An appearance by Department of Justice (DoJ) Secretary General Oonagh McPhillips before the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Wednesday offered a window into the slow-motion vaudeville of Irish asylum management.
Since last year, the DoJ has inherited the asylum hot potato from the Department of Integration, following the latter’s spectacular collapse into its own good intentions during the O’Gorman years and Ukraine fiasco.
The official line on the changeover was “streamlining,” but in truth it was a civil-service coup d’état: a quiet seizure of the asylum brief by “grown-ups” and FFG politicos embodied by Jim O’Callaghan weary of watching policy being written in crayon and Urdu while O’Gorman was at the helm.
Now, the Department is attempting to replace the patchwork of leased hotels and repurposed B&Bs that have defined Ireland’s open-door experiment in favour of custom built accommodation in the hopes the new facilities could be less flammable politically and otherwise.
Events on the street have forced a shift in asylum doctrine at least rhetorically in the Republic copper-fastened by the rise of instability to the GFA arrangement caused by northern asylum routes to Dublin.
The hearing was noticeable in featuring FF/FG deputies at least motioning in the way of greater border control with FF young gun Albert Dolan questioning the quadrupling of asylum applicants post-covid to 12k p/a.
Aside from the technocratic ass covering, McPhillips did, however, offer one unvarnished fact to chew on: Department staffing up 20 percent in a year: proof that the only true growth industry in Ireland’s migration sector is paperwork. Coupled with a noticeable change of rhetoric and ominous fact that the majority of asylum spongers springboard from the North, it hints at a new vista opening up in Ireland’s asylum (mis)management.
The forthcoming International Protection Bill and implementation of the EU Migration Pact will act as legislative bellwethers as to where next for Irish asylum services under a now centralised DoJ.
A new centralised “Reception and Processing Service” is planned to triage arrivals more quickly, alongside expanded capacity for state-owned accommodation centres, built under capital allocations managed directly by Justice.
Expect from the DoJ press releases more biometric collection, joint Frontex /UK operations, and increased use of “voluntary return” programmes to massage deportation statistics but all in all without a wider understanding of the demographic and civilisational risk poised by the asylum mess McPhillips and co. are barely putting their fingers into the dyke.
Great to see all De Wimmin getting the BIG jobs !!!💪🤡💪
Sec General Oonagh leading HER army of more wimmin (and lgbts??) into battle (with paper and directives and procedures……and outflank any opposition with solicitors’ letters!!!).
A calculated deflection away from the real problem – legal immigration.
Irish Crimes Against Humanity
When will they be stripped of titles and office.
…so its ok now for HnM govt.of ffg to say migration is the issiue that needs to be addressed,too many fake refugees that are economic chancers,above 80%, more like 95%
You dont have a deportation problem when borders are closed or controlled,criminals are properly vetted,there are caps on migration numbers and you do not grant amnesty to all that are guilty.
Therefore the impacts on infrastructure are equally legitimate.Homeless,Housing,Hospital
Healthcare,Schools,Education,Employment,
Security,Safety,Policing,Prisons,Crime and
Courts…and Irish Migration overseas…dont
forget Aged Care and Disabled.
It then stands to reason that all victims of failed policies and infrastructure,from injury to death are properly compansated…payup time.
…180 degree turns are common to HM Harris
Martin…Abortion and Sovereignty respectively.
Will H Mc nt and Gormann turn also.?
Will all FFG members accept responsibility.?
Will legacy msm tell the truth now too.?
Will NGOs and Public Servants be charged.?
…if I had nominated and won the Presidency then I would justifiably sack n charge them all
FOR CRIMES AGAINST IRISH HUMANITY
…but they called me far right and racist
…I’ve been right so far and part of the Irish race always.
Apart from the Palestinians, I’d say every refugee in the country is a liar. Does anyone know a refugee who is an honest person?
We should have a nice little peaceful remigration rally outside Connolly’s inauguration on the 11th.
Wouldn’t trust anyone from Gaza with a 40 foot pole. They should not be here, we have nothing in common. Nothing.
# 270 asylum arrivals ( + dependants ) last week . The October tally is 20 % than September & is 5 % > than the same month last year .
The UK has found an alternative to Rwanda – gullible Paddyland .
Canada , US , UK , Oz are closing the door to Indians , Pakistanis , Orientals . Woke Eireann is the only one still offering a Cead Mile Failte .
NO COMMENT…again
Fair play that a self described foreign national
who does not like the Irish flag gets the opportunity to critisize in a whole article its faults and associations…self opinionated
…while closing off comments to everyone else
Hello, Ivaus. I presume that your comment is dedicated to my article about the Irish flag. I do not have any input in the functionality of the website; the comments must have been turned off by the webmaster. But I am happy and flattered to receive any feedback or criticism on my piece.
As per your statement of it being self-opinionated… well, it does be an opinion article after all, as specified in the title. And I suppose one must have a certain regard for one’s opinion to, at least, take the time to write it down and submit it to an outlet for publication. So you might be correct, any opinion piece, inherently, must have a minimal degree of “self-opinionatedness” to even exist as such.
Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas.