They're only counting people from Ukraine here (or at least people who say that's where they're from). As the Secretary General of the Irish Red Cross admitted recently, not everyone has the proof.
>Tánaiste Leo Varadkar said there are no plans to cap the number of Ukrainian refugees arriving into the country, suggesting we are not yet taking in our fair share.
>He said that Ireland has not taken as many displaced Ukrainians as other countries on a comparative basis and that, even with the system for receiving refugees now full, EU rules would not allow for limits to be placed.
>"This is part of European law. So it's actually not in our authority, in any case, to limit the numbers that are coming from Ukraine," said Mr Varadkar.
Joe Duffy once remarked to Áine Ní Chonaill that 'we don't own the country'. He was right, you know.
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>Tánaiste Leo Varadkar said there are no plans to cap the number of Ukrainian refugees arriving into the country, suggesting we are not yet taking in our fair share.
>He said that Ireland has not taken as many displaced Ukrainians as other countries on a comparative basis and that, even with the system for receiving refugees now full, EU rules would not allow for limits to be placed.
>"This is part of European law. So it's actually not in our authority, in any case, to limit the numbers that are coming from Ukraine," said Mr Varadkar.
Joe Duffy once remarked to Áine Ní Chonaill that 'we don't own the country'. He was right, you know.
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>He said that Ireland is reactionary in dealing with the arrival of people seeking international protection, instead of planning ahead. Mr Khambule warned that people will end up sleeping on the streets because they will have nowhere else to go.
Bit like Irish people so.
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Bit like Irish people so.
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Harry's Restaurant in #Kinnegad is to cease trading on Sunday.
If you remember, this restaurant was the first to blow the whistle on the trouble in the town. They share the same building as the hotel but are not associated with it.
Locals are understandably very upset in the replies. It's a loss of 17 jobs too.
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If you remember, this restaurant was the first to blow the whistle on the trouble in the town. They share the same building as the hotel but are not associated with it.
Locals are understandably very upset in the replies. It's a loss of 17 jobs too.
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Derek Blighe is in Courtown, Wexford where more male asylum seekers have been dumped at a hotel.
He did very well here explaining some facts about the asylum system to some local women.
Up to 90% of asylum applications are rejected yet few are ever deported. If an asylum seeker appeals the decision to reject their application and remains in the country for five years, they are granted an automatic right to stay.
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He did very well here explaining some facts about the asylum system to some local women.
Up to 90% of asylum applications are rejected yet few are ever deported. If an asylum seeker appeals the decision to reject their application and remains in the country for five years, they are granted an automatic right to stay.
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Court town has a fakeugee problem.
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This is RTÉ's news item about the #Kinnegad community meeting last Monday. Nothing remarkable in it, but I'm going to upload audio for the full meeting in a bit so you can compare their coverage of the meeting to what actually happened at it.
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Kinnegad Community Meeting
Late Stage Ireland
Kinnegad Community Meeting | 11 July 2022
The audio is hit & miss in this so I'm going to provide a lot of timestamps below to make it easier to understand what's being said.
The audio is hit & miss in this so I'm going to provide a lot of timestamps below to make it easier to understand what's being said.
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Late Stage Ireland
Late Stage Ireland – Kinnegad Community Meeting
0:00 - Cllr. Denis Leonards begins the meeting.
1:05 - "This is not in relation to the national debate"
2:10 - He laments social media relating to Kinnegad being used to debate national issues on asylum.
2:24 - "Owner of hotel has signed a 12 month contract for temporary emergency accommodation". He says there's 75 asylum seekers there currently but it's contracted to house up to 150.
3:06 - "There was a small amount of behaviour which was whipped up in the first weekend. It's been investigated, and all those responsible have been reported and have been dealt with accordingly the way anybody is in Kinnegad" (Admits multiple reports to the Gardaí)
4:20 - Cllr Leonard wants to advocate for reducing "the six month waiting period for genuine asylum seekers," whatever he thinks that means.
5:08 - Cllr Leonard says he's asked for local TDs to be present at a meeting with IPAS officials "because this is a national issue." (I thought you said it wasn't a minute ago, Denis?)
10:00 - The steering committee begin their remarks with one woman (suspected NGO associate) immediately confronting Justin Barrett & National Party presence. She says nobody appreciated the leaflet drop in the town last week.
10:12 - Justin Barrett replies "nobody?"
