https://www.businesspost.ie/news/dublin-building-planned-as-wetherspoons-superpub-among-sites-being-converted-into-refugee-housing/
di Anxious-Wolverine-65
https://www.businesspost.ie/news/dublin-building-planned-as-wetherspoons-superpub-among-sites-being-converted-into-refugee-housing/
di Anxious-Wolverine-65
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>”Existing **players** in the refugee accommodation sector”
Completely normal.
This is fucked up
One less Wetherspoon’s is always a good thing.
Only matter of time……I dispise private sector profiteering off human misery
I’m having a hard time understanding how so many new accommodation centres are being created so quickly. The same question repeats, though forgotten, before we had a crisis of people entering this country requiring emergency accommodation, we had a peak homelessness crisis where almost no new buildings were being converted for homeless people. There was no homeless accommodation “sector” to speak of – the refugee accommodation sector is now booming?? Make it make sense. I can’t buy a house, I cant afford rent. Could any of these buildings been converted to apartments and contribute to easing supply? Theyre stuffing this country with more people and less accomodation. It IS a zero sum game. It feels like a kick in the teeth each time I read this stuff. And I’ll soon be leaving cos of the housing crisis.
Keep working your life away paying a fortune in tax to afford a hovel in bum-fuck nowhere while people who, based on the usual figures, mostly, shouldn’t be here, are given somewhere to live in the city centre, free food and bit of pocket money that we pay for while also running up the price of everything else…using our tax money. It’s gone past the point of being incompetence.
Refugees, or asylum seekers?
It’s a big club…..and you ain’t in it.
All of our tourists are going to love our array of phone shops, barber shops and asylum seekers hanging around the city centre.
If anything, should the planning agencies & Government not be trying to make this area a bit nicer? It’s an absolute unsafe dump for as long as I can remember
Hardly a shock we have a growing far right problem when we can build accommodation centres for immigrants faster than we can build houses
Using the term ‘players’ makes this sound like it’s a genuine career, and it’s being acknowledged that it’s a money maker.
Making money off of people’s misery and flaunting it like this as a fuck you to the rest of the general populace is some pretty astounding arrogance. I’m almost impressed.
And I apologise for posting content that would upset or make anyone angry this evening, but I can’t believe more and more of our taxes, resources, space and physical property is going into a system that I know many many people are taking advantage of. There will be plenty of people coming from truly desperate situations that we should help and I’d like us to be a helpful, hospitable country in that sense – but I feel this is becoming completely in appropriate. It’s pointless living here if you can’t afford to achieve any sense of independence. Watching people come in and get accommodation, food and a bit of spending money to live in the city centre. And we know so many of them are taking advantage and the place of people who may truly need our international assistance, it’s all too strong a kick in the teeth. I can’t change it. And get called a racist for having even the slightest qualm with any of it. I can’t. I’m out.
Economic migrants. Nearly all men. From countries that are safe. Just shit. Ireland is a soft touch so can’t blame them from chancing their arm. I’m not far right. Common sense has been thrown out the window for profits. We as a country are welcoming but we are being taken for a ride. They throw away their passports and say there from somewhere they are not. The UK is a kip. That is are future if adults don’t get control of the situation.
The fact is we can’t afford to buy a home and start a family. The only way to have a big family is to go on the dole and bang out the kids and hope u get a council house. 99% of us wouldn’t dream of it. So birth rates are declining. 4 or 5 million of us and billions of Indians and millions of Afghans and Pakistanis. They have a home land. We have a little island and our selling our future generations. Who’s ever been Bradford, Birmingham Manchester London and honestly said it yeah I’d like Ireland to be like this. Not racist to love your country and your people. Sorry for the rant
If you are blaming
Refugees for the profiteering
You are looking in the right place
Don’t look at our established
Political class
Don’t ask why Ireland’s young
Are forced to leave
Year after year since the famine
Don’t ask
Just keep on blaming
And nothing will change
>Brantview Limited, which has listed Lucan-based businessman Derek Scully as a director, is part of a network of six companies that have been involved in Ukrainian and IPAS services.These firms have received more than €65 million from the state for the provision of services. Brantview Limited is ultimately controlled by Damien Bateman, while a firm called Willow Fusion Limited, owned by Sandra O’Neill, has a 20 per cent stake.Silverdale Properties Limited has also told the council it plans to use an industrial warehouse on Herberton Road, Dublin 12 as an IPAS centre.Directors of the firm, Elizabeth Kelly, Joseph Carton and Eamonn Heavey, are also already involved in the IPAS sector through a separate firm called Coolebridge [Limited.In](http://Limited.In) recent weeks, new accounts for Coolebridge Limited show it made a profit of more than €1.6 million in the year that ended March 2024. In that 12-month period, it earned €5.9 million from state contracts.
>refugee accommodation sector
An entire sector now.
Refugee housing, so we are building slums.
As the government has scrambled to source beds, annual state spending on refugee accommodation to private sector suppliers has risen from €186 million in 2021 to **€1.8 billion**
Well done in the recent election folks.
Well, it would be better than a Wetherspoons superpub.
What happens long term?
Do they house them in the city centre simply because they can command more rent per refugee from our taxes? We already are taking far more than we can accommodate, and for the unfortunate ones that aren’t taking advantage of the refugee system we’re currently running we can’t accommodate in Westmeath or something? Crazy.
In 2024, we spent more on International Protection than:
• Garda Síochána
• Water
• Secondary Teachers
• Primary Care
• Public Transport
• Health Capital Spending
• Older Persons’ Services
• Other Non-Voted Expenditure
• Road Networks and Road Safety
• Mental Health
• Childcare and Related Programmes
• Long Term Residential Care
Yea, I’m going to look at the refugees at least to a significant amount, and to those who profit from housing them also – we are in the middle of a housing crisis and accommodation, food, spending money is being doled out to outsiders pouring into the country daily while I can’t achieve a modest modicum of independence in the city I grew up in.
[Ireland’s Public Spending Explained 2024](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://publicpolicy.ie/downloads/papers/2024/Ireland%27s_Public_Spending_Explained_2024.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjog9_q07KLAxXWQ0EAHQ8tN10QFnoECHwQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0rr0C355IbsZM_vhzSMUf2)