Migration policy must include 'compassion and common sense aligning' - An Taoiseach | Newstalk
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- Taoiseach Simon Harris said we need to have an 'honest and truthful' discussion about what Ireland can offer migrants going forward.
The arrival of so-called tent villages around Dublin city has brought the topic back to the fore with several removed in the last two weeks.
Figures also show the number of asylum seekers increased by 95% in the first four months of this year compared to 2023.
The State has struggled to source adequate accommodation for the new arrivals.
Taoiseach Simon Harris told The Pat Kenny Show such a situation around tents will not be allowed to take hold again.
"What we're going to do is make sure that never again is there a situation where official Ireland can almost turn a blind eye to the development over many, many, many months of an encampment," he said.
"When I became Taoiseach it became very apparent to me very, very quickly that the approach from many agencies was far too siloed.
"There's only one Ireland and there's only one Government and I'm the head of it.
"My intention as Taoiseach now is to coordinate and pull people together in relation to this."
Mr Harris that doesn't mean tents won't arise in parts of the country but it is "different when tents arrive for a relatively short period of time versus what was allowed to happen in relation to Mount Street".
The Taoiseach said Ireland's approach to migration has to change.
"The stage that we're at in relation to migration has changed," he said.
"We need to move from the emergency response to a much more sustainable model.
"Irish people are full of compassion but what they're also full of is common sense.
"What they want to see when it comes to migration policy is compassion and common sense aligning.
"They want us to be honest with people who are coming to this country about what we can and can't do."
'We have to be truthful'
Mr Harris said the State has to be truthful in what it can provide.
"We can absolutely provide shelter but not necessarily housing for people who come here," he said.
"We can absolutely use State land and provide people with access to sanitation, and help people who are fleeing persecution, but we also have to be truthful in what we can do.
"It's about having an honest, it's about trying to have an honest and truthful discussion in relation to migration".
The Taoiseach said while Ireland benefits from immigration there are many ways to come here.
"If you want to come economically to work here, please apply for a work permit," he said.
"International protection isn't for that purpose.
"What we're already doing and what we'll continue to do on an almost daily basis is look at all of the levers that are at the State's disposal in terms of making sure we have a sustainable migration system".
Mr Harris said this approach includes faster processing times on applications and effective deporations.
Ireland and UK
On concerns about migrants coming from Britain via Northern Ireland, the Taoiseach said the answer is closer alignment with the European Union.
"What we are in space of is aligning better with the European Union, making sure that we work on a European level in relation to this," he said.
"Since Britain started talking tougher on migration, all that's actually happened is the number of people coming to their country illegally has increased.
"What we need to do is make sure that we have an effective system.
"I know factually... that faster processing times are the way [to go].
"People who have a right to be here we want to say, 'Yes you have a right to be here'.
"But the people who don't have a right to be here, they need to be asked and ensure that they leave much more quickly.
"That's what faster processing gives you," he added.
Mr Harris said the number of staff at the International Protection Office (IPO) will reach 485 this year, with an initial 'Yes/No' decesion within 12 weeks for so-called safe countries.
#immigration #ireland #news
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CALL THE ELECTIONS NOW
Shinners have the same policy on immigration.
We didn't vote you in as Taoiseach either Harris 🇮🇪
He is afraid of an election because no one voted him in I don't remember him winning his job fairly, how can you speak for people who you are out of touch with and don't listen to any of us WE WANT AN ELECTION ASAP NO MORE EXCUSES YOU KNOW YOU ARE ALL FINISHED THE MINUTE YOUR PEOPLE HAVE THEIR SAY !!!
The electorate never votes for the Taoiseach directly. That isn’t how it works, it’s never been how it worked.
@@mrhoppy_9724 LETS FIX THAT
@@mrhoppy_9724 That's how it should work...electorate should be allowed to vote for a leader not someone who bows down to their EU masters easily... Charity begins at home.
Irish people don't want mass migration....ASK THEM...HAVE A REFERENDUM 🇮🇪🇮🇪
Voting against our imposed plans is a threat to our democracy
Why can't we have a referendum? It makes no sense
A referendum isn't worth a jot ant more as the Irish govt hasn't got a say in it any more any way., unfortunately one of the previous referendum on the Lisbon treaty handed all the power over to Brussels so decisions like immigration are controlled by another hand now.