10:20 - Philip Dwyer begins his remarks and requests two minutes to speak.
12:20 - Philip Dwyer leaves.
12:54 - Committee woman resumes speaking — 'this is about our community and people from war-torn countries etc'
14:17 - A committee woman (suspected Sinn Féin associate) starts speaking. She says they asked Peter Burke (Westmeath Fine Gael TD) for a liaison worker for the migrants, emphasised lack of amenities and support. The asylum seekers are only in the country 20 days.
15:30 - A woman from the crowd starts speaking. She says if there's trouble in the hotel their kids are still at risk.
16:20 - She says her 15 year old stepdaughter witnessed brawls in the bar & restaurant adjoining the hotel and had to speak to the gardaí. She believes its all a money making racket. Someone else points out the hotel owners are on holiday for 3 weeks (nobody in the crowd seemed to know who owned the hotel)
16:42 - Steering committee woman on far left of table starts speaking. She invited the asylum seekers to the meeting. She says they've been here for 20 days and moved four times since they've arrived in Ireland. They have nothing to do in Kinnegad.
18:00 - She says they are ashamed over things being said about them on social media.
18:40 - She says people need to get to know "these gentlemen" — 'We don't know what they've been through. There was bad eggs in this community before they arrived but we know who they were and were able to tackle them ourselves.'
19:32 - A woman in the crowd complains that when the asylum seekers arrived "everybody was in danger for five to six days and no-one gave a shit". She says she did not feel safe walking down her bothrín.
19:50 - A committee woman talks about there being no consultation process. They aired their concerns to Longford-Westmeath TDs as well as Roderic O'Gorman, who couldn't give her an answer and "admitted he was wrong".
20:21 - A man from the crowd says he got a letter from O'Gorman saying there's still 75 new asylum seekers going in that night. He goes on to say the week of problems they experienced due to 'lack of facilities' will repeat and the present asylum seekers don't want any more arriving too. He says women are going to feel more threatened walking down the street. The women at the table agree.
21:54 - The man is resigned to the hotel accommodating the present 75 asylum seekers but doesn't want any more. "They're not going to get shipped out but we cannot take another 75."
22:26 - Cllr Leonard says there's been no confirmation of another 75 asylum seekers arriving tonight, but that doesn't mean it's not going to happen although he has asked Roderic O'Gorman to put a hold on them arriving through intermediaries.
1:05 - "This is not in relation to the national debate"
2:10 - He laments social media relating to Kinnegad being used to debate national issues on asylum.
2:24 - "Owner of hotel has signed a 12 month contract for temporary emergency accommodation". He says there's 75 asylum seekers there currently but it's contracted to house up to 150.
3:06 - "There was a small amount of behaviour which was whipped up in the first weekend. It's been investigated, and all those responsible have been reported and have been dealt with accordingly the way anybody is in Kinnegad" (Admits multiple reports to the Gardaí)
4:20 - Cllr Leonard wants to advocate for reducing "the six month waiting period for genuine asylum seekers," whatever he thinks that means.
5:08 - Cllr Leonard says he's asked for local TDs to be present at a meeting with IPAS officials "because this is a national issue." (I thought you said it wasn't a minute ago, Denis?)
10:00 - The steering committee begin their remarks with one woman (suspected NGO associate) immediately confronting Justin Barrett & National Party presence. She says nobody appreciated the leaflet drop in the town last week.
10:12 - Justin Barrett replies "nobody?"
10:20 - Philip Dwyer begins his remarks and requests two minutes to speak.
12:20 - Philip Dwyer leaves.
12:54 - Committee woman resumes speaking — 'this is about our community and people from war-torn countries etc'
14:17 - A committee woman (suspected Sinn Féin associate) starts speaking. She says they asked Peter Burke (Westmeath Fine Gael TD) for a liaison worker for the migrants, emphasised lack of amenities and support. The asylum seekers are only in the country 20 days.
15:30 - A woman from the crowd starts speaking. She says if there's trouble in the hotel their kids are still at risk.
16:20 - She says her 15 year old stepdaughter witnessed brawls in the bar & restaurant adjoining the hotel and had to speak to the gardaí. She believes its all a money making racket. Someone else points out the hotel owners are on holiday for 3 weeks (nobody in the crowd seemed to know who owned the hotel)
16:42 - Steering committee woman on far left of table starts speaking. She invited the asylum seekers to the meeting. She says they've been here for 20 days and moved four times since they've arrived in Ireland. They have nothing to do in Kinnegad.
