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    #32
    daithicarr
    Registered Users Posts: 425 ✭✭daithicarr


    djpbarry wrote: »
    Immigrants from outside the EU are in the minority, yes, but their numbers are significant. Just under 20% of immigrants in Ireland are from either Africa or Asia, just under 6.5% are from America, Australia or New Zealand, while just under 6% hail from non-EU European countries (according to the 2006 census).


    Their numbers arent really that significant , 35,000 Africans. 46,000 Asians.
    about 0.8% and 1.1 % of the population each or for a total of just under 2% of the entire population hailing from all of Asia and Africa. very small numbers.

    http://www.cso.ie/statistics/popnclassbyreligionandnationality2006.htm


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    #33
    bartholomewbinn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 138 ✭✭bartholomewbinn


    "I personally think that citizen ship referendum was a disgrace, they played on peoples unfounded fears of people coming here and sponging off our system."


    The passing of this referendum means that people born in Ireland will have a constitutional right to be an Irish citizen only if, at the time of their birth, one of their parents was an Irish citizen. What’s the problem with that? We as a nation are perfectly entitled to decide the criteria for Irish citizenship. The referendum was passed by a big majority http://www.rte.ie/news/elections2004/referendum/refresultsindex.html
    And clearly shows the wishes of the Irish people in this matter. All in all a good days work.


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    #34
    Tha Gopher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,799 ✭✭✭Tha Gopher


    daithicarr wrote: »
    Their numbers arent really that significant , 35,000 Africans. 46,000 Asians.
    about 0.8% and 1.1 % of the population each or for a total of just under 2% of the entire population hailing from all of Asia and Africa. very small numbers.

    http://www.cso.ie/statistics/popnclassbyreligionandnationality2006.htm

    The census was widely acknowledged to have been grossly undercounting some groups tbh.


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    #35
    djpbarry
    Registered Users Posts: 13,104 ✭✭✭✭djpbarry


    daithicarr wrote: »
    Their numbers arent really that significant , 35,000 Africans. 46,000 Asians.
    about 0.8% and 1.1 % of the population each or for a total of just under 2% of the entire population hailing from all of Asia and Africa. very small numbers.
    When taken as a percentage of the total population, yes, but when taken as a percentage of the immigrant population, then their numbers are significant.
    Tha Gopher wrote: »
    The census was widely acknowledged to have been grossly undercounting some groups tbh.
    I believe this was reconciled against workforce statistics earlier this year; a surplus of 84,000 foreign workers was found, but I would imagine most are from the EU.


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