A meeting of Mayo County Council has unanimously passed a motion calling on its staff to “immediately” cease all cooperation with Department of Integration, until an agreed strategy is in place regarding the housing of migrants seeking asylum in the county.
At yesterday’s meeting of the Council a cross-party motion which stated that ‘all co-operation ceases immediately, between the staff of Mayo County Council and the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth of Ireland, until such time as an agreed strategy is put in place to properly co-ordinate the provision of additional services for the communities hosting refugees and international protection applicants’, was approved.
Proposing the motion, Castlebar-based Independent councillor, Michael Kilcoyne, said councillors had no say in who arrives in Mayo or where they stayed – and claimed that those claiming asylum were being treated better than Irish people. It was time Irish people started to come first, he said, according to Mayo News.
“These are serious issues, and we are doing our best to resolve these issues, and to a certain extent we don’t know what is happening. We are not told what is happening until the last minute. Sometimes we are not told until it happens. We are extremely concerned, and that is why we are bringing forward this motion to try and make some progress on it. At the end of the day, we don’t have a say – if we had things would be different,” he said.
Fine Gael councillor Peter Flynn also proposed an amendment, again carried by the Council members, which said:
‘Mayo County Council requests the Irish Government to revoke the European Union (Planning and Development) (Displaced Persons from Ukraine Temporary Protection) Regulations 2022’ and that ‘Mayo County Council encourages government to utilise lands where planning permission has been granted but no works have taken place to erect modular or prefabricated housing for the accommodation needs of refugees fleeing wars and Irish people requiring affordable accommodation’.
He said that ‘faceless speculators’ who ‘do not give a damn’ about communities were seizing the opportunity to make large profits, Mayo News said.
Protests were held at the weekend by local people over the possibility of erecting modular homes at Castlemacgarrett near Claremorris, Cllr Flynn said., adding that he would join people protesting if plans for migrant centres went against the wishes of the community.
“It is breaking down the fabric of Irish society,” he said. “People are concerned and don’t want to see single males outside our schools and around creches and around our parks where they go for walks and don’t feel safe. You only have to think about other areas where these problems have arisen, and people are aware of these problems.
“The whole country is sick with what is going on and as far as I am concerned enough is enough. I understand the concerns of the people, and we echo the concerns of the people. We are going to protest at the venues and make our voice heard for the people. If we make enemies from that, that is good, because we have stood up for something in our lives.”
Fianna Fáil councillor Damien Ryan, who seconded the primary motion, was sharply critical of what he saw as the Department’s lack of communication and collaboration.
“As a county we have played our part and the absence of a strategy has created a problem nationwide and not just in this county. A strategy is needed and needed very quickly, and the department can roll it out quickly,” he said, criticising the department’s lack of communication and collaboration,”
He said the poor communication would lead to discourse where refugees were being blamed for the flaws in government strategy.
Other Councillors argued that Mayo had taken more than its fair share in contrast to other counties and that the services were not there to support new arrivals and the existing population.
Fine Gael councillor Ger Deere urged against misinformation, saying: “There is an awful lot of misinformation out there and an awful lot of misinformation here today, and it is naturally creating a degree of fear and anxiety. There has to be a proper communication strategy… There is an onus on the Government to do that,” he said.
Mayo News said:
Kevin Kelly, Chief Executive of Mayo County Council told the meeting that the reason there were a lot of refugees arriving into Mayo was because property was being made available to house them. He added that when it comes to government policy he does not have the leeway to ignore it, but he said he would forward the motion to the relevant government minister.
Last November, the County Council heard that Mayo has taken in 5,304 refugees, which is just short of 4% of the county’s population, since March 2022, while the national average was 2.27% at that time.
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The only strategy is a complete cessation of illegal immigration in Ireland.
And mass deportations.
Correct, forgot about that. At least the farmers alliance party is up and running now just in time for the next election. We have some hope provided they dont make the same mistake as sinn fein with having not enough candidates. Not advocating for sinn fein btw, they are no different from the current lot.
Yes, enforced mass deportations are equally as important to solving the crisis.
ENFORCED! Key word there. Good man.
You need to at least stop giving citizenship to people who arrive as asylum seekers and are granted refugee status — historically, this status was temporary, designed to provide a safe haven until the person could return (or be sent back) to their country of origin — only in the last couple of decades has the asylum system morphed into a scam for the mass migration of economic migrants, huge numbers of whom live permanently in the countries that granted them asylum.
Alan Shatter
They can be revoked, surely?
And a sharp cutback in legal immigration.
Very true. I know a few of the legals and I will use one example. He came from india to do an average job here. Back home he owns hectors of land, 5 houses and has workers who do the crops on the land. Loaded he is and he is here. Another one for you, instead of donnelly paying nurses properly, he is bringing cheap labor from india. Now in my view nursing is a calling and the skills of a nurse with that calling have a far higher standard of personal care than someone who is looking for a visa opportunity. Its just facts.
