A new total of 107 homeless asylum seeker tents are now lining the bank of the Grand Canal in Dublin.
Last Thursday, the figure was only 76, representing an increase of 31 tents in just four days.
“I didn’t say that wouldn’t happen again”: The number of migrant tents on the bank of Dublin’s Grand Canal has risen again to 76 – and Taoiseach Simon Harris says he never denied that the illegal shantytown could re-appear after it was cleared.https://t.co/MhKAPyAPFs
— gript (@griptmedia) May 16, 2024
Speaking to reporters in Dublin about the matter today, Integration Minister Roderic O’Gorman said that his Department was moving to try and provide better State accommodation for those asylum seekers who were currently sleeping rough.
“In terms of providing accommodation for those who are currently unaccommodated, my Department has been working hard over the last week, and we will have additional capacity available across this week,” he said.
“We will be working hard with other government agencies to ensure we can provide offers to those currently sleeping rough on the Grand Canal.”
The Minister was also asked about statements made last week by Fianna Fáil Finance Minister Michael McGrath, who was reported to have said in a party meeting last week that Ireland could see between 26,000 and 30,000 asylum applications this year alone.
Alarm is reported to have been expressed at the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party tonight, during a lengthy discussion on migration, after TDs and Senators were warned that there could be between 26,000 to 30,000 asylum applications this yearhttps://t.co/CVz1c7fFvc
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) May 15, 2024
O’Gorman said that the 30,000 figure was unlikely, but that his own Department was still projecting a very high figure of 22,000.
He said that McGrath’s projections were based on “one particularly high week”, but that “those numbers haven’t been replicated subsequently.”
“When you look across the first four and a half months of this year, we estimate there will be around 22,000 people seeking international protection this year,” he said.
“That’s a significant jump on the 13,000 who sought accommodation last year.”
Integration Minister Roderic O'Gorman says his Department is projecting around 22,000 asylum seekers arriving in Ireland this year – a dramatic increase on the 13,000 that arrived last year. pic.twitter.com/FrVtBuPZNw
— gript (@griptmedia) May 20, 2024
However, he added: “…our comprehensive accommodation strategy is designed with those sorts of numbers in mind.”
Notably, the Department’s new asylum seeker accommodation strategy published at the end of March says it aims to “scale up” the country’s capacity to be able to accommodate “up to 35,000” asylum seekers “by the end of 2028.”
However, it says that this is “assuming that an average of 13,000-16,000 persons arrive between 2024 and 2028.”
That means that if 22,000 asylum seekers were to arrive this year as the Department projects, that would be 6,000 asylum seekers higher than the upper end of the annual average the government was preparing to accommodate.
For scale, in the year before Covid, Ireland’s asylum seeker intake was just 4,781 in 2019.
O'Gorman confirms here that the Irish government are anticipating as many as 16,000 new asylum seekers coming here every year on average over the next 4 years.
For a sense of scale, in the years before Covid, Ireland's intake was as follows:
2019: 4,781
2018: 3,673
2017: 2,926 https://t.co/6PmwdroYwm— Ben Scallan 🇮🇪 (@Ben_Scallan) March 27, 2024
What a way to destroy your own people and country. Never invited the Irish to return to promises of own door key homes, phones, cash and grants! Nor invited the many Irish homeless in UK back to Ireland for same. No, but invited men of illegal standing so he could pile them into our towns and villages without any care for national security!
We are talking about life and death here. Would you really be happy to see these poor people perish in famine and war instead of allowing them to be in tents on the banks of the Grand canal. Have some decency.
How many of these people have actually come from areas with severe famine or war? If they had, why would they get rid of any documentation before arrival that proves where they have come from?
There has always been wars, always been famines. There has not always been an all quering religion called islam.
Ahmed the troll.
Save your energies for more worthwhile comments.
I made the mistake of making counterpoints to some of his comments.
What’s wrong with Russia? China? Qatar? Saudi? Bahrain? UAE? Oh yeah immigrants and in particular illegal immigrants are not welcome! Is that not racist? South Africa are cracking down on illegal immigration but no one called them racist. Seems only whites can be racist.
Would you stop all these men were living in France and UK they are flee nothing ireland is being used as back door to UK for asylum seekers who were refused in UK claim asylum here get a new Irish passport they can live in UK 99 percent these men are economic migrants
I think your looking your throat slit dr Ahmed you filthy scum
What famine, what war?
you have more rights as a refugee than Irish person in i Ireland, absolutely shocking what’s going on,Mary Lou needs to step aside and sinn Fein needs to grab this bolted horse of immigration issue and sort it out , FF/fg/g are selling this country out.👍
All I can say at this point is that I’m really looking forward to the Elections Now!!! Vote The Irish Freedom Party & The National Party to save what is now left of our Irish culture and country 🇮🇪
The majority of the Irish people want to do what is decent and humane, hence the reason why ‘The Freedom Party’s & The National Party will NEVER EVER secure a single Daily seat. Reflect on what you are advocating for. We need to be progressive, diverse and inclusive. The economy and country will benefit in the long-run from the energy and vitality these people bring.
That is the most Woke far-left mentality I have ever heard. Have you not noticed that NO indigenous Irish person has a name like yours? Also, this is a Christian country, not an Islamic one. I’m standing with my own here. If you don’t like it, then tough luck!
Lol would you ever just do one…
20 years ago SF had only one TD and look at them now.
