Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said that “huge numbers” of single male asylum seekers are continuing to present themselves in Ireland despite the state being “no longer in a position” to offer them accommodation.
Speaking on Morning Ireland this morning the Taoiseach said that last week saw “over 500” new claims made and that this was the largest figure for quite some time.
Responding to the figure of 1,103 men who the state has not provided accommodation for Varadkar said that unprecedented numbers were arriving in Ireland due to the “push factors” more so than “pull factors” were driving the numbers.
“I don’t think we should forget the context here. You know, we used to have a situation up until 2019, where between maybe 3,000 and 10,000 people arrived in Ireland every year seeking international protection.” he said.
“Because of the war in Ukraine, because of what’s happening in other parts of the world, because of conflict, governments collapsing, climate change, injustice, poverty, we have accepted over 100,000 people into our country in the past two or three years, providing accommodation for almost all of them.” he said.
He said a number of those unable to avail of state provided accommodation had found accommodation among their“family networks” and “friendship networks” in Ireland saying that there were “certainly many dozens if not hundreds” who had nowhere to stay.
Commenting on the government’s plan going forward to accommodate high numbers of international protection applicants and Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection from Ukraine the Taoiseach said, “But there’s barely a week or two that passes that we don’t open a new accommodation centre,”.
“The real struggle that we’re having at the moment is just to keep up with the numbers that are coming in. And the numbers are very, very significant and part of what we have to do is better controls at our borders and we’re doing that, turning around decisions more quickly so that those who are entitled to status get it and those who don’t are asked to leave the state,”.
Varadkar said that while 38 – 40% of those claiming asylum were “genuine” the majority were not genuine claims.
The Taoiseach said that numbers released by the Department of Integration which said that some 5,000 beds designated for asylum seekers and BOTPs from Ukraine were vacant are “misleading”.
He said that this was because it was usual to have a certain number of beds unoccupied and that in cases where a family of five were occupied in a unit meant for six people, the sixth bed was marked as being vacant.
Turning to the D-Hotel in Drogheda which was recently announced to be closing in order to house in the region of 500 international protection applicants, the Taoiseach said that it was his “preferred outcome” that the hotel split its services between accommodating asylum seekers and housing tourists.
He said a town the size of Drogheda “needed” a hotel and that the government should move away from taking over hotels and student accommodation to accommodate BOTPs and asylum seekers and instead move towards establishing dedicated accommodation centres.
“I think it shows why we need many new reception centres. And it also shows why we need to move away from the practice of taking, you know, the main hotel in a town out of use or existing student accommodation out of use.” he said adding that this “ will be a feature of the white paper which will come to government.”
Speaking of the situation where the state is no longer able to accommodate the numbers coming in he said, “ it’s not so much the absence of a policy or the absence of coordination that is making this so difficult. It is just a very large numbers coming in.”
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Here is a really radical idea. Perhaps the state could try enforcing the existing law. They could also try treating those who are genuine asylum claimants in exactly the same manner that they treat the Irish.
Right now we have an apartheid system with Ukrainians at the top of the preferred races followed by various scam artists from around the globe with Paddy at the bottom paying the taxes used to pay for others to get what we never had.
I have had my absolute fill of this liar Varadkar and his verbal diarrhoea.
I’m aware of a situation where a girl from Donegal, in first year in college in Limerick is effectively homeless .. She hasn’t been able to find accommodation so She sleeps on couches in various friends houses / apartments..
She travels home to Donegal regularly due to the intolerable situation she finds herself in..
A disgraceful set of circumstances, probably replicated all over the country as our young people suffer unnecessary.
Brought about by Government policy hell bent on housing every joker who turns up at our doorstep.
We do not have an obligation to house the world. We can’t..
A sensible imagination policy seems to be completely beyond this shower of incompetents running the country.
But then again, what do I know.
In their eyes I’m a far right, facist, racist hate speech propagating white privileged middle class White Man. Instead of being a concerned Father who worries and wonders what sort of future my children will have in my country…varadkar and co have so much to answer for.
You forgot “stale & pale” as some TD’s have been outrageously using to describe hard working Irish men.
NGO’s out
State funded propoganda out (aka the MSM)
The current government coalition & supposed opposition out (aka communism out )
Let’s take back our country from those that hate us
Freedom of speech in
A free press in
Independents & a reborn party in (one where the grassroots have taken back their parties & ousted the compromised & corrupt members at the top )
Incompetence is the key word that you have used.
Varadker and Martin are incompetents who are so ignorant about the world they assume every country in Africa is in a state of war or some extreme emergency, and therefore, Ireland is obligated to accommodate them.
If they even looked at a map and tried to compare the size of all the countries it might be a revelation to them. But I doubt it, they are willfully stupid.
If they are so incompetent then why would they feck off to Ukraine on a jolly while it’s meant to be a war zone. If they really thought that they would be nowhere near the place. No it is not incompetence, it is simply following orders from Brussels to allow Ireland be used as a pressure valve for Europe so they can divert all there unwanted travelers here. It is also starting to look a bit like a recruitment drive of sorts for single males. The question is for what???
