A convoy of ambulances now arriving for the migrant boat arrival in Gosport, Portsmouth Harbour. That’s on top of the police operations from Hampshire, Kent, Thames Valley and Dorset Police. The cost to the tax payer must be absolutely astronomical

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Councillors Demand Answers As Non-Irish Households Flood Social Housing Lists Irish people are waiting years for a social home. The Government will not say how often they are losing out to people who are not Irish. Dublin City Council figures, released to independent councillor Gavin Pepper, put the problem in plain numbers. Of 15,005 households on the waiting list, 6,299 were non-Irish. That is 42 per cent. Irish households were 8,706, or 58 per cent. Somali households alone made up 1,320 of the list, almost 9 per cent of everyone waiting. Non-Irish citizens are a much smaller share of Dublin’s population than of its housing queue. Louth is the same story on a slightly smaller scale. Councillor Shane McGuinness was told about 30 per cent of that county’s list was non-Irish. In the last census, non-Irish citizens were 11 per cent of Louth. He asked who actually got the houses. The council said nationality does not come into it. Homes go to whoever is “qualified and eligible.” The allocation figures were not produced. Nationally, almost 28 per cent of households on social housing lists in 2024 were headed by someone who was not an Irish national: 16,752 out of 59,941. That is the queue, not the keys. A claim that 34 per cent of Louth’s allocations since 2020 went to non-citizens has been reported, attributed to Mr McGuinness. The department has not published it. The refusal to publish is the point. If Irish applicants are being housed in line with their place on the list, say so. If they are not, the public is entitled to know. The rules were written this way. You do not have to be an Irish citizen. You have to be lawfully and habitually resident. British and EU applicants qualify, so do many non-EU residents with refugee status or permission to remain. People still waiting on an asylum decision do not. Taoiseach Micheál Martin told Fox News the opposite: that you have to be a citizen, and that citizens come first. That is not the law his Government administers. The same State has an easy-read housing application in 24 languages, including Arabic, Georgian and Somali, on the Housing Agency website since at least 2022. Irish applicants already know the form. The translations are for everyone else. Martin’s interview and that guide landed in the same week. One said citizens are prioritised. The other showed a system built to bring non-citizens onto the list. Councils say they allocate by time waited and by need. Nationality is written out, the lists are not. Irish families who have lived here all their lives are in a queue the Government will not fully open, competing under rules that do not put them first, while the Taoiseach tells a foreign audience that they do. That is the inequality. The missing allocation figures are how it is being hidden.

I had to screen record it to show you the amount that have just been brought in by the RNLI.... there are hundreds 🤬🤬. We cant carry on like this . Excellent footage by UK Sploosh on youtube