I dati sull’immigrazione totale diminuiscono mentre aumentano i permessi di lavoro e il numero dei richiedenti asilo – rapporto
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/total-immigration-figures-fall-as-work-permits-and-asylum-numbers-rise-report-1840611.html
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Down 16% from record highs – so still way above normal levels
Sure, would be good news if it wasn’t coupled with lowest construction…
It’s a weighty beast which includes statistics, significant policy developments and debates, research and notable case law on a range of migration-related topics.
Well worth reading.
https://www.esri.ie/system/files/publications/SUSTAT137.pdf
“24 per cent of first permits issued to non-EEA nationals in 2024 were for employment, 48 per cent were for education”
Here is the nonsense of the Irish immigration system. 24% were for employment – so that is all Critical Skill hires and General Employment Permit hires.
Double that, 48%, were for education. The education visas are mostly bullshit – people move here to do Masters degrees that they don’t need, at shitty colleges, just to gain the Stamp 1G graduate visa, allowing them to work full-time for two years and attempt to find a path to long-term residency.
They are paying big university fees, and this subsidises our third-level system because it’s underfunded by government, so the fees are very necessary. But it makes a mockery of our work permit system.
In my work I meet a lot of people who moved to Ireland this way. And I can say that there are lots of hard working, well-qualified people moving to Ireland this way. There are qualified accountants who work at Big 4 firms in India quitting their jobs and moving to Ireland to do a Masters course. They work part-time retail jobs to try and support themselves.
Meanwhile, when an Irish company needs to hire someone from abroad, the process often takes up to 6 months because of the delays in processing Critical Skill permits, obtaining entry visas, etc. You have to jump through hoops to find people who meet the Critical skill criteria, and run the risk of the application being rejected after waiting weeks for a decision.
But if the same person signs up for a Masters in Finance Degree at bumfuck college in Mayo, they can bypass the entire skill-based system, and move to Ireland with no guarantee of a permanent job on the table.
I don’t think it makes any sense.
Some interesting figures in that. 120k+ per year average immigration over the last four years, during the worst housing crisis in the history of the state, is incredibly irresponsible. Over 2% population growth from immigration per year. Thats 40k-50k housing units a year being taken off the market by immigration alone, more than our entire output in any of those years. Its no wonder the housing crisis isn’t getting better.
Only 32% of non-EU work visas going to healthcare workers too shows how few of our work visas are actually going to essential workers, despite that always being the go-to defense of the tens of thousands of them issued every year.
The tens of thousands of yearly non-EU student visas issued too. Until the housing crisis is less severe surely they could be cut dramatically. The comparatively (in terms of state spending) small loss in funding to universities could very easily be made up by the government given our current huge surpluses.
Less skilled workers, more asylum seekers? Great.
Less numbers, more wasters