We need an Immigration referendum. And repeal the Lisbon 2 treaty.
Quite simple. Because they know they wouldnt get the result they want @@NewHandle_
Newstalk traitors 👎👎👎
No PASSPORTS
NO accommodation or State benefits
Restrict NGO funding
Give it a go
We have been infiltrated and invaded by a very evil regime.
Absolutely, no passport or identification means no asylum, benefits, return ticket.
To meany of they're family work for ngo government (mason) selected not elected will never go with that
Especially that "large one" on 6. 1 news every other night handing out tents
here here
Simon is soft in the head , all talk and no action .The situation was allowed get totally out of hand and Simple Si is the face of a New Ireland , a windbag with no credibility whatsoever .
Simon is another puppet of the globalist. Like the rest of the western countries. All puppets installing the totalitarian control over the masses.
No life experience.
If he grew up in my house he'd have learned what it is to be Irish.
Fact is ,he's just another West Brit.
Agree with the sentiment, but stop calling these traitors by their first names. Harris is not our friend.
NO MORE , FACE THE IRISH PEOPLE AND CALL A GENERAL ELECTION NOW 🇮🇪
He is running scared mate
He has every town and villages ruined needs to go now
@@conniecollery5351
And the rest of the snakes aswell , we need to keep the momentum going and the marches going , it would be a huge result if all the non establishment party's and independents get massive support in the upcoming European and local elections 🇮🇪👍
The Shinners have the same programme...they would have half of Palestine over here tomorrow.
This is pure nonsense. The government shouldn't be stripping 3rd world countries of their medical staff and builders. Train enough Irish people and pay them enough. It's simple.
Agreed 100 per cent. Where are the young irish nurses? why they cannot buy a house in this supposed to be the richest economy on earth right now???
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How come so many Filipino nurses are coming to us instead of training Irish people surely the country that trains these people should retain this talent
@davidkeith9015 exactly. And if you check the Irish Medical Organisation list of Medical professionals struck off or censured, the list of foreign names is lengthy. Makes me wonder how qualified some of them are.
@@bahooniesLack of language skills and cultural understanding play into these stats also.
All these people coming from England aren't fleeing war!!!
Sorry you mean France then England
They are fleeing a non EU country to another EU country what's wrong with that EU started it you are the EU why are you complaining
@@PROTESTVOTEINEUROS. I'm with you out with the lot
France not uk, if it was the other way Ireland would be laughing.
Give it time
Rubbish! Denmark and Ireland had the option of opting out of the EU migration pact ,these are traitorous policies
Simple Simon is not up to the job ....
He's not fit to work, gathering shopping trollies for aldi, tesco etc. Its a bit of a conundrum how he got elected, he barely got elected...but how he became taeseach.....its just unbelievable, and proves it doesn't really matter who is taoseach
He knows exactly what he's doing, stuffed brown envelopes have been dished out, follow the money ALWAYS
@@EireFirst2024 he's been well rewarded already.
Vote all these parties out of office!
Klaus Schwab's tea boy!
Let the Irish people decide and call an election now!
What party do you suggest should replace them?
I guess any party that has "far right" on it on Google @@mrhoppy_9724
The government is doing a decent job. Migration is a problem not only in Ireland but across Europe. My daughter worked on a banana farm in the outback of Australia in order to be able to work and holiday in Sydney. She has a degree and secured employment within a month. When she returns to Oz in December she will have to work on a fruit farm for 6 months.
@@timduggan2127Exactly because the E.U wants open borders and are deliberately destroying our Countries
@@mrhoppy_9724 real nationalist parties!
Definitely don't want to be in the EU migration pact.
It’s our own civil servants that are the problem they do nothing. Everything is “someone else’s job”.
“Pact’s” more like traitors coming together to foist their criminality on the ordinary people under the guise of “legality”!