Perhaps if Varadkar was a father himself he might have a tiny inkling of the worries and fears that parents are experiencing. He has zero empathy, along with his co-traitor, O’Gorman.
2000 spaces on Spike island. Reopen Mount Trenchard. Above all send out messages in every language that IRELAND IS FULL
Unfortunately lots of folk are still unaware this is actually orchestrated by our very own government. They could stop it over night but they have absolutely no intention of doing so.
We do not need more accommodation. We need more depirrations
Deport not support
Express Deportation procedures and dump that coalition! People will remember what Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Sinn Féin did to this country… long-term!
No more are welcome in my view. We’ve done enough. Stay away!!
How about housing these scammers at Aras an Uchatrain? President and wife would undoubtly afford them every courtesy and show us peons what hospitality is all about.
Paddy Last – Friday will tell a tale regarding what proportion of the population is still sleep walking
I’m afraid quite a lot are and quite a lot whistling past the graveyard.
Most people are fine with sustainable levels of immigration from culturally compatible countries regardless of ethnicity or skin colour. However, this free for all which allows vast numbers of young males from countries where Islamic extremism is rife is a form of self harm on steroids. Even many well integrated ethnic minorities in the west are warning us about how dangerous western immigration policy is to its own citizens.
I agree. Mounting evidence that there’s “more than a handful” of Islamic preachers in the UK who are preaching hatred against Jews (and possibly – in isolated cases – all non-Muslims). Perfectly understandable that many Muslims would be irate about what’s going on in Gaza and the West Bank but some of them want to bring the war to Europe – and treat all Jews as the “belligerents”.
Agreed . I know loads of foreign born people from all over Europe & South America living here that completely agree with the sentiment of ordinary Irish people. it’s so important to bring these people with us on making a stand against what’s happening & putting a stop to the Muslim single male invasion. It disarms the MSM & NGO ‘s ability to gaslight us as far right nationalists.
United we stand against this.
Same here, there are many nationalities that came here to work hard and make a life for themselves, and get involved with their communities and socialise with the locals. It’s nothing to do with the colour of a person’s skin, but the cultural divide, and young Muslim single men have a very different outlook to us Irish. Especially when it comes to girls and women.
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Nothing at all to do with skin colour but cultural issues. I mean if you were hiring for a job you’d make sure the candidate was a “good fit” for your team & organisation overall. Your not going to hire potential troublemakers. So the Government should ensure that people coming in share our values through legal immigration where we can pre screen people & pick & choose workers from countries that share our values. Nobody from the Middle East & North Africa should be seeking refugee in Ireland . The Middle East is full of safe countries that they can seek refugee in that share their values . Anyone coming here from those countries is an illegal immigration & essentially a criminal . They should be deported on arrival.
We have highly regarded Filipino and Indian nurses in our community and very welcone they are
Excellent point well said
Well if anyone still trusts this government I have a vaccine to sell you. It’s beyond belief these politicians expect people to believe they can do nothing to stop this invasion. Paddy is in for a serious wake up call in the next decade.
What’s left of us. I can’t see any of my children staying here. If I was them I’d probably leave myself
Government acting against the interests of the people in facilitating people trafficking on an industrial scale.Someone’s going to have to say stop at some stage.
The ‘huge numbers’ are a direct result of government policies. They are facilitating an invasion of our country. They are traitors.
Leave the jurisdiction of the ECHR is the only way to stop this. Ireland is choosing to effectively have no border as is much of Europe and Britain. We can see this with our eyes but when we point it out we get accused of being a conspiracy theorist despite our leaders openly conspiring to dramatically alter our societies.
If we vote yes on Friday, we effectively take a wrecking ball to our borders and society
Methinks: 500 are enough to ruin a town of 5000 people. How many such towns does Irland have?
We don’t need housing for these illegals, but a huge internment camp, on an uninhabited Island in the West of Ireland!
Then we should advertise the misery of this place. But first, Varadkar should be seen as the cause and kicked out!
The tank is full and with every single arrival now, the people will become exponentially aware of what problems FFG have brought upon the Irish people. Those who are arriving are not families, but an army of military-aged men! Irish people will soon need to create militias, to defend each other. Also against any ideas Leo has to bring more destruction on us!
The west of Ireland doesn’t want them. We’d prefer to keep our countryside and small islands traditional and pristine.
What would you prefer? In your towns and villages or on a unpopulated island, which would drive them away, rather than wanting to stay? If there is an Northern or Eastern Island, then that would be equally good. In Italy, they have Lampadusa… the poor people of that Island never deserved this!
Well said
What has the West of Ireland ever done to you that you would foist that upon it😉 No, instead, turn them away at point of entry. That way we don’t have to deal with them at all. Maybe we should suggest to good ol’ boy Rodders that he needs to tweet the message in every conceivable language that we’re full, and don’t bother their arses coming here. We don’t want them.
Far right speech by our Taoiseach. I’m sure RTE and the MSM will characterize it as such.