18:00 - She says they are ashamed over things being said about them on social media.
18:40 - She says people need to get to know "these gentlemen" — 'We don't know what they've been through. There was bad eggs in this community before they arrived but we know who they were and were able to tackle them ourselves.'
19:32 - A woman in the crowd complains that when the asylum seekers arrived "everybody was in danger for five to six days and no-one gave a shit". She says she did not feel safe walking down her bothrín.
19:50 - A committee woman talks about there being no consultation process. They aired their concerns to Longford-Westmeath TDs as well as Roderic O'Gorman, who couldn't give her an answer and "admitted he was wrong".
20:21 - A man from the crowd says he got a letter from O'Gorman saying there's still 75 new asylum seekers going in that night. He goes on to say the week of problems they experienced due to 'lack of facilities' will repeat and the present asylum seekers don't want any more arriving too. He says women are going to feel more threatened walking down the street. The women at the table agree.
21:54 - The man is resigned to the hotel accommodating the present 75 asylum seekers but doesn't want any more. "They're not going to get shipped out but we cannot take another 75."
22:26 - Cllr Leonard says there's been no confirmation of another 75 asylum seekers arriving tonight, but that doesn't mean it's not going to happen although he has asked Roderic O'Gorman to put a hold on them arriving through intermediaries.
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Late Stage Ireland – Kinnegad Community Meeting
23:08 - "IPAS have given this guy (the hotelier) the money...if we get rid of this 75, they'll be another 75 in."
23:41 - Steering committee woman says the present asylum seekers are only just settling in now - "the arguments (between them) are slowing down which means the groups are beginning to naturally segregate which is what needed to happen because they were shoving them all in to rooms together...we can't have a rotation of this for the year."
24:15 - Man from crowd says it shouldn't be called temporary accommodation because it's a median housing contract (3-6 months). He believes after 6 months the asylum seekers will get processed and can then either leave and get a job or request to be moved to another asylum centre but more will be moved in. (Bit of backlog on processing applications this year though...)
25:10 - Denis Leonard announces Question Time.
25:30 - Man in crowd asks why the migrants were moved around Ireland multiple times already. He gets told they were moved to accommodate Ukrainian refugees. They started off in Cork, then were moved to Red Cow, then Citywest, now Kinnegad.
26:05 - Same man asks if those migrants involved in incidents on social media involving women & children were "dealt with". The women admit two were involved in incidents, Cllr Leonard says that they were "moved on" elsewhere in the country.
26:27 - A man in the crowd says he was told one was arrested and one was taken out of the hotel. He asked the Garda Sergeant if that was the same person or two different people and she couldn't tell them. He doesn't know if it's one person or a group causing the trouble.
26:44 - Cllr Leonard says he talked to the Garda Superintendent that morning and was told that "three of them in total were dealt with, some with reports, some were moved for antisocial behaviour, "the way any of us would be dealt with for anti-social behaviour."
27:18 - A man in the crowd asks if the hotel has permission to convert to a Direct Provision centre (a specific planning permission exemption was introduced in 2015 for hotels to accommodate asylum seekers in perpetuity)
27:32 - There's 45 rooms in the hotel but one woman says she heard they're sleeping in extra function rooms to accommodate the high numbers.
27:45 - Woman in crowd asks if this will be a continuous yearly contract. Leonard brings in his friend Jimmy O'Connell to answer the question which isn't much of one.
29:12 - We hear from a man in the crowd that Intel employees were staying at the hotel but were told they had to move out by the Wednesday before the asylum seekers were moved in on Thursday.
30:20 - One of the steering committee women says the owner of Harry's Hotel has three or four other hotels where he's doing the exact same thing.
30:30 - A woman remarks that the reason she believes it's all men in the hotel is because they can cram more of them into each room so it's more profitable.
30:38 - One of the steering committee women says she wants to find out who in the Dept. of Equality is responsible for evaluating premises for use by asylum seekers — "I know how government procurement works. I deal with it every day".
31:16 - Someone has a go at the NP, thanking Cllr Denis Leonard for asking members of the National Party (mistaking Phil Dwyer as National Party) to leave, even though Justin Barrett is still in the room — "They must be sickened to their feet to hear from the top table how welcoming Kinnegad is as a community....we have great confidence in our local representatives, our TDS, our ministers..."