@@tadghsmith1457 False. Recent no no released reports. All sections of government departments warning of issues with the yes vote. Political response ? Ignore and keep from releasing to after the referendum.
No to migration pact ireland needs to wake up the country needs to stand up to the government
2 millionaires in a NewsTalk studio having a discussion on how to solve the problems of the country, don't wash it for me anymore..
Only waffle to get past the elections nothing will change their way , however they can not stop what's coming . Viking CELTs will end tolerance
Briliant point! And this the problem. Posh kids called themselves 'well educated' think they are better than us to decide. Get the full government down and the media with them!!!!
Never confuse education with intelligence
2 millionaires yes, but also two fathers. How can they not worry for their childrens future?
@user-re7wt2yc8b because these elites don't live as the rest of us do. They have the financial resources, political power, influence etc to shield themselves and their families. Its why there are no tent camps in Simons or Pat's neck of the woods.
It's a compassionate Country and Harris wants to help people. . Unless you're Irish
They're very compassionate; with our money!
Irish people don’t want to see compassion. We want to see the border laws strictly enforced without exceptions and without emotion.
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If he thinks that the people of Ireland have compassion let us have a referendum on migration
Don't believe a word
Simon is just a career politician that never had a real job in his life. He is just so out of touch with ordinary regular people
Bingo
Please stop calling these traitors by their first names, they are not our friends.
I I I I and I again its all about I I I
People have indeed common sense.... Government doesnt! If they had 85% of those arriving here illegally would have been put on a flight back to somewhere already....
Agree, I worked in Korea/Singapore and if you didn’t have your paperwork in order you sent back immediately-on the next flight!
So annoying the way he espouses. about people who are genuinely common sense people and do not want to see the country overrun with alien cultures.Yes Simon we are compassionate but we are not fools.
No relocations. No legalisations. No work permit. No medical card. DEPORTATIONS MASSIVE AND UNCONDITIONAL.
This wimp couldn't solve a problem come on now wake up
Absolute waffle he still keeps mc Entee in her position she fails at every turn and o gorman stepping back hiding in the shadows.
It’s more civil servants not doing their jobs.
Compassionate to everyone BUT the irish
Now they say that Britain and Ireland are underpopulated so there is room for immigrants. Really? they been bombarding us with the idea we have an overpopulated planet so no having children because we put too much pressure on the planet; do not consume; do not contaminate; It turns out that now we can hold the migrants when the irish people cannot have a house and there 14000 families living in shelters??? Are you kidding me???? There is room for foreigners but not the irish natives who have build this country and the infrastructure with their sweat???
FF FG and SF will never get my vote again. They have really messed this one up and its going to take a long time to fix.
The greens , people before profit, social democrats, are as bad if not worse , all establishment parties, stop voting for all of them
What about the Greens? They've been the proverbial tail wagging the dog for the past four years!!!
Glad SF is been exposed
@@JonnM the greens are the worst of all , slapping on tax after tax on energy, making living a misery, they are shutting off our energy food and the deindustrialization of Ireland
These men will be used against us in the future - one way or the other
They already are. Look at what the mayor of derry says about irish people.
How is she even mayor of derry
👍 agree
@@EskiLdn what did she say?
Chants of Sharia For UK comes to mind...
But Roderic O'Gorman tweeted in various languages re. own-door accommodation in Ireland within months - now the Irish govt want COMMON SENSE? They called anybody who pointed out that that was a recipe for disaster a racist! Where was the common sense then..
And they still have no cap on numbers, insane.
Well said.
Failed asylum seekers fleeing from UK 🇬🇧 persecution and since today last checked that Nigeria is a very safe country and is not in a war or ravaged by war and never knew that a Nigerian is a Palestinian or Somalian 😂
YES 👍
Or a Yemeni
In my opinion, it is easy to talk, but can you follow through on helping the genuine asylum seeker's having to leave their countries' war in Ukraine and Gaza. I, like many Irish citizens, have empathy and compassion for them. I am typing this from my hometown, Derry Northern Ireland 🇮🇪 x ⚘️🌈🌎🙏
@@elizabethburns3126Ukrainians are coming from Western Ukraine and other countries. Because our useless government offered them so much money and benefits... The Israelis want the Arabs to leave Gaza and the west bank.