Our politicians are earning over double the salary of many productive Irish workers in the private sector who are struggling to make ends meet. How about reducing their taxes – including the hidden taxes – if there are sufficient funds to support importing tens of thousands of people and having to integrate them over a decade and more?
There will be no integration for a lot of these chancers. It’s not in their mind-set. All we will have is divisions in society, Paddy can work himself and herself into the grave to fund them, and they’ll sit back and laugh, and bemoan the fact that they don’t like their accommodation and the weather is awful, and the food is sub-par. We’re heading full on into ghettoes where local people fear to tread. Just have a look across the water at some of their cities.
The enormity of this problem is not apparent to a lot of people in Ireland. The march by the well meaning idiots last weekend is evidence of this. Varadkar’s and the rest should be replaced at the earliest convenience by the more sane politicians or else we are screwed.
He has slipped into the conversation the criteria under which Ireland has accepted people as Asylum Seekers.
The war in Ukraine .
Governments collapsing.
Climate change .
Injustice .
Poverty .
If all of these are considered to be genuine reasons for Asylum to be granted then the country will sink under the weight of the tens of millions entitled to come . He does not say these things accidentally. He is deliberately trying to establish the criteria for the future . This government and the opposition are an existential threat to Ireland .
Where are the ‘governments collapsing’? None of them are legal.
They have no business in Ireland. They can have sex with minors in NE and NW Nigeria. That’s the culture that’s in here to replace the Irish. Now he is into ‘dedicated’ asylum centres for them. He is refusing to deport the illegals. He does not even mention them. This government is pure evil.
In other words a huge army is coming into ireland to sort us out.
This is an orchestrated invasion of Ireland faciliated by the corrupt political, ngo and administrative irish state by subversive agents of global institutions Varadkar chief amongst them…………this is at total odds with the majority of Irish citizens and must be stopped by whatever means………….the culture and social fabric of Ireland is being destroyed in real time
Throw out all the Ukrainians, they going back home on holidays anyway
If a country is OK to visit on holidays…. then that is a safe country! I wonder what they will smuggle back in?
Our leaders have a blind admiration of the US government ignoring their economic blundering and open doors to millions of unvetted illegal immigrants.
Elon Musk tweeted a report: “Biden administration ADMITS flying 320 000 migrants secretly into the US to reduce the number of crossings at the border has national security ‘vulnerabilities’.”
It is one thing welcoming responsible and law abiding people who will work hard for the benefit of the whole country. I do not think the many single males of military age – some in camouflage dress – have good intentions.
He warned: It is highly probable that the groundwork is being laid for something far worse than 9/11. Just a matter of time.
We would like to know who our politicians have invited into Ireland
and how thorough the vetting process has been
and why those gaming the system have not been sent straight home.
Great news for Leo lots of new exoctic boys to choose from.
Varadker and the Irish government are absurd. Varadker says the numbers seeking asylum have increased due to ‘injustice & poverty, governments collapsing, climate change’. These are not reasons to seek asylum. The asylum system is for those fleeing war, and therefore, Ukrainians, Libyans & Syrians have a potential asylum case. And I emphasise potential because it depends on which part of their country they come from.
Nobody else from anywhere else in the world is entitled to asylum because they aren’t coming from war zones!!!
Injustice, poverty and collapsing governments are not grounds to seek asylum in a foreign country.
I’ve said it many times on gript’s comments people are giving the likes of Varadker too much credit. He doesn’t know what he is doing here. He’s not engaged in some ingenious conspiracy to hoodwink the Irish people and get rich out of it all when he gets a nice EU job in Brussels next year.
He is just not that smart and is someone who is totally out of his depth as leader if a country.
An Ethnic Indian’s rage and his racism against ‘white’ people…
And remember, all of these people, a huge number of which do not contribute to the state but will be in line to get a pension in the not too distant future. However bad things are now 10 years down the line the pension age will be over 70 as there is no money in the state coffers to pay them. This government in a very short time has turned our great little country into a ticking time bomb which will implode when the money runs out. If the multinationals ever leave Ireland we will become a third world country overnight.
Its never going to stop if we keep “asking them to leave the state”
Full of Roma gypos , Muslims and savages from Africa and Asia.
He is right “Government collapsing” is definitely the contribution factor , the Irish government.
They will put up modular homes without planning for refugees but if you Irish you will be evicted.
https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/national-news/1431444/tipperary-man-65-told-to-leave-his-log-cabin-home-and-go-on-social-housing-list.html
What could possibly go wrong
It’s as if they want them to come here to prove what a successful country Ireland is! We need someone like Javier Milei, can’t we outsource the Government while we are at it.
I have a cunning plan.Let them all come here and then we go to Africa.Surely they wont follow us back when here is fecked and Africa is thriving.
Look at Elon’s tweet, he says that the US government has flown in 320,000 (an army!) migrants and nobody knows where they are! He talks about a planned attack that will be much worse than the 9/11 attack.
We should really watch what Varadkar is doing with these people and keep account of everyone of them. I don’t trust him!
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1764885292199063590/photo/1
Are they being fliwn in via Baldonnell????? Asking fir a friend