government fudge.
All I have heard all week is that we are entering a “crisis” now that most asylum hotels won’t be renewing contracts due to the pending tourist season. One top guy for a charity organisation on the radio yesterday suggested we convert industrial units into provision centres, so moving refugees into industrial estates is his solution? That’s some integration policy isn’t it?
This issue started almost a year ago now. Of the 70k asylum seekers you would think that a good percentage of the able bodied men are capable of building things? Why wasn’t this looked into over the last year and some sort of self build accommodation thought out?
I work in the construction industry and when companies go headlong into jobs without a thought out plan well in advance of commencement then 9 out of 10 times they end up bust. The immigration model is well bust in my opinion.
One last thing on this, sanctimonious shit aside, the radio silence from the Catholic Church is interesting. I don’t have exact numbers but I believe we have about 2500 catholic priests in the country and just over 1000 parishes. Again I can’t verify if this equates to 1000 fully habitable rectorys (many of which are fairy large in size, particularly in large and salubrious city surburbs). Assuming we have 700 or 800 priest homes along with adjacent lands wouldn’t that level of readily available accommodation allow for an easy and quick solution (in part) plus it would lend itself to a fair and equal share where we are “all in this together” so to speak, where a better level of integration will be availed of and all communities in the land will be chipping in. I’m sure the existing priests can downsize elsewhere within their communities.
Some of our resident Protestants might have the numbers on their available accommodation also. …
