In addition to the Ukrainian crisis creating “the biggest movement of people in Europe since World War II”, European countries (including Ireland) are experiencing a 30 per cent increase in other unexplained migration in recent months, from “within and beyond the European Economic Area (EEA)”. It is these migrants, Housing Minister Darragh O'Brien claims, which are putting pressure on Ireland's homelessness supports.
So the Irish State has progressed from claiming that migrants take up no additional spaces or resources to claiming that some migrants take up no additional spaces or resources.
Given that the State has committed to take infinity “Ukrainians”, it is reassuring that they do not displace air like their “non-Ukrainian” counterparts. Or else we would be in real trouble, wouldn't we?
