Jim O’Callaghan afferma che i nuovi freni all’immigrazione mirano a ridurre il tasso di crescita della popolazione irlandese
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/11/26/jim-ocallaghan-says-new-migration-restrictions-aimed-at-cutting-irelands-population-growth-rate/
di jonnieggg
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So what do we think of this then. Ireland’s rate of population growth is too high according to the government. At 1.6% it’s 7 times the EU average and putting pressure on services and state capacity. 80% of people who sought asylum were refused, and on appeal 60 to 70% were refused.
Are they turning far right or starting to understand just how strained things have become. According to government stats it seems that the system might have been exploited for some time.
Perhaps the savings could be directed towards cost of living relief measures for those most in need.
Seems sensible
I think it’s a long-overdue policy and coming full circle as to why countries practice vetting before letting people come live in their country. Australia, Japan, the United States, Singapore, etc etc all do this.
If a country can’t provide housing and infrastructure for an existing population, then maybe, just maybe, it’s a good idea to shut the door for a minute and try to get everyone a seat first before letting more in.
I have no issue with further controlled migration, but just let’s have housing, hospitals, transport….the whole thing get up to speed before that.
Man looks at figures, sees problem, proposes solutions to said problem backed up by more numbers and proven international case studies. Can we get some more of this please?
FG and especially FF don’t exactly seem married to political ideologies, yes they lean right, but that suits the majority at the moment.
This shift is to shore up loses to the actual far right, which seems to be a bigger threat than the actual left at the moment.
It’s also timely as similar things are happening in the UK and EU.
With the on going cost of living crisis anything that puts blame elsewhere and props up party support by showing action issues is going to be a positive. This will be especially effective with people who aren’t affected by the housing crisis.
Too little, too late.
Population growth running at x7 the EU average is a problem now, and will be, for many more years to come.
The majority of those who are refused asylum never actually leave, then there are issues with ‘family reunification’, meaning one person can bring in up to a dozen more of their extended family – a major multiplier.
He’s a racist!
No human is illegal. We have enough space to accommodate all 8b peeps!
Crazy seeing the government realizing and now publicly saying things that many on here have been openly saying for the past 4 years at minimum. Also crazy seeing the gradual shift on here as those things have gone from being generally heavily downvoted to upvoted.
Supply and demand in housing and services is a numbers game. You have to tackle both the supply and demand. Now that the government realizes just how hard supply is (all the recent talk of missed targets), they’re looking at reducing the demand by reducing immigration. I have been begging for this since four years ago, but better late than never I suppose.
He’s a good effective minister.
A growing population is a problem some countries would kill to have, some countries in Europe have a rapidly aging population. If they really want to stop a growing population, stop creating jobs in Ireland. But I think policies like this will help with that. People coming back to Ireland and children not immediately immigrating after school or college will cause the population to increase as well. Maybe we should force kids to leave Ireland to see the world.
Anything but anything rather than trying to grapple the issues causing the housing crisis.
Interesting to see that he is looking to reduce the number of international students. This is the back-door through which many non-EU people move to Ireland and gain residency. But, in my work, I meet a lot of people who did this, and I can see that we receive many well-educated and capable migrants this way. Their foreign student fees are the key revenue source of most Irish third-level institutions. Closing this revenue stream will lead to a financial crisis at third-level.
The other back-door is English-language schools. This is how the majority of south americans came to Ireland. It’s amazing what an impact they’ve made in the 15 years they’ve been coming. I think they have been super successful at integrating, even though their English-language skills and possibly education levels are often worse than the third-level students coming from other non-EU locations.
Fundamentally, for everyone, I think the right to remain in this country should be tied to continued employment and financial self-sufficiency – whether you arrived to do a Masters course, an English language course, or came from another EU country. And the reasons allowed for international protection should be massively tightened – it should be temporary safety for fleeing war, and nothing else. No long-term right to remain.
Finally they are admitting that net migration is too high
Badly need to invest in infrastructure
I think reducing the foreign students makes sense if the fund universities properly. Universities use them as cash cows but it increases the accommodation shortage.
Bring in the migrants and build build build! Let’s get our population to 10 million. The state of us with our tiny population.
This is the way to stop growing far right sentiment, I’d imagine the majority of people want a sensible immigration policy based on need for those who genuinely need it while balancing it with shortages in our workforce.
Hopefully this can bring back some of those who are flirting with far right.
As its just not immigration issues discussed in these “x says no ” telegram and facebook groups, it’s the place of the church in society, lgbt rights, women’s right to choose and Irexit.
The far right will not pivot to “what about those already here, mass deportations etc and hopefully this will expose them to some.
We do not want the far right to gain traction in this country.
Ah yes another redundant “immigration” issue thats just political stage play to deflect the government’s constant shortcomings, can we move on and actually address more pressing issues like the homeless crisis and the greed of rent increases please. Don’t be fooled by lip service here people, immigration as a political issue is mere smokescreen and will never be solved as long as it functions as such
So we’re going to stop illegal immigration by putting barriers to legal immigration.
Brilliant lads, brilliant.
Let no one cheering FFG on give me any “Me granny died on a trolly with no nurses” stories in a few years.
Oh are we allowed say too many people coming in without being tarred and feathered as a racist now?
Jeepers, imagine if you’d said this out loud 2 years ago…! Funny how ignoring problems doesn’t make them go away.
Well done to O’Callaghan for this. Hopefully he follows through.
This is sensible.
It’s fair that refugees and non-refugees both have the same naturalisation criteria.
It also makes sense to only hand citizenship to people not in receipt of social welfare. If we’re choosing who gets citizenship, the minimum criteria should be that they’re net financial contributors.
Making family reunification more difficult should also reduce overall immigration.
Even with these changes, Ireland is probably more attractive to international protection applicants than the UK
Can’t wait for us to reduce immigration and still have all the same problems we had in the first place. It’s just a scapegoat.
We can solve our issues with infrastructure and hosuing reguardless of our immigration rate though more would likely help. We’re at near full employment.
The English language colleges should be a huge target.
So many people come over to learn English and end up overstaying their visas
One of the bigger ones in Dublin is run by a Brazilian guy who had a conviction for a sham marriage to get a passport