32:50 - Justin begins to respond — "it was said to be entirely about Kinnegad but then you make it about us". He is interrupted by the steering committee who shout over him and refuse to let him continue — "I was directly addressed!".
23:41 - Steering committee woman says the present asylum seekers are only just settling in now - "the arguments (between them) are slowing down which means the groups are beginning to naturally segregate which is what needed to happen because they were shoving them all in to rooms together...we can't have a rotation of this for the year."
24:15 - Man from crowd says it shouldn't be called temporary accommodation because it's a median housing contract (3-6 months). He believes after 6 months the asylum seekers will get processed and can then either leave and get a job or request to be moved to another asylum centre but more will be moved in. (Bit of backlog on processing applications this year though...)
25:10 - Denis Leonard announces Question Time.
25:30 - Man in crowd asks why the migrants were moved around Ireland multiple times already. He gets told they were moved to accommodate Ukrainian refugees. They started off in Cork, then were moved to Red Cow, then Citywest, now Kinnegad.
26:05 - Same man asks if those migrants involved in incidents on social media involving women & children were "dealt with". The women admit two were involved in incidents, Cllr Leonard says that they were "moved on" elsewhere in the country.
26:27 - A man in the crowd says he was told one was arrested and one was taken out of the hotel. He asked the Garda Sergeant if that was the same person or two different people and she couldn't tell them. He doesn't know if it's one person or a group causing the trouble.
26:44 - Cllr Leonard says he talked to the Garda Superintendent that morning and was told that "three of them in total were dealt with, some with reports, some were moved for antisocial behaviour, "the way any of us would be dealt with for anti-social behaviour."
27:18 - A man in the crowd asks if the hotel has permission to convert to a Direct Provision centre (a specific planning permission exemption was introduced in 2015 for hotels to accommodate asylum seekers in perpetuity)
27:32 - There's 45 rooms in the hotel but one woman says she heard they're sleeping in extra function rooms to accommodate the high numbers.
27:45 - Woman in crowd asks if this will be a continuous yearly contract. Leonard brings in his friend Jimmy O'Connell to answer the question which isn't much of one.
29:12 - We hear from a man in the crowd that Intel employees were staying at the hotel but were told they had to move out by the Wednesday before the asylum seekers were moved in on Thursday.
30:20 - One of the steering committee women says the owner of Harry's Hotel has three or four other hotels where he's doing the exact same thing.
30:30 - A woman remarks that the reason she believes it's all men in the hotel is because they can cram more of them into each room so it's more profitable.
30:38 - One of the steering committee women says she wants to find out who in the Dept. of Equality is responsible for evaluating premises for use by asylum seekers — "I know how government procurement works. I deal with it every day".
31:16 - Someone has a go at the NP, thanking Cllr Denis Leonard for asking members of the National Party (mistaking Phil Dwyer as National Party) to leave, even though Justin Barrett is still in the room — "They must be sickened to their feet to hear from the top table how welcoming Kinnegad is as a community....we have great confidence in our local representatives, our TDS, our ministers..."
32:50 - Justin begins to respond — "it was said to be entirely about Kinnegad but then you make it about us". He is interrupted by the steering committee who shout over him and refuse to let him continue — "I was directly addressed!".
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Late Stage Ireland – Kinnegad Community Meeting
33:15 - Elderly woman in crowd asks "With 75 immigrants coming into our Country, how safe are our children & women in this town?". A local man interjects "They're not safe" and a committee woman agrees "No, they're not," but quickly adds "If it was 75 Irishmen, they still wouldn't be safe."
33:32 - The committee woman (suspected NGO associate) wants to get "the full documentation waiting time" reduced from 6 months to 3 months "for our group". What she's confusing the crowd about here is the scheme called 'Labour Market Access Permission'. If an asylum seeker's application has not been rejected within 6 months of making it, they are allowed to work and continue working if they subsequently are rejected but appeal the decision.
33:51 - The uselessness of the vetting process is outlined.
34:15 - Admits some of them will not be genuine refugees (try most).
34:44 - Steering committee women tells the crowd if they see absolutely any suspicious activity to report it to the gardaí. Extra resources are being put into Kinnagad and they will investigate it. They'd prefer to discover someone was just being overly cautious than not be called.
35:42 - Cllr Leonard claims asylum seekers don't want to step out of line as it would mean their application is null & void and "they are in many cases sent back". This isn't true.
