Varadkar afferma che il numero degli immigrati è aumentato troppo rapidamente in Irlanda
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/09/27/immigration-numbers-rose-too-fast-despite-benefits-of-extra-people-varadkar-tells-us-college-newspaper/
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“In the interview, Mr Varadkar warned against rising populism and prejudice in parts of Irish society but conceded immigration had proved to be a huge challenge for Irish society.
“The majority of people think that the numbers have been too big in recent years, and they’re right. A country of five million people seeing its population rise by 2 per cent a year, which is what’s happening at the moment, is too fast,” he said before taking part in a debate with former Democratic Congressman Joe Kennedy during his visit to the university.”
Jesus, the lads full of opinions all of a sudden. He should get someone to look in to that for him.
Both Varadkar amd Harris had to come out with their racist dog whistles while in America because they know no Irish journalist would accept the crap they are spewing.
If what Varadkar says is true (its not) then him, Harris and the rest of the useless pricks are the problem. They actively allowed this to happen, they deliberately created the mess, they and their cronies are profiting massively from this over the interests of Irish people.
The way this man talks about issues in the country as if he wasn’t leading it for 6 years is infuriating
All of a sudden he has a pair of balls now that he can’t influence fuck all. A complete fucking melt that man is.
Shows him up for how spineless he is
It’s true what he says about our unsustainable population growth, but he oversaw that and was well aware at the time, he just didn’t have the stones to actually do anything about it
He’s not wrong. Something prevented him from voicing his opinions while in power
no they haven’t. the population in general has risen too quickly because they stopped building places to live. the problems in this country is never their (the govt) fucking problem. classic.
Was this only intended for the American audience?
It’s almost like blaming immigrants/foreigners for the housing crisis is viewed as being easier/more convenient than building houses. But that can’t be right?
If only he had any power to have done something about it over the last 13 years that he’s been sitting a the cabinet table /s
Is anyone else sceptical about Fine Gaels messaging on immigration now, given the timing of it close to an election?
Maybe i’m overly cynical but they’ve been in government throughout the migration crisis. They rolled out the biggest expansion of the work permit system in the state just this year after last year’s record immigration numbers.
Their actions and messaging just don’t match up. I think they’re doing this purely for political theatre in the wake of the elections because they know a huge number of people are worried and pissed off about it.
They did similar in the wake of the local elections with asylum seekers. Completely mismanaged the asylum system, and then in the last months before the election, they only just began saying they would start being tough on illegal migration and deporting people without a right to stay.
He always did this commentator bit. Like he’s detached from it all and is making observations. Frustrating.
Correction: we haven’t moved fast enough to upgrade our infrastructure to accommodate increased population the economy needs.
We just don’t move fast enough.
I thought we got rid of the burden of having to listen to this c*nt
Ah but there will still be lunatics who believe Ireland should let anyone and everyone in regardless of their intentions, history, age or skills.
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2023/05/16/no-plan-to-cap-refugee-numbers-as-taoiseach-says-co-clare-blockade-not-necessary/
FG seem to universally accept that immigration is too high. I’d love if a journalist actually questioned them on what their proposed solution is rather than the debate being completely hijacked by how bad the far right is.
Will they cap the number of Ukrainian refugees? Pull out of the European Convention on human rights to reduce IPAS applicants? Reduce visas to non-EEA countries or look to reduce free travel within the EU?
If they don’t address any of those issues nothing will change.
The housing crisis isn’t the fault of immigrants. Fact.
High levels of immigration exacerbate the issue of housing shortages. Fact.
We need solutions to housing and building more houses simply isn’t happening fast enough and no party has any serious suggestions for how to speed it up besides increasing the number of houses they’re promising in manifestos. Therefore we need to reduce pull factors for immigration in the short term until the housing crisis is addressed.
If internet explorer was a person
This time last year he said
>I think when we look back on this period of history, being a small country that took in 100,000 Ukrainians is something that we should be proud of and will be proud of
How can he criticize a situation he directly caused.
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Typical Varadkar, gaslighting the nation once again.
The sooner he fecks off to obscurity, the better.
Interesting article [here](https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41279116.html) from Nov 2023.
In it Varadkar
>warned fellow politicians that “more than ever” they must understand the effects that their words have when talking about the issue of migration.
>said it is important that politicians have the “courage” to make the case in favour of migration to the State.
He pushed for migration to be more accepted. He didn’t want to be seen as anti immigrant and now he’s responsible in part for the increase in migration.
Laughable, considering FFG were viciously denying any claims like this just 12 months ago. A comment such as that would have you tarred as far right.
Sinn Feins collapse has the political establishment worried and they’re pivoting now, making noises to placate the electorate before the election.