Irish Gov are making it hard for trained and experienced Irish nurses who want to return from US or Canada. The Irish nursing assoc. won’t recognize their qualifications, force them to do an online application for €300, state they have to do further training / course costing €3,000 in certain hospitals (none of the hospitals are named online and no hospital is aware of this training / Course). In the end the Irish highly trained and experienced nurses left Ireland and returned to their adopted country, tired of the BS. A total loss for Ireland.
Its a hard reality alright and its just not right. Its done by design because the truth being told, they don’t want Irish people doing nursing which is why they changed nothing. They know the problems and they know the solutions, they just wont do it. It suits them for Irish nurses to leave. They want all Irish to leave in fact which is why we also have a housing crisis in the country. Its intentionally being done like everything else. Political parties currently elected in the dail are simply anti irish because they are being paid to be that way as they are in the rest of europe. They dont want national identity, they dont want sexual identity, they dont want cultural identity so the natural way is to drie the native population out which they hae being doing for the last 30 years.
its called ETHNIC CLEANSING, using discrimination against the Citizens of Ireland.
Did these nurses train in in the USA and Canada? They should be offered a free course to integrate them into the Irish system, having gained so much valuable experience abroad. An Bord Altranais should be delighted to welcome them back to Ireland instead of penalising them financially. It should be taken up with politicians, have it discussed in the Dáil. You will find Ukrainian ‘refugees’ do not have to put their hand in their pocket to pay for anything. All, including all education, is handed to them free, with enhanced benefits. They are welfare tourists who go ‘home’ on their holidays. What is happening to Irish nurses who want to return to work at home is a pure disgrace. They are being treated as aliens in their own country. Let us all vote this monster of an anti-Irish government out as soon as we get the chance.
And why do the government think it is ok to replace Irish nurses with those from third world countries which can ill afford to train them and where they are needed?
With 400m EU citizens can we not fill jobs? IMO the cost of -working and self financing versus being on benefits is not incentivising
It was only a few years ago when youth un-employment in Spain went over 50% for a period of time – it’s half that now which is still very high.
This isn’t about filling jobs or giving natives jobs.
It is still very high — even though Spain joined the EU way back in 1986, it is still a net recipient of annual aid from the EU — Germany has a per capita GDP that is 50% higher than the per capita GDP of Spain.
> illegal immigration
Sigh — I feel compelled to point out again that asylum seekers are not ‘illegal’ — in fact, it would be illegal, or found to be illegal by almost any court, to fail to give due consideration to all applications for asylum, pretty much regardless of how the applicant arrives.
But nearly all the migrants arriving in Ireland today are being sent, flown in (after all, Ireland is surrounded by water), by the EU as part of its migrant distribution agreement, to which obviously the current Irish government is a party.
You must demand that the Irish government address this specific issue, not only for the present, but perhaps more importantly, also for the near and distant future — clearly the current flow of large numbers of asylum seekers is completely unsustainable, and will demographically obliterate Ireland in the years ahead if not stopped — and there is no sign whatsoever that it will stop, so it must be the Irish government, acting in the interest of Ireland and the Irish people, that stops it.
Ideal would be a government like Orban leads in Hungary, one which would simply say ‘No!’ to asylum seekers, and to the EU, and then ignore decisions of EU courts about it — but you don’t have such a government right now.
But if people vote the right way we could indeed have an Orbanesque government!
We should not let them in across our border and then they cannot claim asylum. How can a country of 5 million people on a tiny island be compelled to make decisions on everyone from the large land masses of the world who decides to turn up here on an ad hoc basis because of the great benefits and great welcome plus accomodation that our government offers them, against the wishes of the Irish people, even if we were to reject all of them. Remember that our government has advertised for them in several languages, which has put the Irish people on the back foot. There is already massive revolt against it. Outrage everywhere. Think what it will be like in 20 years time. 20% of our population were not born here in the last census. More since. We were a subjugated people who only recently got our independence. No European country fought longer or harder than Ireland for its freedom. We never had colonies. We owe the world nothing. The Irish are shy and refuse to say they don’t want them. They only say we have not enough facilities to cope, which is a different matter. Speaking for myself, I don’t want them. We are giving out too many visas for unskilled workers in useless jobs too. Far too many fast food kips and deliveries in the dirty back bags that they bring home to their often overcrowded unhygienic accomodation at night. For every fast food place that opens up, we need more hospital beds because of the diseases they produce. Giving more citizenship to illegals instead of deporting them. If we had proper main party opposition, they’d have brought this government down long ago, but SF sat silent on immigration because they are a woke globalist open borders party. Look at all the men who are arriving from safe countries, but that same country is safe for the women. Anyone who agrees with that carry on is a fool. Wise up. We are also losing civil rights due to hate speech laws and the LGBT government agenda in the schools. Dumping the world on us and saying it’s their right is tyranny. I have never seen the country as bad as this before. They have turned Ireland into an immigration camp.
