The raison d'etre of quangoes such as the Irish Refugees Council is to facilitate claims by applicants for asylum. In many instances, these claims have been shown to be fraudulent and an abuse of process.

Consequently, people are highly skeptical of these bodies and legitimately question why Irish taxpayers money has to be used in dealing with dubious claims to asylum by what are often, in reality, economic migrants aided, as they are, by their shrill, and interested, support lobby.

In the current economic climate, hopefully, the government will have the courage and political will to closely examine expenditure in this area to see if we can get better value for our money, irrespective of what the pc culturalists advocate.

The question since the start of the "boom" that was never answered by our government was; Is the economy of Ireland there to serve the Irish people or are the people of Ireland mere grist to the economy?" Migrants were brought in by the tens of thousands, supposedly to build the boom. The argument was, that we did not have enough labour to keep up with the suicidal and tax driven celtic tiger boom.

Later, we were told, that we were depending on these emigrants to rent or purchase the very houses and apartments that they had helped construct. Now the reality is, that we have presently over 37,000 immigrants to Ireland signing on, who have no jobs and no prospect of jobs. They need dole and rent allowances to continue to rent the apartments and houses that they can now ill afford! That is something for the government with its short term policies to belatedly consider!

Who, in their right mind, would go back to countries where the minimum wages are scarcely over 2 Euro per hour. In other words, you would have to work a hundred hours to get the equivalent of one weeks Irish dole, never mind rent allowances and children's allowance payments, medical cards etc. What goes around comes around! Now, who is smart?

Paid taxes are not deposit accounts that should allow ANY worker, legal or not, to feel an entitlement to social welfare, housing benefits etc. Indeed, since you brought up the point, many immigrants are saving vast percentages of their salary to send home to their own country thus depriving the Irish revenue collectors of large chunks of VAT and other taxes that a person who would otherwise truly live here would spend.
Also, many “legal” migrants are not paying tax as they are outside the tax brackets and on minimum wage. Many of these same migrants are also availing of free education for their young families. The tax they pay would not cover this cost in 20 years.
The time has come to encourage our migrants, legal or not, to return home and not take a job that an Irish person is rightly entitled to.

but a reality to consider: Most of asylum seekers in Ireland are fake! Most, and NOT, all of them have built their application on fake stories. Some of them who came from subsaharan Africa lie about their country of origin. Most of them have no ids. It s just a mess when u look at it! What I strongly advise is to deport all fake seekers and sort out the genuine applicants!

Have to agree with Des. Approx 20% of those on the dole are EU (non irish) citizens.Those that have the relevant PRSI record here are entitled to dole and should get it but when that runs out they should not get means tested assistance. they should get help to return home. this would also save huge money in the primary schools as the crisis we had last sept in some area was due to the large no of non irish children. The education cuts would not hit so hard if these Children returned home with their parents. My daughter desparately needs some work to help her fund her college course but the part time jobs students normally get are filled with EU workers.Its hard not to feel bitter and with the registration fee €1500 from this sept and probably tuition fees at €5000 or more to come, I think many parents and students will increasingly resent EU workers here no matter how nice they may individually be.

At least the immigrant woman are way better looking than Irish women. To me that's a major contribution.

Our students and young people are becoming used to worklessness because the low skilled, starter-jobs are all taken up by willing available adults; this is bad for this generation and for our society.
There are clearly 37,000 excess migrants already; and that's not blaming them. That's just the bald facts.
Demand that the Government withdraw public funding from the immigration industry, ie those people paid to 'work' at advocating for increased immigration and for increased funding to stoke it. 'Pouring petrol on the fire'. This lobbyist role should always have been funded by employers, the only group in Irish society to receive an undoubted benefit.

Unfortunately we are now in the EU and non nationals are entitled to the same benefits as the Irish nationals.All this racist talk takes me back to the Irish in England and how some of them were resented. The English were no different to the Irish today who see other races taking over. I personally never felt unwelcome in the UK and I lived there for forty years. But then I always mixed with English people both at work and socially and integrated completely into a middle class life which would have been impossible for me in Ireland, as I hadn't been born into the business class. Ireland has always been socially divided and now it is becoming racist.

Yeah, racist blab blab bigot blab insular blab blab. Spare me. I worked in a company in Loughrea Galway until let off in January. My salary was €62,500 exactly. An Indian chap (lovely fellow) now doing same (my) job is getting €30,000. He told me last summer when he was vexed over getting no raise. I saw his pay slip.
Don't lecture me about racism and bigotry Antony, bitterness is my biggest emotion.

"IRISH racist club" Don't make me laugh.