Secondo uno studio, la maggior parte delle persone in Irlanda sopravvaluta la portata dell’immigrazione
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2026/01/15/most-people-in-ireland-overestimate-the-scale-of-immigration-study-finds/
di TeoKajLibroj
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>ESRI survey participants estimated 28% of the population were born abroad, compared with official figure of 22%
Wait, it’s 22%? I’d have guessed 15
Considering the fact that the census was 4 years ago. Are they probably more or less correct?
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Is Jack purposely leaving out the date the 22% figure was collected? My understanding is that was in 2023, the survey results could be smack bang on the button
The figures on this stuff always start to fall apart when you start to interrogate them. We see here that 56K people come from India.
And another article states that “about a fifth of nurses working here, 18,464 of 84,213 in 2024, trained in India.”
See: [https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2025/08/14/indian-health-workers-in-ireland-any-nurse-getting-ready-to-come-here-will-now-be-warned/](https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2025/08/14/indian-health-workers-in-ireland-any-nurse-getting-ready-to-come-here-will-now-be-warned/)
So 32.59% of Indians here are working in healthcare.
The reality is that the country would absolutely fall apart of it were not for immigrant labour holding the place together.
The anti-immigration brigade haven’t a clue and are living out a LARP fantasy cultivated by their addiction to toxic social media and dick head influencers.
This is a strange article, 22% is still mental. Where is the housing and where are the jobs?
Jobs may have been plentiful a few years ago, but not anymore and housing has always been a shitshow.
Most people everywhere overestimate the scale of immigration because it’s constantly used as a wedge issue.
Report in the UK shows immigration is wayyyy down yet Reform and farage are saying it’s the worst it’s ever been🤷🏻♂️
It can’t be both Nigel!!!
We have historically had a huge amount of emigration *from* Ireland over the years, most notably to the UK, the US and Australia. People returning from there with children born to Irish parents, or with spouses from those countries, will feature very highly in that 22%.
We also have a lot of multinational companies in Ireland, which will attract international staff.
“People guessed around 43.8% of people born outside of Ireland were availing of social housing compared to the real figure of 6.1%.” https://www.thejournal.ie/immigration-figures-ireland-6926698-Jan2026/
(Via Richard Chambers / Bluesky)
I probably underestaimated it.
Well unfortunately for those doing the ‘study’, we can see for ourselves.
I would caveat that I don’t have huge amount if faith in the statistics. Our migration statistics are based on extrapolation of surveys, as we don’t have any sort of population register in this country (which most continental countries would). There is some effort to move towards using data from administrative systems like social welfare and PPS numbers etc. but I’m not sure if we know how acvurate that will be.
As for the “official” population estimates leveraging the census, it’s well-known those aren’t great, with in particular a very big undercount of working-age males (a high proportion of whom are probably migrants).
“Scale” to me implies they were off by quite a significant factor. 28% Vs 22% (which is not adjusted for the last 4 years of demographic change) implies they were quite on the money with the scale.
This would be a non issue if the government would just BUILD HOUSES. FFS !
A lot of the real problem with immigration actually comes from poor conditions/protections for the immigrants. We don’t give them proper access to work and they are easy for employers to take advantage of. This actually drives down the overall quality of working conditions in many jobs, which impacts everyone.
This whole notion of *jobs the Irish won’t do* comes from the working standards of these jobs being reduced in line with the minimum acceptable standards employers can get away with offering, usually to immigrants or other marginalized groups.
That seems like a pretty decent estimation average by the public to be honest. And it looks like the real number may be higher than 22%.
I’m sure a lot of people see a number and remember it but if you are going on observation it’s pretty difficult.
Why because it’s pumped endlessly through the media.
45-50% of Dublin 1 residents were born outside Ireland. That doesn’t include born in Ireland to parents born outside Ireland.
I wonder if the residents here are overestimating or under