Working asylum seekers to be asked to pay State supports contribution - Taoiseach
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- Working asylum seekers will be required to make a financial contribution towards their housing and other State supports under new Government plans.
Speaking to Newstalk Breakfast from the Fine Gael think-in event in Tullamore this morning, Simon Harris said the move will help “maintain social cohesion” in Ireland.
Currently, asylum seekers living in State accommodation are entitled to €38.80 a week, while children receive €29.80.
They also receive meals and a medical card.
Asylum seekers are entitled to work in Ireland from six months after they first applied for international protection - and must pay income tax on the wages they receive.
The Taoiseach told Ciara Kelly that they may soon be asked to contribute towards the supports they receive, in addition to the tax they pay.
“I believe now is the time to say that if you are an asylum seeker in Ireland and have an income - now I am not talking about people who don’t - if you have an income and a right to work, you should pay a contribution towards the services you receive,” he said.
“I would like to see Government make that decision because I think that helps maintain social cohesion.”
Mr Harris said the change was not meant to appease the far-right - insisting he was working to help “good, decent people around the country” who have concerns around immigration.
He said he has always “fully accepted” that extremists are not the only people concerned about immigration in Ireland.
“My only upset is that [the issue] has been hijacked by people who steal our flag and assault our Gardaí,” he said.
“The reality is we should always differentiate between people in communities who have legitimate questions and want to ask questions and we should support them.
“What I'm saying to people though is this, I know the Irish people are compassionate when it comes to migration - they know the benefits of migration, they see it in their hospitals, they see it in their shops, they see it right across our country.
“But Irish people also have another great trait and it's called common sense and when the migration policy doesn't pass that test, they're not very happy.
“That's why, when I became Taoiseach, we've taken a number of steps to try and inject common sense.”
The Taoiseach said he was not seeking to tighten the rules around immigration - but was looking to implement “a better application of the existing rules”.
“I mean, there are already a lot of rules in place and I think what people want to see is the rules enforced,” he said.
“They want to see, if you have a right to be here, you get a quick yes, you get supported, you get integrated and you pay your contribution to Irish society, as many people do and I'm grateful to them for doing it.
“If you don't have a right to be here, you get a quick no and you get asked to leave and if you don't leave, we’ll ensure you leave more quickly as well.
“So it's about having a fair, firm, rules-based system.
“We have made good progress and we need to continue and politicians of the centre like me can't get off the pitch here and allow this space to be occupied by the extremes.”
The Taoiseach also discussed the Apple tax windfall, childcare, his plans for the Budget and the upcoming election in his Newstalk Breakfast interview.
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If the money that was used on "visitors" had been used for Irish people there wouldn't be 1 in 5 children in poverty, or over 14,000 homeless, or the elderly choosing heat or eat, or children awaiting scoliosis treatment... and the list goes on.
Don't asylum seekers who are working pay taxes like the rest of us?
Asked to leave??? Shouldn't that be TOLD to leave?
I have a radical suggestion... how about the Irish government actually taking care of their own people first?
@@annamariapurcell4454. Yes and doing their f'in job.
It boils my blood. People are getting more and more squeezed everyday and then you have people who don't work get given brand new, A-rated houses and can afford to go on foreign holidays. And worse again, most of them don't have an ounce of gratitude.
😢😢❤❤❤❤ nice one 👍 😊
I have to run an economy I have to run a society too. This from a guy that is filling every village in Ireland with single males of military age! This from a guy who couldn’t run a bath.
Remember these folk could hardly build a bicycle shed, install a copier , or build a hospital to meet timescales and/or a budget ...and no one will be found accountable...at best it will be the 'system'.
They don't even know who signed off on the shelter.
@@annamariapurcell4454 I bet they don't ...!!
@tomgreene1843 Conveniently, they do not.
@@annamariapurcell4454 A small builder would know but not a government of such eminent sophistication combined with a public service possible laden with modern woke qualifications speaking truth to power!
There will be some scuffles at d trough now it's loaded up again I can't wait for d explanations
They should NOT COME
How this unelected tea boy is Taoiseach sums up the pitiful state of Irish politics. He is an empty vessel driven by narcissism. "I have to run a society"....
Support a society, not "run" a society. Society isn't a bath 🛀
He wouldn’t be able to run a bath without a RUclips tutorial video showing him how to turn on the taps 🤬
The Taoiseach is never directly elected and never has been. Educate yourself so you don't look daft in the future.
@@davidkavanagh189Well maybe they should be.
@@copevortex Maybe but I really don't see what magical difference it would make. you'd still have all the same people in the party
How can anybody listen to this liar&his woke party
Yea mean they are getting eveything for FREE , even a HOUSE ,and now he dicides he MIGHT ask them to give something for there rent and there keep ,,this is unbeievable ,no wonder they can all go around in there Cars , laughing at the Irish People ,,
It's 100% a bad joke, the two tier system
We don't want his excuses he opened the borders a monumental disaster for Ireland and all done without the consent of the people of Ireland
They should pay for their flight Home
Working asylum seekers? What? Are they not economic migrants?
No, it's referencing the people who have been granted asylum legally and are now working. There's apparently over 5k asylum seekers who have been granted leave to remain, who are still living in direct provision!
Yes we are economic immigrant with high education and we work and we claim social benefits and free housing and we have businesses in our country. 😂😂😂😂😂😂 I 😂😂😂 😂
Some asylum seekers working full time, having take home pay of 500e per week should pay for their accommodation, heat and food provided free.
Its called buttering us up.
It is Holly pre elections headlines an insult to our intelligence
You'd think there's an election coming in the next year.
@Steve30x Not soon enough probably March unfortunately
Butter isn't supposed to be healthy 🧈😂
@@Steve30xI think it'll be sooner. He'll give pensioners an extra fiver in the budget and call it thinking he's Oprah!
He is full of bull. There is no real support for communities. Immigrants are better treated. He has an extra 13.5 billion now to tackle the Irish homeless.
Oh look...some flying pigs!🐖🐖🐖🪽
PEOPLE DO NOT BELIEVE A WORD OUT OF YOUR MOUTH SIMON!!!!
THAT IS YOUR PROBLEM!!!!
Is the bike shed old news. No accountability
Should be a lot of people sacked for that
Germany seems to think they can close borders and deport. So does Sweden. Think we might do the same?
He has to get the far right in any which way l am far right because l didn’t agree with the school textbooks full of Irish propaganda on our Irish culture but l am still called far right because 14.500 lrish men women and children homeless going up every day
I'm with you.👊👍✌
Same here
Trying to make up the shortfall in the disastrous decline of tourism 😢
Tourism is gone there's no room all d hotels are full of immigrants
Out of the hotels, out of the country, withdraw benefits, off home with them, and the tourism industry might improve again.
You can be sure any social welfare allowance s will well off set any contribution these guys will pay
Simon Harris looks like a parody of a politician from a Father Ted episode ... this country is getting worse, a true banana republic
Metaphysically our country and culture is dying....the likes of him are the cause of this.
Pensioners shouldn't have to pay property' tax
No one who owns their home should. Speculators and vulture funds should though.
Stop using the word Far Right, in trying to tar them with Thug's
If they're allowed work which the shouldn't be unless vetted , which you cant do without papers then why wouldn't they be paying rent bills and tax like natives.
Yes, this is a bizarre situation, when I lived abroad, I had to pay that country's tax. An asylum seeker is not an economic migrant, so why do they equate the two? Any illegal immigrants who came here without merit should be sent packing.
Liar!!
A great country, so great, the government is giving it away 🤦🏻♀️
An opportunity missed to secure our own future and reduce poverty.
Ireland won't forget being spat on by this government
Playing by the rules ?
He just keeps talking a load of crap
🇮🇪NUREMBERG2.0 🇮🇪
Needed badly
# SPREAD THE WEALTH. Some of that Apple tax money should be given to the people who in turn would put it back into the economy. A very simple and positive action by a government especially with a general election coming.
"Working" "asked to contribute"
What if they say "No thanks"
Tell them they're paying their way like everyone else or go home 👍
They won't do that but if an irishman did it he would not get welfare
@@noelfleming3567 I can't believe they're not already paying their way, working, most likely in the security industry, very few Irish people doing that job now, it's well paid so they shouldn't need long term support
Mass exodus incoming
Please eliminate property tax for pensioners 😢
For everyone except vulture funds. And USC. Remember Kenny said property tax on the family home was immoral, then introduced it.
Who "Asked" them to come here?
Are the Irish government central banks in Ireland buying gold and silver
Big corporations hire most of their staff from outside Ireland, not Irish people.
Example, Amazon.
Don't care none of them should be here to begin with .
Tax relief for workers who carry this country need to be looked after
Where are o gormless and mc nttee these days?
Counting the cost of the bike shed
Of hiding children and giving them puberty’ blockers
eusn there baths to make pubey blockers ,or entertaining peter thatchell
Why are we and our children who may have to emigrate pay for strangers to stay here.
A little bit of their own money back......what a joke....and where is the test of it going,?
He must mean foreigners
The best way to put people off living in Ireland is the 40% income tax rate.
Rent is over 50% of income.
Living on 10% income .
Banks say we should be saving 20% income.
🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
That's what we get immigrants don't pay tax free full accommodation so don't be expecting them to contribute to our country I've seen them in post office with western union slips so figure it out money for more to come here 😢😢
Asked!!!!
He sounds as weak as he looks 😂
False economy, Big corporation's pull out and watch out.
If the government are serious about helping hard working tax payer's.
It's simple anyone earning under €15,000-no income tax.
€15,000 to €25,000 10%
€25,000 to €40,000 15%
€40,000 to €60,000 20%
€60,000 to €80,000 30%
€80,000 upwards 40%
People would be able to spend their own money in the economy then.
How long is he saying this rubbish
ASKED being the key word!!!
“We take far too long to deliver key infrastructure” which parties have been running this country for the last century?
AHAHAHAH THE ECONOMY IS IN RECESSION SINCE JUNE
If they don't want to move out of the direct provision centres well they can pay for it , come down and see the cars that are parked outside these places
She's against the government helping people because she makes a nice big cushy salary from Newstalk
Must be a election around the corner 🤔
I would like some of the 13 billion Apple money please
news talk is part of rte they say nothing bad as the goverment paying them . o and the all love kids relly relly love kids
He thinks he is part of society 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Taxing taxed tax taxed
Bye
Delays for visa for apple employees, why didn’t the just come over on a ferry from UK. That's the easiest way. Just ask omguannuh.
This is total optics. A pittance
Us are all w
😂😂 Free STATE GOVERNMENT OF 26 😢 il say no more been Irish Republican
He really does care about family carers and disabilities but he has to do alot more but it's good to see his young kind and reliable please stick to ur word
Are there any normal people in these comments or are they all just china and russian bots?
Newstalk, the Irish pravda.
Mini closet case