There are over 2OO million Nigerians thats only a fraction off poor countries that want to come here.whats your plan to stop mass migration of Africa into a population of 5 million struggle to house its own.ger real..young 3rd level leaving because can't get housed...your full of it.
A waffler and spoofer
The plan is....
Oh, wait.
Is that our problem that they can't house their own?
In a few years there will be 400 million Nigerians according to population forecasts. We will be overrun with scammers.
Do not deal with undocumented. Your parties had no compassion for the Irish homeless and still dont. Housed 100000 immigrants and left 10000 Irish homeless.
Don't forget the tweets from.O Goeman in many foreign languages requesting immigrants.
Processing is slow and getting slower, and those who do not qualify still get to stay.
Call for an election now get the government out now they do not care about the Irish people they all are not fleeing persecution
And them what?
@@damienbryan2832 then what? Run a referendum to leave the EU, that's what!
Deportations.
Why 'ask them to leave' ??? You said that several times. This rhetoric is problematic in of itself.
Deport them all if they are illegal, it's what the Garda Immigration Bureau used to do; not so long ago actually.
don't ask them to leave tell them and if the do goders dont like it they can go with thhem
Yes.Asked them to leave!!!
Is 1 in 5 people here being non Irish "common sense"?
When u include people born here, where both their parents are foreigners, it's closer to 30% and rising... Funny how our mono cultural political and media class never mention this🤔
@@hector7187 crazy...
@@hector7187 and in such a short period of time. The clock is ticking very fast.
@@hector7187 Because the main stream media are traitors and fully behind this mass immigration nonsense and will never presentt it is a negative light by presenting facts and figures that show the problem to be bigger than is currently portrayed.
Skirting around the problem and the solution
Ireland needs to adopt an Australian model on immigration with immediate effect
I have compassion for the irish people, it's their country they suffered starved and were mudered, and ultimately freed it.go home this is not it.
What a ridiculous man, he wont last long
Common sense left with the woke government.
Still avoiding the main problem as in thousands arrived here with no documentation. So how on earth do you find out who they are or if they have criminal records. The Irish people have had enough of this agenda. There’s billions being spent on this and it’s our taxes that are paying for something we don’t want. This chump will have the shortest tenure in history.
They don't care about that, it's not part of their agenda.
It seems what the Irish people want does not really matter.
I do so hate this governmt
The situation is a farce...
Amazing that he only mentions it now. He sat and remained silent until now. The population has almost doubled in the last few years. 1 in 5 people in Ireland are supposed to be non Irish. If they have not applied correctly to come to Ireland, they should not be considered for asylum. Also, how can people arrive in Ireland without ID or passport, and how can they be allowed to remain. Common sense would suggest if the NGOs continue to replace tents which have been removed by the Irish State, there is a serious lack of intelligence both in the NGOs and the State. VOTE THEM ALL OUT IMMEDIATELY. The money wasted by these NGOs is staggering. The only one coming out in profit is the tent suppliers. Who does manufacture and or supply the tents , they seem to supply other countries as well. Follow the money.
Leave the EU now
Change the government with your votes, and rebuild this country
He is not the Teaoiseach he was not voted in by the ordinary people off Ireland
None of the western leaders were voted in by the people, even vondershit wasn't voted in
Why can’t the Irish people have a referendum for their say
We need King Bladwin, knight Templars type men back again on earth.
Because the referendum would be a landslide defeat of the present government's woke policies of mass immigration and the spending of billions every year looking after them.
Vote independent everyone..
But not Alan judge
We cannot provide an infinite amount for an infinite number for an infinite time....is this the ''common sense '' piece ?
The fact nobody talks about that as the most basic understanding foundation of what this problem is, shows the lack of competence in government and the coddling of European minds.
Start providing 5000, apprenticeships for each trade needed to build houses for IRISH people. I repeat nobody should be sitting in their village wondering about who the government says have “the right” to be in your village. Harris is glib and under qualified for the job.
Apprenticeship exams should be done on social housing sites and the examiner can fix any issues they find. Win win for everyone.
