Noel O Flynn interested in a final Solution
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse for “The Government” maverick (translate fucking eejit who speaks without thinking) Noel O Flynn decides to reignite that other tit Leo Varadkar’s plan for forced repatriation.
“It’s time for the government to look at a package where people are paid to return to their own countries. Unemployed non-nationals here would prefer to go home but the difficulty is our social-welfare system is one of the most generous in the world, so it makes sense for them to stay. We need to offer them a generous package to return home.”
O’Flynn said the “front-loaded” scheme would initially be costly, but that in the long term it would save the government a significant amount. If all of the 79,077 foreigners on the Live Register draw social welfare for a year, the cost to the exchequer is almost €840m, he said”
After a local election where Mr Flynn’s party Fianna Fail got their asses kicked and result’s in from Europe suggested a pretty large swing to the ultra-right politics of the 1930′s you would think that the guy would have had some common sense, nope its the loose cannon politics of the Mallow Road again.
I spent 8yrs out of the country a decade ago where I was welcomed with open arms like the many hundreds of thousand of Irish who had to leave in the 80′s, we are a nation of forced emigre’s through unemployment in cycles for the last 40 years and I find it unbelievable that this guy would even bring up this subject.
Back to the dark ages, eh?
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I wonder did he start by saying “I’m not racist, but”. It amazes me how racist this country is, but the racists don’t see that they are.
A well off woman told me that she wouldn’t send her daughter to a certain school because there were a lot of foreigners in the school. This was followed by the usual, not that I have anything against them, one of my best friends, etc. malarkey.
How often I’ve listened to complaints about table staff too. “They always get my order wrong”, “I can’t understand them”, “They can’t understand me”, “Why can’t they give the jobs to Irish people”. Would that job be good enough for them or their children? No it wouldn’t, as during the boom, we downgraded these jobs. We’d get “them” to do that work for “us” while we could pursue careers in property development, banking, construction and codology.
Sorry for this just turning into a rant, but when members of government spout shit like this, it only amplifies the problem.
As a someone who has been “a foreigner” living in Ireland for 14 years now and knowing a bit about recent Irish history it always confuses me when I hear Irish born people giving out about imigrants. In general comments refer to “them” taking their women, jobs or social welfare money.
Those comments confuse me seeing that I do not know a single Irish person who hasn’t either worked and lived abroad for an extended time or is directly related to someone who has.
Besides the blatant hypocrisy of this proposal is enough to make you want to bach head together.
Yes, Ireland has a fantastic social welfare system when compared with other countries. But this is driven by one of the reasons why I live in this country; people still care about each other. Social welfare systems in other countries are planned and managed by automatons who can only tick boxes and are unable to think for themselves.
The immigrants where welcome enough when the country needed them help provide the cheap labour needed to build the Celtic tiger. No-one has the right to tell them they should leave now that we are in a recession..
Not only is this literally a BNP policy, it is terrible thinking economically. O’Flynn is advocating a policy of deporting some of Ireland’s most skilled workers who are least demanding in wages – exactly the type of labour we need to stay internationally competitive. Demographically, economic migrants are also mostly young, which an aging society like ours needs to continue to attract if the state-provided pension system isn’t going to collapse.
In fact, this is such bad economics that it might just be implemented by our beloved govt!
It’s a sorry state of affairs that this is the kind of political policy that TD’s expect will provide a solution to the current economic climate.
Does Mr O’Flynn not realise that the idea should be to use any remaining funding to educate and create employment for any unfortunate individual who has fallen on hard times in our country.
To pay off the hardworking idle workforce of a self created bubble would be a true admission of complete failure of governance.
With regard to Leo Varadkar’s proposals, they did not involve forced repatriation. His proposal was entirely voluntary.
They proposal was that foreign nationals who had paid PRSI but were now unemployed would be able to receive a certain number of months PRSI upfront in a lump sum if they wished to return to their home country. Such a scheme would be a voluntary scheme, and is similar to schemes which are in France, Spain and the Czech Republic.
Where you agree with the validity or otherwise of such a scheme is one thing, but to deliberately misrepresent it is, is poor form.
I assume this applies to foreigners from the EU. I’m a South African living/working in Ireland. If I were to lose my Irish job I’d be forced to go home pretty sharpish and at my own cost. I pay PSRI and all that but have very few rights in Ireland once my employment is terminated.
This scheme seems a bit odd though. Even in voluntary form it sends a poor message. In my 4 years hear though I’ve never been accused of taking Irish jobs. Only ever read that in the media.
I wonder what’s his solution for the 100,000 or so have been on the dole for 5 years or longer, ie. those who didn’t get jobs when the going was good. Surely they’re the priority as they’ve been sapping tax payers money when they could get jobs.
I love ‘Unemployed non-nationals here would prefer to go home but the difficulty is our social-welfare system is one of the most generous in the world, so it makes sense for them to stay.” — paying for them to go home just means they won’t be paying for the flight home when they’re coming over to sign on! What a farce!