From Suzanne at the Irish Inquiry
WHAT THE IRISH TIMES WON'T TELL YOU
These youths probably don't qualify for the jobs plus scheme yet. Some youths have to be on jobseekers for at least four months first. Its generally 12 to 24 months though for most Irish people under 50. The same rule does NOT apply to asylum seekers and refugees. There is no wait period for them. Employers are getting between 7 and 10.5 grand over a two year period for taking on those who DO qualify for jobsplus, and so this means the government IS incentivising taking on and retaining foreign staff over Irish staff.
Some Irish do qualify earlier for jobs plus (such as travellers and people on one parent payments) but as you can see clearly the government's is funding the replacement of Irish people in the workforce in our view and we see this strategy replicated in the healthcare industry. Recruitment companies are paid up to 15 grand per non national healthcare worker they recruit from abroad (we for this Information from a recruitment company employee).
This also conceivably gives recruitment companies an incentive to not carry out proper background checks (which are nigh on impossible anyway).
There appears to be a strong push to get our young people to engage in a mass exodus from Ireland.
Meanwhile, the government goes on about the healthcare system being propped up by foreign staff (we wouldn't need that if we were not importing hundreds of thousands of people) when really we have lots of doctors and nurses being trained here with tax payer money and then being pushed out because the government isn't employing them or paying enough for them to live on.
Also, this is somewhat about lowering everyone's wages (importing cheap labour). Furthermore importing foreign workers creates a brain drain in other countries and harms those nations. India has a healthcare worker deficit of 3 million. Yes, they're short healthcare workers to the tune of 3 million. That's almost half of the population of the ROI.
Additionally, asylum seekers get accommodation, all utilities, food, medical cards (and sometimes free travel too) regardless of income. From November new rules will apply meaning they have to give a small contribution (as little as 15 euro per week). Also, Ukrainians get the ARP rent payment.
Meanwhile, Irish people's backs are to the wall paying for all of the aforementioned.