I have compassion for MY children . They deserve to be able to buy homes in their own country. Its increasingly difficult to buy a home in Dublin with inflated house costs. Why are these people coming here to a tiny country on the edge of Europe? Why are they all young men? How are they integrating with the communities? I don't see that happening. What wars are they escaping? What about the Irish women and children how are they supposed to integrate with 'men' who have decended upon them? Living in office blocks etc. Have compassion for the Irish people, Stop destroying Irish lives!, our forefathers fought long and hard for. We need a referendum NOW!
We had to move out of Dublin because of house prices but to be honest, the only places that I could ever dream of affording would in some dump filled with these "asylum seekers".
Where's your compassion for your own people? For young people who cannot afford to buy homes or to have children despite doing everything right, having gotten degrees and worked hard in tax paying jobs only to end up living in their childhood bedrooms of their parents houses or if lucky being fleased in rent!?? Not to mention our own homeless, disabled, elderly....
Compassion now means compassion for foreigners that is EU policy, it is time the Irish get used to it.
Time to do your job asap Minister Harris which is to serve the Irish people. 75 % of Irish are concerned over mass immigration. Communities everywhere have been protesting for months and have said "No More". Why are you and your party ignoring them ?
3 people sent back out of 500 in past few months by the Irish government all talk zero action
Very few of the present lot will be sent back. The asylum seekers know this, they know Ireland is incompetant with sending back failed asylum seekers and all they have to do is brazen it out and eventually gain an Irish passort and social housing.
How's about close the border and deal with what is all ready here
NOT A SINGLE VOTE FOR THESE CORRUPTED POLITICIANS
People coming from. ENGLAND OR france are not fleeing war!
And an acceptance that allowing thousands of undocumented into the state is a significant national security issue.
You are utterly niaive to believe we are immune to terrorist threat when virtually every other European country has suffered attacks.
Putting a Canadian in charge of our national security is another threat. People around the world think it's a joke that any government would do something like that.
WHY AREV WE ASKING PEOPLE TO LEAVE? WHY CANT WE TURN THEM AWAY, STRAIGHT AWAY IF THEY ARE ILLEGAL, WHY ARE WE CONSTANLY BENDING OVER FOR FOREIGN STRANGERS
This is the EU/UN woke policy that we have sadly signed up for.
compassion is something to practice in your personal life, you don't just get to take public money under false pretences and waste it on hypothetical humanitarian globalism projects
Vote them out next election
EU lapdogs
yeah, it's not even the eu's fault. ireland opted in to the migration deal. just a blame game
@@henrygrant9650 were the Irish people consulted about this "deal"? No they were not! That's the sort of thing there should have been a referendum on!
@@snakeeyes3733 blame the irish government who opted in, not the eu. no one forced us but them
So there all working hard, almost every day,and if your application fails you will be asked to leave,and we don't want tent cities popping up but we will provide tents😅
Let me understand this, if 5000 Somalian come over they be granted refugee status and be allowed to stay if 2000 afghans arrived they'll also be allowed to stay, 2000 Sudanese arrived they will be allowed to stay. I guess what I'm getting at is if 30000 people arrived from unstable countries they will be allowed to stay... year in year out.
That's definitely a common sense approach.
This man will never answer a question does not care about irish people
Leader of the country after a 15 count 😅
Crazy isn’t
Ya, the answer is still no Simon!
Simple solution to this, let the people decide, call a referendum on immigration
Our government & media are complicit in all of this.
And Taoiseach’s must be elected.
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Not a word about the decimation of our tourist market and the effect of a much bigger population is having on the health service.
No, no negative news from the main stream media who are in thrall to the liberal and woke elites.
Letting o gorman build housing estates all over the place without planning permission is also wrong Simon.
what about compassion for the irish natives what happens else where outside of irland is nothing to do with us thank you
No, we are now a giant NGO and everyone can apply.
Irish people demand a referendum. This is not fair, this is not just,
This has to stop.
