L’elevato numero di richiedenti asilo costituisce una minaccia alla “coesione sociale”, afferma Jim O’Callaghan
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/12/16/high-asylum-seeker-numbers-are-a-threat-to-social-cohesion-says-jim-ocallaghan
di EnvironmentalShift25
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Another day, another interview with a FFG minister talking about how hard it is to solve the problems they created themselves.
Big Jim is getting ready for a heave against Martin. He knows what way the wind is blowing
FF chasing the votes of the far right by lashing out at the vulnerable. I’m shocked.
No shit.
Do we even have an integration program?
It was actually a very good podcast and a bit of a dishonest title from Irish Times.
Most measured argument about the Asylum/immigration issue I have heard from a senior politician in a long time.
3-4 years ago a minister saying such a thing would have been unimaginable.
In fact, it would have been branded racist.
And who set that system up?
The headline is focused on asylum seekers for some reason (clicks?)
18,500 asylum seekers into a population of 5.4 million people doesn’t seem nuts.
And it’s tiny when compared to other migration modes – 2023 figures has asylum at 4.8% of people coming into Ireland.
We could stop asylum in the morning and it wouldn’t make much of a difference (Banty and the like might shed a tear)
>In 2023 we processed 270,000 applications for entry into Ireland or other immigration services, including:
>167,000 applications for visas – 61.8%
>33,000 applications for temporary protection (related to Ukraine) – 12.2%
>23,000 citizenship applications – 8.5%
>**13,000 applications for international protection – 4.81%**
[https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-the-taoiseach/collections/migration-the-facts/](https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-the-taoiseach/collections/migration-the-facts/)
So is thousands of homeless children
Just letting the loopers set the agenda… cool cool
The bootboys laying out their political agenda earlier. O Callaghan is like a cobra just waiting to strike and then out comes the poison. Why do people not integrate because the government has made fuck all of an effort.
Well Jim, maybe you should come up with a method to improve the process where people are assessed for suitablity for permanent residence. It’s not like you’re in government or anything.
Political establishment and media were calling Sinn Fein anti-immigrant for saying the same thing less then a year ago
He’s dead right, finally some action in this regard
FF twerking to the right.
Let’s replace “asylum seeker” with “chancer” the term is more adequate for 95% of them
Better late to the party than not to show up , Martin’s reign is over he’s been holed beneath the water line so big Jim is going to be front and centre in next year’s leadership contest
The headline is correct, but it’s the packs of racists that are the problem.
It’s one of those hard decisions to make. I’d be all for taking in everyone we can but at the same time the far right are not going away, we’ve seen right across Europe that if we continue in this way those wankers will get more and more support and over time eventually start to have an elected presence in our government.
I’d happily put harder immigration restrictions in place when the alternative is having those fascist pieces of shit ever having a chance at power in this country. I have real reason for it too, I live in Coolock and literally had those cunts rioting outside my front door.
America, The UK and France too are responsible for major chaos across the Middle East and Africa, and wars, regime change and instability create refugees. There’s almost zero consequences and we’re told we have to keep calling them the good guys, and then we blame the refugees for wanting to find peace somewhere else. Its a fucked up world.
Great to see mainstream politics having 0 issue with the adoption of dogwhistles and not so subtle racist rhetoric the moment it’s convenient, to avoid facing any admission of their own failures, stupidity, incompetence and greed.
Bit of a clickbatey headline from the IT on this.
Yeah no inequality and government lack of delivery are the real threat.
At least we know now FF/FG intend to deliver nothing again but try to blame brown faces for it this time.
Really? Brown faces are pushing DART+South West past 2030 ?
How, government is running a 10 billion surplus…