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EDITORIAL: PUBLIC TOLERANCE OF IMMIGRATION IS WANING

Workers remove 'tent city' in Mount Street, Dublin, last week. Photo: Steve
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At the end of an extraordinary week that saw Ireland and Britain embroiled in an
unseemly political and diplomatic argument over rising levels of immigration,
both governments would be well advised to tone down the rhetoric and reset
relations to something approximating normality. Today’s Sunday
Independent/Ireland Thinks opinion poll lays bare the impact of last week’s row
on the attitude of voters here — and it shows those attitudes to have hardened
considerably in relation to immigration.

After a week when the Irish Government eff­ected the removal of migrants from a
makeshift campsite on the pavements and alleys in and around Mount Street,
Dublin, and following Justice Minister Helen McEntee’s claim that around 80pc of
migrants are arriving here from Britain via Northern Ireland, the poll finds a
significant 15-point increase in public concern about this issue.

The consequences look set to become apparent when the public votes in local and
European elections that are predicted to result in a rightward swing to
candidates presenting a firm line on immigration here and throughout the
continent of Europe. Politics will probably look very different after the
elections on June 11 and 12. Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin has
referred to work the Government has to do to explain the complexities of
immigration to the public. That is one of the failures of this administration,
which is struggling with the hugely difficult task of managing an ever-growing
crisis.

Today’s poll indicates the extent of the communications shortcomings, which can
be set alongside a shortage of accommodation for asylum-seekers and a lack of
early preparedness at the International Protection Office in Dublin to meet the
challenge.

Among other poll findings is overwhelming support to send immigrants back to the
UK, the setting up of checkpoints at the Border and the introduction here of a
“Rwanda-style” policy, similar to that in the UK, to deter immigrants from
coming here.

The Government has ruled out checkpoints, and Ireland and the EU are opposed to
a Rwanda-style policy, favouring instead Europe’s new migration and asylum pact,
but that is somewhat lost on the public, a growing number of whom are demanding
immediate and increasingly strident action. If anything, there is a high level
of confusion about the migration pact — ­another failure of government
communication.




The Common Travel Area, which ensures the free movement of people between the UK
and Ireland, is the arrangement by which both governments must resolve the
issues that have arisen; wider still, agreement will have to be reached between
the UK and the EU on immigration in which Ireland will have an important role to
play.

Whether such agreements can be reached before a general election in the UK this
autumn is unlikely; it may well fall to a future Labour government there to
negotiate an agreed solution with Ireland, either before or after a general
election here.

A resolution must be found, however, because as today’s poll shows, immigration
as an issue is increasing in intensity and is sure to have a significant impact
on the outcome of elections local, national and European over the next 12
months, almost certainly for the worse.



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