35:59 - Cllr Leonard downplays the significance of the anti-social incidents reported on social media, says the number of incidents actually reported to the gardaí is miniscule.
36:45 - Local woman in crowd speaks about not being able to walk down a bothrín by herself.
37:34 - A man from the crowd speaks who would later walk out of the meeting and was probably the only local there with some backbone. He calls out the defeatism of the steering committee and criticises them for being concerned about the welfare of the asylum seekers over the welfare of the people of Kinnegad. He gets interrupted by one of the women at the table who declares the only way to fight back is on a humanitarian angle, to see if the hotel owner has broken their contract and duty of care towards the asylum seekers. She also mentions the horror of there not being an NGO present when the migrants arrived. The man asks if a protest could be a good route but immediately gets shut down.
41:57 - The man points out the incongruity of the committee claiming to be pushing back against the DP centre in town while simultaneously accepting 75 more asylum seekers.
42:23 - Cllr Leonard's friend Jimmy O'Connell steps in to finger-wag at John Coyle — "We have to do this in the proper way. We can't bad-mouth these men."
43:04 - Cllr Leonard asks for questions from the crowd to be put to government ministers & IPAS.
44:20 - Cllr Leonard laments the planning permission exemption which was introduced in 2015 allowing hotels to accommodate asylum seekers in perpetuity. The former leader of his own Labour Party, Alan Kelly, was responsible for introducing the legislation incidentally.
45:10 - Steering committee woman says we have to go "the humanitarian route" in opposing the asylum seekers being accommodated at the hotel — it isn't good enough for them etc.
47:38 - Steering committee woman wants any amenities laid on for the asylum seekers to be made available to Kinnegad residents. Good luck.
48:36 - An Australian woman living in Kinnegad for 20 years asks if county councils are regularly bypassed on issues like this. She asks why nobody saw this coming when the hotelier owns two other hotels which he is using to accommodate asylum seekers.
49:48 - Steering committee woman replies that Sinn Féin TD Sorcha Clarke from Mullingar told her that "no county council is taken into consideration for any direct provision centre", though we knew this already.
33:32 - The committee woman (suspected NGO associate) wants to get "the full documentation waiting time" reduced from 6 months to 3 months "for our group". What she's confusing the crowd about here is the scheme called 'Labour Market Access Permission'. If an asylum seeker's application has not been rejected within 6 months of making it, they are allowed to work and continue working if they subsequently are rejected but appeal the decision.
33:51 - The uselessness of the vetting process is outlined.
34:15 - Admits some of them will not be genuine refugees (try most).
34:44 - Steering committee women tells the crowd if they see absolutely any suspicious activity to report it to the gardaí. Extra resources are being put into Kinnagad and they will investigate it. They'd prefer to discover someone was just being overly cautious than not be called.
35:42 - Cllr Leonard claims asylum seekers don't want to step out of line as it would mean their application is null & void and "they are in many cases sent back". This isn't true.
35:59 - Cllr Leonard downplays the significance of the anti-social incidents reported on social media, says the number of incidents actually reported to the gardaí is miniscule.
36:45 - Local woman in crowd speaks about not being able to walk down a bothrín by herself.
37:34 - A man from the crowd speaks who would later walk out of the meeting and was probably the only local there with some backbone. He calls out the defeatism of the steering committee and criticises them for being concerned about the welfare of the asylum seekers over the welfare of the people of Kinnegad. He gets interrupted by one of the women at the table who declares the only way to fight back is on a humanitarian angle, to see if the hotel owner has broken their contract and duty of care towards the asylum seekers. She also mentions the horror of there not being an NGO present when the migrants arrived. The man asks if a protest could be a good route but immediately gets shut down.
41:57 - The man points out the incongruity of the committee claiming to be pushing back against the DP centre in town while simultaneously accepting 75 more asylum seekers.
42:23 - Cllr Leonard's friend Jimmy O'Connell steps in to finger-wag at John Coyle — "We have to do this in the proper way. We can't bad-mouth these men."
43:04 - Cllr Leonard asks for questions from the crowd to be put to government ministers & IPAS.
44:20 - Cllr Leonard laments the planning permission exemption which was introduced in 2015 allowing hotels to accommodate asylum seekers in perpetuity. The former leader of his own Labour Party, Alan Kelly, was responsible for introducing the legislation incidentally.
