L’opposizione critica Tánaiste per i commenti che presumibilmente collegano i senzatetto all’immigrazione
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/12/31/sinn-fein-and-labour-criticise-tanaiste-over-comments-linking-homelessness-to-immigration/
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>It is understood that representatives of the Local Government Management Agency gave a presentation to a Cabinet sub-committee on housing earlier this month during which they outlined the increase in the number of people from outside the EU who are presenting as homeless.
>The briefing said that people from outside the EU presenting as homeless had increased significantly since the Covid-19 pandemic, with the number of non-EU people in homelessness rising from 971 in January of 2022 to 3,114 in June of 2025.
>The briefing said that people from outside the European Economic Area accounted for 27 per cent of homeless households by June of 2025. Ministers had been told at the meeting that people arriving from abroad were starting to impact homeless numbers.
There has to be a link, is that controversial?
Our population is increasing very quickly.
Are we still in the denial stage?
Harris isnt wrong and the sooner the opposition start actually admitting the sinple truth the sooner issues can be addressed in a meaningful way to the benefit of everyone.
Some stats per this example [Dublin Region Housing Executive ](https://www.homelessdublin.ie/content/files/Homeless-update-63-May-2025.pdf?v=1750772334) report, which breaks down where new applicants are from:
– Irish 40%
– non eu 37%
– eu/eea 23%
Harris would know better than anyone, his party caused it.
Opposition parties are a joke
SF literally can’t get out of their own way. This is flat earth thinking. FFS government only recently had to tell councils to stop accepting people who aren’t habitually resident onto their their social housing lists. EoB and several others really should be in the SD’s or Labour.
Although it’s partially true, it’s like blaming an office running out of desks because the company is growing and requiring more employees. At the end, it is and has always been the government’s terrible or inexistent planning, this was expected long ago and there was ample time and money to prevent the disaster. Immigration is the scapegoat being used for those in charge, and it’s becoming fuel for the far right.
Something something, 15 years of not building enough housing stock
I think all the multinational companies that set up shop here are a bigger factor but noooooo, think of the money.
Can’t be criticising the big companies.
*”You heretic”*
54% of the homeless in Dublin are non-Irish.
How can immigration not be linked to it? Its just a statistical fact.
Housing provision is a simple supply and demand equation. By blaming inward migration the government deflect responsibility for their abysmal performance of coordinating supply of housing with population growth. Because the Irish population are having fewer children (for a variety of reasons), increased immigration has balanced population growth. We’ve been on a very predictable population trajectory since the 1950s, yet still housing supply has lagged behind. There is no excuse.
At the same time we’re getting messaging about decreasing population size being a problem for sustaining future work forces, which contradicts this sentiment of over population that can’t keep up with housing supply. The government once again deflect blame for not protecting an affordable cost of living or quality of life for its citizens. When its a luxury to raise children on top of extortionate living costs you know you’ve failed your citizens. We’ve been sold out to corporations looking to extort us as customers rather than treating us as hard working citizens that deserve to be afforded the chance to build a life outside of work.
Social life, family life, recreation, all suffers at the alter of capitalism.
It obviously has an impact on homelessness figures.
But the real cause behind the housing crisis is a feckless government that just doesn’t give a shit. We can move heaven and earth to deal with Covid, but we can’t do a damn fucking thing to address the housing crisis.
How many years has it been since “we can’t solve the housing crisis overnight”? Has it been a literal decade already?
>Republic’s annual population growth of 1.64% stands at about seven times higher than EU average
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/08/17/states-population-grew-by-almost-90000-last-year-eu-figures-show/
It’s not that he is linking it to immigration, it’s that he is saying they don’t have a housing right here which is not true and he has been called out on. So does he not understand or is he wilfully misconstruing what he was told? Depressingly I think the evidence increasingly points to the former. Regardless his party have been at the helm for all of this happening and have done nothing whatsoever to mitigate any gaming that might be going on by cohorts moving here to exploit any weak spots in housing/social welfare policy
Harris is saying , “a significant number (accessing emergency accommodation) don’t have a housing right in Ireland.”
This is false.
You cannot access emergency accommodation if you do not have a right to reside, and access to housing list (which isn’t even a legal requirement but councils enforce it anyway).
This “presenting from outside the EU” is also deliberately misleading language. They are referring to IPAS leavers who have either received Stamp 4 or leave to remain. These are not just presenting from outside the state. They have been here for a considerable period of time, having gone through the IPAS system.
If you arrive in this country from anywhere (EU or non EU) and you are an Irish/EU or non EU citizen and you look to immediately access emergency accommodation on arrival, you will be refused and told to return to where you have arrived from. Yes, even Irish citizens will be told this, although on appeal they’ll probably slip through.
This is an absolutely false narrative from Harris.
…and that’s why they’re in Opposition. The public are way ahead of them.
Are we all far-right now, father?
I mean there has been a pandemic and ureland has stood up to the plate to take in people affected by war. Ita just another thing to band together and prove ureland can do better than other countries.
Is it not a factor?
He’s playing to the crowd who spoied their votes in the election. He knows there’s some votes to be won there..
The minister for justice did not go far enough with the changes to citizenship. I was in Canada 9 years before I got it. People are coming here to get an EU passport as the time is so short.