Yes, but there is no onus on Ireland to agree to be a part of the international asylum rules or conventions.
It is perfectly within its power to remove itself from them. Similarly with EU agreements – which in this case (sharing scheme) are voluntary.
We’re at a pont where the Irish govt. are acting in opposition to the declared will of the Irish people on the issue.
This declared will needs to be formalised beyond online complaints and polls. If the government persist beyond that point, it is perfectly legitimate to overthrow them by force – simply done, and without need for violence. The former govt. were aware of this back in 2007/2008 when several hundred thousand people filled Dublin from Christchurch, down both sides of the quays, O’Connell St., Westmoreland St., etc. (actually filled these areas simulataneously, O’Connell St. was already packed while the further end of the protest was still struggling to get down the hill from the top of Thomas St. to the river). Over half the country’s gardaí were put in Dublin to stop the march getting near the Dáil, but they could not have done this even if they tried – the poor gardaí were cowered against the buildings, outnumbered nearly a hundred to one, but the protest was peaceful and there was no animosity towards the gardaí (apart from a breakaway group of about thirty idiots from éirigí and some other sf splinters who went on uo to molesworth st. to throw bangers).
As stated, the Cowen/Lenihan pair (and junior coalition partners) were forced to call an election – had they failed to do so, there certainly would have been an actual physical overthrow of tne government, such was the rage that existed. Parties were demolished.
In this case, the demand should be for immigration and asylum-scam referendums.
The protest planned for february is half-arsed. To make these things work, there has to be widespread, cross-country organisation, meetings, posters, leafleting, transport etc. Should be done in March
Off shore asylum processing. Only successful step foot in ireland
End it altogether. Too large a part of the world is a mess and in sporadic upheavals (most of their problems are cultural, too – they bring the things that destabilise their societies with them).
The severity of a county council voting to cease corporation with a government department highlights the reckless nature of the Irish governments immigration actions.
Spirit of Michael Davitt lives on
All one has to do is look up HOME (Holistic Outlook on the Migration Emergency) facebook site to see how much the councillors cared last year on 9th Mayo 2023 when challenged about refugee/asylum immigration into Mayo.
They ran rather than answer any questions.
Now pre elections to use the common vernacular they are cacking in their pants.
My heart bleeds for them. Poor county councillors.
It is a very positive development.
Great, but not far enough.
Watch out for ff/fg/sf councillors pretending to agree with local sentiment here on this issue: No doubt some have been ‘licensed’ by Party chiefs to give a token degree of support to their constituents to diffuse protest, direct it into red herrings like ‘lack of servces’, and keep their positions and block alternative candidates at the elections.
End all ‘voluntary’ agreements with the EU to accept migrants arriving in the mediterranean and via the balkans. Put a legal obligatiin on airlines to scan and retain a copy of the passports of all passengers to be then provided to Irish immigration officials. Make it a legal obligation that all information barring the individual’s name be published publically. This is our state, we have the right to decide who comes in. Immediate refusal of entry to all from safe countries. Apply retrospectively and remove those here – no appeals, they either qualify or they don’t.
Tell the Ukranians – as Denmark has done – that their presence here is temporary, as was the original purport of the post WW2 refugee conventions. If most of Ukraine becomes safe, they’re not refugees – they are economic migrants.
Put referenda to the people on (a) to continue or desist with global ‘asylum’ agreements, given that has been abused by frauds numbering in excess of 90% of the total number of applicants since 1997,
(b) to establish the quantity of immigrants in Ireland relative to the existing population as a percentage over time, to be made legally binding.
If I bok an airline ticket, there is avrecord. If I check in and get a boarding pass there is a record. Before I board a plane tgere is a third check. If the plane crashes, the deceased are udentified. So why can passpirt control not identify??????
Anne the answer is yes they can check but the Irish government had chosen not too. Do you really believe all those passports are destroyed on the plane. They are in their pockets but once the scammer says he lost it on the plane than as far as the Irish government is concerned that’s the end of the matter.
Absolutely correct – the government is scamming and lying to the Irish people.
The Original Sinn of Mass Immigration into Ireland is that no national or rational debate on the topic ever took place a quarter of a century ago, or at least after the Citizenship Referendum.
Even now, there is no debate, because for a debate you need to have both sides of an issue represented. Opponents of Mass Immigration have been for 20 years muzzled on RTE, Newstalk etc. They are spoken of, not spoken to. Usually in slurs.