We’ll benefit, just like Germany France and Sweden. Most of their Muslim imigrants don’t work and it’s generational. Sweden is being swamped by Muslim gang crime.
What are the most detestable words in the English language now? PROGRESSIVE, DIVERSE, INCLUSIVE, MULTICULTURAL, words abused/used by the woke brigrade of self-serving politicians, ngos and greedy globalists. I think that Dr AAAA is either a plant or a devils advocate. See you at the mosque.
all I can say this is what the magority of Irish want , they voted for this government,last Saturday or Sunday they had a mass protest for gazza folk , no protests about this ,polls shows FF,/fg,/g on nearly 50%, basically Ireland is fecked, As a proud sinn Fein supporter I am shocked this is happening to our country, sinn Fein needs to get off the ladies suits and back on with working man’s clothes rolls the sleeves up and back to 80s sinn Fein.💚💚💚
They’ll obliterate this country.
It’ll be 1000 times worse than Sweden.
These politicians are vermin.
In 10 yrs time when all these new comers start voting and running in our elections, they’ll quickly dictate and change the laws of this land to suite them. Just like in the UK, alla snackbar will be shouted by the newly elected and that will be check mate.
It’s already happening
How many deportations does the department of justice project to carry out this year ? How many border detentions does it expect to make ?
If those are the projected figures from O’Gorman , what are our so called department of justice doing to put a stop to this & protect the country? Where are there projections & targets ?
What are they doing to investigate & clamp down on the so called NGO’s that are in effect a front for people trafficking ?
Oh wait , I forgot , this is all intentional & our so called government is actively aiming to hit these “targets “ & is working hand in glove with their criminal “business partners “ as they call them in the NGO’s.
30,000 Doctors?
That’s 15,000 tents!!!!
We’re going to need a bigger canal!
Yikes!
The worst thing about this fucking article is O’Gormless’ total lack of understanding of how an economy works. There is no limit to immigration and fuck the negative impact on housing, health and education resources for indigenous people. His sole concern is housing who ever the fuck comes. No thought for the needs of indigenous people or whether we can absorb this demand? The only fucking thing he keeps saying is legal obligations and house them! I mean what the actual fuck use is this gobshite!! He thinks he’s running an NGO. If he is ever elected again I’m going to eat my own shite!! How the fuck did this gobshite get this job!! What the fuck!!!!! Aaaaasahhhhhh! Beam me the fuck up scotty!!! And I haven’t even mentioned the catastrophic cultural tsunami ripping apart the very fabric of our country… I better stop I’m going to give me self a fucking heart attack!
As I mentioned previously, I am an octogenarian, and if my younger men and women Irish folk cannot stop and reverse this madness, I will be happy to meet my maker sooner rather than later.
Clearly double standards for Irish citizens and these often undocumented economic migrants. If the homeless Irish were to set up tents along the well manicured grass verges of the sidewalks of politicians in South Dublin they would be speedily removed.
to keep the poem goin’
no one has a clue what to do:
Gerry Rafferty – Baker Street (Live TV) – YouTube
The invaders are here. Rout them and send them home to think again.
The English called the Irish THICK MICK’S this fucking government is proving hem correct. Fucking traitors
These are human beings. As a wealthy country, we must do so much more and so much better. As a country, we are all a disgrace and should be ashamed of ourselves.
F off back to ur one f’n country. Cummin in hear tellin us of.
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Seriously, you have a anger issues, and I refuse to reply to an abusive lunatic. Get help brother
No need to reply nor keep writing..
I agree, it’s inhuman to leave them in tents along the canal, I’m sure we can stump for economy plane tickets back home for them.
They deserve a chance. They are literally the future. They will be building our roads, caring for our elderly, staffing our shops, driving our taxis, paying their taxes. They bring so much culture and diversity. The only thing we should all hate is hate itself. Let’s all live in peace together as one big family. All are welcome.
Haha now I know you are definitely on the windup.
they are the future because of abortionist philosophy. But i don’t want an excuse for this Buddah yoke to come back in here…
Did you ever notice dr Ahmed pals find jobs as barbers internet cafes burger shops and hey presto no receipts they only deal in cash send revenue into all of there dumps
You cannot welcome people into a home that’s not yours.
The problem lies with a tone-deaf, causal government. The illegals are just the effect.
Well you’re free to speak for yourself on that front.
Incidentally, Dr Ahmed ….. where was Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer when the Iranian President’s helicopter encountered foggy conditions there at the weekend (you know the lyrics of that much loved Christmas song (“Christmas” – the coming of Jesus Christ, you know) – “Then one foggy Christmas night ……”) ?
Please explain why the wealthiest Muslim countries that are close to Syria, Yemen, Gaza, Afghanistan, Pakistan and others, who share the same religion and similar culture are not welcoming these migrants. Why are Gulf States like Dubai happy to exploit workers on low wages from these countries and then send them packing when the projects are completed? This does not look like being neighbourly.
We, we…who’s we?
Ashamed of what?
Irish people thinking of the local people who are being railroaded into the destruction of their whole culture, and economy, for what hidden reason?
People are neither stupid or blind.
Huge wealth in Gulf states whose traditions are similar to many migrants flooding Ireland,so
why are they not taking in migrants like themselves?
Why does your country of origin not take in migrants?
I wonder why?
Which country are you from BTW…?
Can we have you address Dr rag bag see how fast a fire engine 🚒 can get to your house 🏠
Give the illegals your house. Set an example.