Our country that was so hard won is being destroyed through the destruction of the irish people. Just as was said in the proclamation of independence. We cant let this happen. Clann na heireann, rise up again and be heard 🇮🇪
Call an election
I can't trust a passive aggressive! Bye bye harris & Co yous had a chance and yous absolutely ruined it properly beyond compare and repercussions to be seen down the road.
Asked to leave is a joke is this what the leader of a country is saying
Ask the people what they want... Have a vote. Why not run a country where the people are actually happy with you. Why are the government always "fighting" with the people? Aren't they supposed to work for us?
No, they work for the EU/UN now.
Read the comments & get your answer ,the people have risen 💚
Absolutely NO to the EU impact pact
There's only one Ireland and you're destroying it. Woken up this morning at 6am by a foreign girl screaming down on the street, her phone after being snatched by one of them.
Is there any level at which immigration is too high? 10, 20, 30 million in the next five years? Surrendering immigration polices to the EU and refusing to come to an agreement with our only neighbour is great for the government to shirk its responsibilities on a fundamental requirement to be a sovereign state. Just blame the Brits and our EU obligations and wash your hands of it. Job done.
You summed it up very well, that is exactly what is happening!!!
What about the Irish homeless?
They are invisible to our politicians. When was the last time you saw a headline in an Irish newspaper about housing the Irish homeless?
The Irish don't count.
Waffle waffle waffle
Sounds like Simon takes a fast talking pill before each interview or speech.
Was thinking the same thing, I wonder. Who is behind the drug trade here. Since 2 superintendents caught, GSOC officer Ombudsman arrested all for working side by side with the crime Lords here in Cork and Dublin for the last 35 years, who protects who.
Snow
Always planning and considering, but never actually doing anything.
He's the greatest waffler we've ever had and no action to back up the waffle
No, we have had a long and proud tradition of wafflers in this country.
If Frank Spencer & Victor Meldrew were somehow moulded into to one ridiculous entity , you would arrive at Simple Simon .
You have allowed Ukranians in without any checks!! So is this going to be a RACIST processing process?
Don't worry we will let everyone else in without checks as well, this is after all Ireland we are talking about.
Pull down the government now. I remember governments falling for a lot less. Now the EU are telling us what to do from a centralised EU government
Thats it, the government here is beginning to resemble those parliments we had here under British rule, they are just a face saving exercise.
We need a system like Denmark, who are opting out of the EU Immigration Pact, and are much stricter than Ireland when it deals with Immigration. We do not have a system in Ireland that works for everyone, our system is BROKEN, BROKEN, BROKEN.
We have a system that works for the EU/UN and that is all that matters.
No politician asked me if they could waste my tax payments! Maybe a referendum is the answer? Whatever you're government is spending is money that belongs to the people, not the government.
The government thinks that tax payers money is their money.
How about letting them set up their tents outside politicians homes and near their kids schools !!!
How about handing these invaders cards with the ADDRESS of a home they are expected in including media Traitors.
What about sorting out the department of Justice and start deporting people who have committed crimes and who are not genuine asylum seekers?
According to the government's liberaL and woke policies, there is no such thing as non-genuine asylem seekers, it does not matter from what not at war country they come from or how many safe countries they have passed thorugh to get here.
Compassion is what got us into this mess to begin with 🤦
MIGRATION LAWS
Must include what the People of Ireland want, NOT what the Politicians want to do for the Riff Raff in Brussels.
Ireland needs to Reclaim it's Laws & Regulations from that Administration over in Brussels/Strasbourg=BERLIN.
HARRIS is Paid by the Irish Taxpayers to Work for Them & if he doesn't want to do that no hard Feeling just go Home.
How about lower the taxes by discontinuing useless agencies like Bord Bia and Fáilte Ireland, that give no value for money?
Your government expenses in administration are at over 90 billion a year!
REFERÉNDUM FOR INMIGRATION
Its actually frightening how out of touch he is
There all in for a big shock soon
State land belongs to the irish people not the goverment to give away to non irish people or aney one else
They are giving the whole country away so I would not be too worried about state land.
Why are people seeking refuge invariably young men ?
Why is this never asked ?
Hundreds bussed in to areas with no criminal database as admitted in Dept of Justice reply !!