I believe the fundamental question which should have been addressed is an existential one:
Should Ireland survive as the homeland of the Irish people, or should it be a multiethnic society in which the ethnic Irish are just another group?
Maybe it’s not too late for that debate, but only if both sides get to express themselves.
No debate needed as it is the homeland of the Irish people, the homeland their ancestors fought and died for over many painful centuries. No going back on that hard fact. It is non-negotiable.
The current problem is asylum, and this is intimately connected with the membership of Ireland in the EU, as is intra-EU migration into Ireland, which is also important — immigration law in Ireland as it affects non-EU nationals is a separate matter, but that is also important since Ireland is a small country and it will not take long to demographically destroy it, regardless of how the migrants arrive.
The Mayo Co Council decison to cease all cooperation with the Dept of Integration is but empty virtue signaling.
The County Councils have proven irrelevant on matters of accommodation,planning permissions,fire safety certificate and other approval certificates They are ignored and bypassed by the Regime toadie facilitators.
To be a Fakeugee is to be an ‘untouchable’ in cases of Crime ,car tax and Insurance and a priorty when it comes to Welfare,Housing ,Health care,Dental care , Educational placements ,transport etc.
Councllors are late to the party and are concerned about the upcoming Local Elections.
The TD’S and their Leaders appear to be blase ,which is a concern. Is the fix in.?
This Human Trafficking racket is a financial scam,and only when the cost of providing accomodation becomes prohibitive ,will it be stopped.
Too Little Too Late.
They are just worried the local elections are coming up and as stated earlier this is virtuous posturing.
If they really want to show contempt for what the government are doing, then resign from their parties forthwith.
Run as independents
Exactly. They would resign from their parties. None did. It is just a show to get them through the local elections
Ballyhaunis..63% primary children non indigenous
Replacement.
Mayo County Council has unanimously passed a motion calling on council staff to cease co-operation with the Department of Integration over the housing of asylum seekers and refugees in the county.
The motion, which was endorsed by Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil councillors, says the non-co-operation should continue until an “agreed strategy is put in place to properly co-ordinate the provision of additional services for the communities hosting refugees and international protection applicants”.
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So they are not saying “NO”.
They just have the paw out
I would like to express my sincere gratitude and respect towards Stephen Kerr for his tireless and dedicated efforts.
Your right pat. Stephen is a real hero. A fearless man of principle.
“Kevin Kelly the chief executive on Mayo county council said he would forward the motion to the relevant government minister.” Does Mr. Kevin Kelly think that any government minister relevent or otherwise gives a flying fook about him or his county council.
You and your council colleagues have been taken advantage of by a ruthless bunch of traitors in Dail Eireann who used party discipline, threats blandishments and appeals to your better nature to get your co operation and assistance in destroying your county. You lot of useful idiots went along with it. Now you have finally woken up to the fact that you were conned. You can finally see what is happening to your county. The council election is six months away and it has finally dawned on you that the people you answer too are your voters not the ruthless people in government that wiped your eye.
You lot spent the last two years calling your own voters far right while assisting and facilitating the plantation of your home county.
You sowed the wind, now reap the whirlwind.
Send all illegals back to where they came from as a start. This government facilitated invasion of Ireland must be resisted by any means. It is always legitimate to defend your homeland.
Well done Mayo coco. About time our elected representatives represented us and not unelected supranational organisations.
Paul, I hate to point out the bleeding obvious but there is an election coming. I suspect that this fact has had some bearing on the change of viewpoint among the county councillors. They only have to get through that then they can revert to their old ways.
Yes. Thank them for their change of heart, but still vote them out.
most of these migrants are entering Ireland through the north coming from the UK it doesn’t take a magician to work that out certain tds should be taken out ex rodric leo Mary lou eamonn Ryan tris gannon and lots more
Wish my own country would do the same. Power in numbers.
My own county – silly autocorrect
A step in the right direction, however Ireland needs a complete cessation on immigration with immediate effect and mass deportations. We need a Govt which respects the will of the people, a govt for, by and of the people, not of the elite in Davos and the Corporatocracy
Unless we start killing these traitors and also there spawn total eradication of this scum..it’s game over! Now remove my comment!
Provocateur
Really James ?. You think that mass murder will improve things !. Let’s try voting the cu**ts out first.
The DNC playbook of rigged elections is what Ireland is facing at the next election be under no illusions. When this happens and these pond scum are returned as “elected” …………….serious civil unrest will commence. The chain of custody of ballots is owned by the state and their private security force the garda………….. war is coming
I see the comments that the gesture may be politically motivated only, but you have to start somewhere, short of murder I hope. Maybe if other county councils followed suit, and hold them to it at election time.