45:10 - Steering committee woman says we have to go "the humanitarian route" in opposing the asylum seekers being accommodated at the hotel — it isn't good enough for them etc.
47:38 - Steering committee woman wants any amenities laid on for the asylum seekers to be made available to Kinnegad residents. Good luck.
48:36 - An Australian woman living in Kinnegad for 20 years asks if county councils are regularly bypassed on issues like this. She asks why nobody saw this coming when the hotelier owns two other hotels which he is using to accommodate asylum seekers.
49:48 - Steering committee woman replies that Sinn Féin TD Sorcha Clarke from Mullingar told her that "no county council is taken into consideration for any direct provision centre", though we knew this already.
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50:39 - A woman asks whether the asylum seekers are allowed to do voluntary work. They're not as they're not vetted. "We don't know whether they've ever been arrested or in prison as they have no documentation so it would be on your conscience if god forbid something happened".
51:34 - A woman from the crowd suggests locals should "get to know" the unvetted asylum seekers as "ignorance, you know, breeds hysteria" and "we're a very kind town". The man with the backbone who spoke up earlier gets up and leaves the meeting. You can hear his heavy foot steps.
52:55 - A man asks if the asylum seekers are allowed to wander wherever they want. He gets told they have to sign in and out of the hotel. A committee woman says the gardaí have told the asylum seekers they aren't allowed anywhere near children like playgrounds (why, did something happen?). A woman in the crowd says they've been spotted in playgrounds. The committee woman says to call the gardaí if that happens again.
53:23 - Someone from the crowd interjects that one woman who spotted the migrants roaming around the playground didn't think to call the Gardaí. Guess the Sunday World didn't talk to her either.
53:32 - A committee woman empathises that she felt uncomfortable when she was forced out onto the road by a group of the asylum seekers walking down the street.
53:40 Cllr Leonard defends the asylum seekers being at the playground, citing cultural differences.
55:25 A man in the crowd is under the illusion asylum seekers are screened as soon as they arrive in Ireland — "They don't come in as rapists and terrorists and blokes that are going to kill you, you know what I mean. They're screened."
56:08 A woman wonders how they are screened if they have lost their passports.
51:34 - A woman from the crowd suggests locals should "get to know" the unvetted asylum seekers as "ignorance, you know, breeds hysteria" and "we're a very kind town". The man with the backbone who spoke up earlier gets up and leaves the meeting. You can hear his heavy foot steps.
52:55 - A man asks if the asylum seekers are allowed to wander wherever they want. He gets told they have to sign in and out of the hotel. A committee woman says the gardaí have told the asylum seekers they aren't allowed anywhere near children like playgrounds (why, did something happen?). A woman in the crowd says they've been spotted in playgrounds. The committee woman says to call the gardaí if that happens again.
53:23 - Someone from the crowd interjects that one woman who spotted the migrants roaming around the playground didn't think to call the Gardaí. Guess the Sunday World didn't talk to her either.
53:32 - A committee woman empathises that she felt uncomfortable when she was forced out onto the road by a group of the asylum seekers walking down the street.
53:40 Cllr Leonard defends the asylum seekers being at the playground, citing cultural differences.
55:25 A man in the crowd is under the illusion asylum seekers are screened as soon as they arrive in Ireland — "They don't come in as rapists and terrorists and blokes that are going to kill you, you know what I mean. They're screened."
56:08 A woman wonders how they are screened if they have lost their passports.
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>The gang mostly used Italian documents as its national papers are easier to forge or copy than most other European countries. Once they arrived in Ireland at Dublin Airport, the people dumped their documents and claimed asylum.
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Albanians & Georgians were the only two groups Leo Vardakar (as Taoiseach) admitted to being responsible for submitting large numbers of dishonest asylum applications. We were told that "an immigration clampdown" at Dublin Airport saw applications from both nationalities "slow to a trickle" in 2019. It was short-lived.
Yet, when Minister Roderic O'Gorman launched the white paper to end Direct Provision committing to provide all asylum seekers with their own homes within four months of their arrival, two of the eight languages he published it in were Albanian and Georgian.
They're laughing at you.
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Albanians & Georgians were the only two groups Leo Vardakar (as Taoiseach) admitted to being responsible for submitting large numbers of dishonest asylum applications. We were told that "an immigration clampdown" at Dublin Airport saw applications from both nationalities "slow to a trickle" in 2019. It was short-lived.
