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    Nearly €1bn spend on refugee accommodation in first half of 2024
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    Nearly €1bn spend on refugee accommodation in first half of 2024

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    2. Sornai on

      Cape Wrath Hotel Unlimited, which previously traded as Citywest Hotel and is controlled by Tetrarch Capital, was the biggest recipient between April and June and received payments worth €19.1 million.
      Mosney Holidays PLC, which provides accommodation for international protection applicants in Co Meath, was paid €14 million.
      Two separate businesses called IGO Emergency Management and Total Experience Limited were paid €13.3 million and €9 million respectively.
      A firm called Brimwood Limited, which lists Seamus McEnaney, former Monaghan GAA football manager as a director, received €10.1 million in the quarter.
      Guestford Limited, which previously traded as the Red Cow Moran Hotel, was paid €8.4 million, while a firm called Allpro Security Services, the Galway-based company, was paid €6.6 million.
      Companies that operate a number of well-known hotels in Ireland made up the remaining top-paid firms during the quarter, including Travelodge, which received more than €7.9 million.
      A firm owned by the Dalata Hotel group, which runs the Clayton and Maldron brands in Ireland, was paid €6.2 million in the quarter, while Windward Management Limited, which operates well-known venues such as Farnham Estate Hotel, Harvey’s Point and the Radisson Blu Hotel at Dublin Airport was paid €5.8 million.

    9. jeperty on

      Spending a fortune on accommodation for refugees to private companies and individuals, because of lack of interest in developing forward thinking housing because it hurts a voting bases property values. Ireland

    14. FloppyDonkeyTrick on

      Its so weird that hotel owners are often friends or associated with elected officials. So weird!!

    15. SnooChickens1534 on

      Everybody needs to realise that this is an investment for our future , we’re gonna make the money back once they all start becoming doctors and engineers, and then they’re going to be paying our pensions.

      The irish people really are a soft touch . The government just keeps bending over taxpayer’s and we keep taking it . Anyone who complains is called a bigot or a racist

    17. shakibahm on

      It’s about 3000 bikesheds or 1000 security huts.

      These officials will not let anyone fix this problem at root, it’s just too much money for their friends.

    18. NewFriendsOldFriends on

      Let’s just not forget that that money didn’t go to the refugees but to the Irish businesses closely aligned with the government.

    19. _LightEmittingDiode_ on

      So, where to from here? Genuinely? The most pro-immigrant person should be able to clearly see this is not sustainable in any metric, and has shown not to be in other countries who’ve had similar or higher rates now for longer. We need to have mature discussions about what we can and cannot provide, and our limits. Because we are at them. The European *youth* in places like Germany are now the predominant hard-right voters. The fact the government is only now touching rhetoric (still in their non-nuanced takes) is interesting, just as all our services and basic necessities such as housing are at a disastrous breaking point. We cannot save the world, but we could at least start by only dealing with the genuine asylum seekers-which by the governments own admission, are the vast minority of cases here.

    22. cat-the-commie on

      Why in God’s name isn’t the government just using those funds to build permanent housing instead of temporary?

      Oh right, it’s because it’s not popular within constituents, so we now instead need to run this clown show of putting people in the bloody Ritz or something

    24. Due-Communication724 on

      Assuming this hits 2 billion by the end of the year, **just on accommodation** is an absolutely insane amount of money, considering quite a few entire departments expenditure is actually less than this. For example defence is 1.25 billion or tourism/culture/arts/sport 1.2 billion

    26. SalaciousSunTzu on

      If you think it’s bad now, this is trivial compared to what’s coming and it’s honestly fcking frightening how unprepared and unaware we are.

      We’re the only native English country in the EU and with population explosion in Africa/Middle East/South Asia alongside climate issues like temperature and failing crops (already happening), we haven’t seen anything yet.

      The Netherlands just said it wants to exit the EU migration pact and other countries are tightening up. This makes us even more attractive since we reward document dumping and asylum shopping. We can’t handle numbers now, going forward we’re fckd

    27. Birdinhandandbush on

      If you’re a refugee with nothing, I can understand supporting you. If you are a working age adult, who starts a full time job in Ireland, then you’re no different from any other Irish person and should get no more than any other Irish person. Sure, initial support on arrival, but once you’re in the same boat as the rest of us what fucking logical sense does it make to give you more and keep giving.

      At some point where is the oversight on spending. Oh yeah, we’re the folks who spent 300k on a bike shed.

    28. rmp266 on

      Fucking insanity. I’m not talking “IRELAND IZ FULL”, I mean the costing, the lack of value for money, the waste. Cunts are buying/building hotels now with the sole goal of renting it out to the government at eye watering rates, with no annoying actual customers to deal with, with like, y’know, rights…. and expectations. Just filling a hotel with refugees, throwing them some slop three times a day, clean the beds and towels maybe once a week. No restaurant staff/bar staff needed, porters, receptionists etc, cut the cleaners chefs etc way down. And charge the government full peak season tourist rates, WHICH THEY FUCKIN PAY

    29. Augustus_Chavismo on

      People here called me bigoted for saying the asylum system is being intentionally used to facilitated a massive transfer of tax money into private hands all while making the housing “crisis” all the more profitable.

      It’s only going to get worse from here and the in group will not feel the consequences and will only have their greed met. This is why we’ll never see deportations being adequately served. Abundance of labour, abundance of renters, and demand for housing far above supply.

    31. Dependent_Survey_546 on

      Its much less the refugee’s falt than it is the hotels charging stupid amounts of money to provide accommodation.

      Irish hoteliers greed, its a tale as old as time.

    32. Alarmed_Station6185 on

      Yeah it’s a pure con to line the pockets of anyone with establishment links and a spare, empty property

    33. Competitive_Fail8130 on

      This shows the scale of the damage to our tourism industry. That could have been tourist spent money on accom and the local communities / businesses would benefit.

      Housing refugees is a big business and even having 1% could be revenues of 20million annually.

      Now we know why the government support open borders, it’s a lot of brown envelopes. FG / FF need to be put out !