MONEY MONEY MONEY. Loads of Money!

[dandyspencer]

It would appeat that the Government have loads of dosh lying around, just not for the Irish!

Why is Mayo the dumping ground?

SEVENTY EIGHT Burmese refugees are due to arrive in Ireland next month after being selected for resettlement here under a United Nations scheme.
The group of 16 families, who belong to Burma’s Rohingya minority, left their country in 1992 and have been living in camps on the Bangladesh/Burmese border since then. They will spend six weeks at an orientation centre in Ballyhaunis, Co Mayo to prepare them for permanent resettlement in other towns.

Ireland is one of 19 states, and one of only nine EU member states, that participates in the UNHCR-led resettlement programme.
Each year it accepts up to 200 refugees

A further 84 refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo are expected to arrive in Ireland in May. The department said that those selected fled the Congo’s South Kivu region between 1996 and 1998 and have been living in refugee camps in Kigoma in northern Tanzania since then. Of the 57 children in the group, 32 were born and raised in the camps.

All refugees who are admitted to the State under the UN programme spend six weeks at the National Refugee Orientation Centre in Ballyhaunis, Co Mayo, where they take language lessons and are taught how to go about essential tasks such as opening a bank account and enrolling their children in school

Open up a bank account for what?

BENEFITS?

SCHOOLS?

We cant even provide our own kids a good education!


Why are we one of the 9 Countries in the World to do this? Surely we are too small and too poor to continue this madness?

Why not some of the bigger and richer nations?


http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...867938522.html

[zakalwe1]

in all fairness, they are genuine refugees. have you seen what the burmese govt is doing to its people?

[dandyspencer]

in all fairness, they are genuine refugees. have you seen what the burmese govt is doing to its people?

But why us?

It is widely excepted we are one of the biggest nations in trouble, we are cutting back Millions, and yet we are still expected as one of the 9 countries in the world to provide shelter to others!

Why not the UK, France, Germany, America etc.

[zakalwe1]

But why us?

It is widely excepted we are one of the biggest nations in trouble, we are cutting back Millions, and yet we are still expected as one of the 9 countries in the world to provide shelter to others!

Why not the UK, France, Germany, America etc.

i'm sure they are taking their fair share also.

[McEavelli]

But why us?

It is widely excepted we are one of the biggest nations in trouble, we are cutting back Millions, and yet we are still expected as one of the 9 countries in the world to provide shelter to others!

Why not the UK, France, Germany, America etc.

This sort of rabid jingoism is gaining popularity in this country and I predict a serious problem here before the end of the year.

We are having our rainy day, and we deserve it. That's it. Our government, incompetents as there may be, aren't trying to kill us daily.

[Clanrickard]

Because we're 'ere, and theres nobody else.

(Zulu soundtrack plays in background)

Sorry but that is rubbish. There's 200 of the most wretched people on earth being taken in. Hardly a major outlay. We take in 200 every year it isn't a deluge.

[Staropramen]

First off,"Ireland is one of 19 states, and one of only nine EU member states, that participates in the UNHCR-led resettlement programme". So we are not only one of nine countries who participate in the programme.

Secondly,these people are genuine refugees. Id rather take these people in instead of certain groups who masquerade as "asylum seekers".

[leonanl]

Rohingya people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Oblivion]

have you seen what the burmese govt is doing to its people?

Have you seen how far away Burma is from Ireland?

"Because we're 'ere, lad. Nobody else. Just us."

lol - brilliant film.

[Metric]

First off,"Ireland is one of 19 states, and one of only nine EU member states, that participates in the UNHCR-led resettlement programme". So we are not only one of nine countries who participate in the programme.

Secondly,these people are genuine refugees. Id rather take these people in instead of certain groups who masquerade as "asylum seekers".

Agreed. I wouldn't have a problem with genuine refugees coming in at an agreed level proportionate to our country's size. Its the countless tens of thousands of illegal scammers that have gotten in through our governments incompetence that has people at their wits end.