Yet, when Minister Roderic O'Gorman launched the white paper to end Direct Provision committing to provide all asylum seekers with their own homes within four months of their arrival, two of the eight languages he published it in were Albanian and Georgian.
They're laughing at you.
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>Mnyandu, who uses the pronoun “they”, had arrived in Ireland two months earlier, seeking asylum from the persecution they suffered as a trans person in South Africa.
If Mnyandu felt persucted in South Africa, that's a matter for the justice system in the "rainbow nation". It's not grounds to fly 14,000 kilometers to Ireland and demand asylum.
>Mnyandu received leave to remain in Ireland in April...
That's how Sorcha Pollak explains to her readers that an asylum application was rejected but the asylum seeker was allowed to stay regardless.
So it took just over two and half years to claim asylum, be rejected and then granted amnesty. The government is right. They have sped up the processing time.
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If Mnyandu felt persucted in South Africa, that's a matter for the justice system in the "rainbow nation". It's not grounds to fly 14,000 kilometers to Ireland and demand asylum.
>Mnyandu received leave to remain in Ireland in April...
That's how Sorcha Pollak explains to her readers that an asylum application was rejected but the asylum seeker was allowed to stay regardless.
So it took just over two and half years to claim asylum, be rejected and then granted amnesty. The government is right. They have sped up the processing time.
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Ireland is falling apart while our politicians commit to vast reconstruction projects in foreign countries. The more failures that accumulate domestically, the grander the macro-goals become. We can't house our own people but we can make grand promises to save the planet. We haggle over the costs of redressing negligent construction practices which affect tens of thousands of native Irish people, but at the same time write blank cheques for infinite asylum seekers. Our politicians sound increasingly like PR reps for a contracting company as it bids for globalist vanity projects. nationalparty.ie/join
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We need to throw money into Nigeria so our pensioners can retire, guys.
-Latest economic advice from The David McWilliams Podcast.
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Regardless of what you think about Tommy Robinson I'd advise people to watch this film on Hope Not Hate. This thoroughly amoral, hypocritical and repulsive organization, are a tentacle of the British power-structure which seem to exist for no other purpose than to destroy the lives of any native who disagrees with the policies and ideology of that power-structure.
It was refreshing that Robinson referred to them as such and not allow them to be incorrectly called ''Marxists'' or ''Far Left''. They are not in any way radicals, they're enforcers of the current regime.
When Nick Lowles grins at the charge of contacting Pakistani drug gangs in order to dig up dirt on dissidents that isn't some kooky lefty grinning, he has the full backing of the British state and media.
What's being revealed is that behind the PR and dumb neoliberal slogans, is a soulless, bureaucratic mindset which frequently crosses the line into outright sadism.
Regardless of what you think about Tommy Robinson I'd advise people to watch this film on Hope Not Hate. This thoroughly amoral, hypocritical and repulsive organization, are a tentacle of the British power-structure which seem to exist for no other purpose than to destroy the lives of any native who disagrees with the policies and ideology of that power-structure.
It was refreshing that Robinson referred to them as such and not allow them to be incorrectly called ''Marxists'' or ''Far Left''. They are not in any way radicals, they're enforcers of the current regime.
When Nick Lowles grins at the charge of contacting Pakistani drug gangs in order to dig up dirt on dissidents that isn't some kooky lefty grinning, he has the full backing of the British state and media.
What's being revealed is that behind the PR and dumb neoliberal slogans, is a soulless, bureaucratic mindset which frequently crosses the line into outright sadism.
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Hope Not Hate, a far left wing organisation (and a registered charity) has destroyed countless lives, repeatedly lied, slandered and defamed anyone who doesn't conform to…
Hope Not Hate, a far left wing organisation (and a registered charity) has destroyed countless lives, repeatedly lied, slandered and defamed anyone who doesn't conform to…
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Sam Blanckensee, Incoming Chair of Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI) speaking at one of the government's Shared Island events:
"TENI always has a breakfast the morning of Dublin Pride, and my favourite thing about it is the young people, and when I say young people I mean 7 & 8-years-olds, coming in with their parents — so young, very young trans people who discovered their identity probably during the pandemic, whose parents are maybe struggling, and for the first time they’re meeting friends, they’re making friends with people with a similar identity to them in a similar space"
🔗 twitter.com
"TENI always has a breakfast the morning of Dublin Pride, and my favourite thing about it is the young people, and when I say young people I mean 7 & 8-years-olds, coming in with their parents — so young, very young trans people who discovered their identity probably during the pandemic, whose parents are maybe struggling, and for the first time they’re meeting friends, they’re making friends with people with a similar identity to them in a similar space"
🔗 twitter.com
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Cllr Denis Leonard was bemoaning the regulations which permitted Harry's Hotel in #Kinnegad to change its function and accommodate asylum seekers without needing planning permission. He said he wanted to look into it. I guess he's only bothered now that his town was affected.
