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Irish staff being replaced by foreign staff at an alarming rate.
Pascal O Donohue States on:
Morning Ireland – 10th May 2024
13-14k asylum seekers came to Ireland in 2023 plus 166,000 came on work visas. That’s a grand total of 180,000 foreigners in one year.
When you combine this with the 250k that arrived in 2022, you see that 430,000 foreigners arrived into Ireland in just 2 years.
These figures are not including Student Visas.
Nearly half a million people into our small country in just two years.
This is completely insane.
I walked into an Electrical Good’s Store on the 23rd/04/2024 and as I walked around the store I noticed that all the employees visible to me at that time on the floor and inside the counter were not Irish employees. I have been in this shop a few times and had seen some foreign employees but there was always Irish employees as well.
I mentioned this to one of the employees and he referred me to a manager.
When I approached the manager who was not Irish and mentioned this to him he told me it was “none of my business” they were entitled to work here in Ireland.
I said “Irish people are entitled to work here as well”.
So rather than get into any more of this conversation with him I have now referred the matter to the CEO in the UK . Who has failed to reply or comment to this point.
1. Is future employment policy to replace all Irish staff with employees from other counties?
2. If it is not our business should Irish people support these shops or businesses
if this is the case?
3. Is is now OK to replace all our Irish workers with foreign workers?
4. Years setting up unions to protect Irish workers and our rights and for what, this.
5. To be told it is no longer our business who works in our country?
6. Have we lost control at this point, do we have any rights left?
Hotels are definitely the leader in this form of discrimination against the Irish workforce but other businesses, factories, big bakeries, meat packers, support centers and so on are catching up with every excuse not to hire Irish people.
Stayed in a Hotel in Co. Kerry for two nights a while back, there was around twenty different employees visible over the two days.
The only indigenous Irish employee I came across in the Hotel was the lady at reception. It was frightening to see the cheek and disrespect of this Hotel owner to hire nearly all foreign staff in place of Irish staff.
Morning in the breakfast room in the hotel, there was about ten different employees at different times in and out, from countries from all over the world but no Indigenous Irish employees visible, some had little or no English.
This trend has been going on for years and is now gradually getting worse, even as far back as 2014 in fact. I was attending a Water March Meeting in the Gresham Metropole Hotel in Cork in 2014 and noticed there were five staff on in the hotel, all foreign staff and no Irish staff. I said this to the manager and you can watch the video to see what happened.
Unfortunately this is the trend now, we can be insulted at will.
Employers and foreign staff can just insult Irish people in this way as they wish. Protected by an establishment which seemingly has no interest in us, the Irish people, using every scheme to make sure Irish people can’t afford to take these jobs anymore, including free housing for Asylum Seekers, accommodation supplied as part of the jobs in the hotels and B&B’s, schemes to replace Irish lorry drivers and so on and on, numerous IPAS integration support schemes, it is ruthless and relentless destruction of our nations workforce.
The media spin reports, can’t get Irish workers, what a load of BS
Is it all part of the “replace Irish workers” narrative.
News reports of not being able to get Irish workers, we wouldn’t work in these jobs is the political and media spin. We did all these jobs fine before this onslaught into our country and workforce began. I spoke to a TD recently and had this conversation with him. He had the usual spin, which I think he actually believed himself. Irish workers won’t do these jobs. He said Irish people would not work on rubbish collection trucks, meat factories, hotels or building sites. I worked on a rubbish collection truck and in a meat factory, a night porter in a hotel and for years on building sites. Irish people have worked every job there is all over the world, why wouldn’t we work them here in our own country. This media spin is complete BS.
Irish people can”t afford to take these jobs that is the real reality.
Who could afford to take the job in the same work environment?
Creating this scenario for him.
1. Ukrainian or Asylum Seeker comes into Ireland gets free accommodation, food and all the social welfare trappings.
2. Irish person living here trying to pay outrageous rents to Vulture Fund Property Owners., no free food, no free or social welfare trappings.
Who do you think would be able to take the job?
Living at home with their parents in their late forties
There are Irish people still living at home with their parents in their late forties because they cannot afford a place of their own. While Asylum Seekers come in here and get free accommodation and even housed in a short time. It is complete discrimination against our Irish people.
Do our politicians have any shame watching this going on around them all over Ireland?
We think we are talking to Irish people and then we realise we are not.
It is becoming a very disturbing experience for Irish people to go shopping into, it could be any shop or business, in Ireland now, you start a conversation making an inquiry about a product or something with some employees in the shop and it is not until you get a response you then realise that they are not Irish at all. You have spent some time explaining what you are looking for only to find they have no idea what you are talking about as they have little or no English.
Even if they do have English when they start to talk back to you sometimes you can’t understand what they are saying. The staff member could be from anywhere on the planet. It it so frustrating, why do shop owners employ these staff members to be on the front floor of the shops, interacting with our Irish public. This can also be said for receptionists and support agents.