But if he does look into it, he will find it was a specific planning permission exemption introduced by the former leader of his Labour party, Alan Kelly, acting as Minister for the Environment in 2015.
Here's the link:
🔗 irishstatutebook.ie
But if he does look into it, he will find it was a specific planning permission exemption introduced by the former leader of his Labour party, Alan Kelly, acting as Minister for the Environment in 2015.
Here's the link:
🔗 irishstatutebook.ie
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Ireland has temporarily suspended its participation in the Council of Europe Agreement on the Abolition of Visas For Refugees for twelve months.
Ireland signed up to the agreement in 1969. Our now former co-signatories were Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.
The UK signed up in 1968 but suspended their participation in 2003. France suspended in 1986.
The agreement meant people granted refugee status in any of those countries were allowed to travel to Ireland without the need for a visa as long as the visit did not extend past 3 months. It was for visiting relatives etc.
What has been happening apparently is that people have been using these temporary travel passes to get into Ireland where they just make fresh asylum claims. Ireland is more attractive than the countries they left, I guess. There are free homes on offer within four months of arrival after all, and our deportation system is voluntary.
It could be that some countries are granting them refugee status so they can get their travel passes, leave and come here. The full nature of the abuse isn't detailed. It isn't stated which countries they're coming from. There's probably a set list.
Apparently in the year from January 2021 to January 2022, 479 people arrived in Ireland using these temporary travel passes and then claimed asylum.
A further 281 asylum applicants arrived here who had been granted refugee status in other EU countries which hadn't signed up for the agreement. The reports don't explain how they got here or where they are from.
But that means 760 out of the 2,649 new asylum applications Ireland received in 2021 were from people who had already been granted refugee status elsewhere in the EU. That's 29% of of the total. 18% used travel passes.
Why is this only coming to light now? Why wasn't the agreement suspended before? How many are have been coming in this year?
>Justice Minister Helen McEntee said there is “evidence” that the system may be abused.
Try looking a bit harder, Helen. You'll find the whole system has been a racket for the past 25 years, but you know that. We had to wait until there was no beds left in the country before they did something as minor as this.
🔗 independent.ie
Ireland signed up to the agreement in 1969. Our now former co-signatories were Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.
The UK signed up in 1968 but suspended their participation in 2003. France suspended in 1986.
The agreement meant people granted refugee status in any of those countries were allowed to travel to Ireland without the need for a visa as long as the visit did not extend past 3 months. It was for visiting relatives etc.
What has been happening apparently is that people have been using these temporary travel passes to get into Ireland where they just make fresh asylum claims. Ireland is more attractive than the countries they left, I guess. There are free homes on offer within four months of arrival after all, and our deportation system is voluntary.
It could be that some countries are granting them refugee status so they can get their travel passes, leave and come here. The full nature of the abuse isn't detailed. It isn't stated which countries they're coming from. There's probably a set list.
Apparently in the year from January 2021 to January 2022, 479 people arrived in Ireland using these temporary travel passes and then claimed asylum.
A further 281 asylum applicants arrived here who had been granted refugee status in other EU countries which hadn't signed up for the agreement. The reports don't explain how they got here or where they are from.
But that means 760 out of the 2,649 new asylum applications Ireland received in 2021 were from people who had already been granted refugee status elsewhere in the EU. That's 29% of of the total. 18% used travel passes.
Why is this only coming to light now? Why wasn't the agreement suspended before? How many are have been coming in this year?
>Justice Minister Helen McEntee said there is “evidence” that the system may be abused.
Try looking a bit harder, Helen. You'll find the whole system has been a racket for the past 25 years, but you know that. We had to wait until there was no beds left in the country before they did something as minor as this.
🔗 independent.ie
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Border clampdown: Refugees from 20 countries – excluding Ukraine – will now need visas to gain entry to Ireland
People who have been granted refugee status from a designated list of countries and who travel to Ireland will now have to apply for a visa.
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