Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht
Supporting the Irish Community: London Irish Centre
2:55 pm
Mr. Gary Dunne:
The only point I wanted to address was the question of how young emigrants find it to arrive in London. As Mr. Barlow mentioned, we carried out the largest research process ever carried out on the Irish in London two years ago, entitled Fresh Perspectives, which was a community needs analysis. From that, we can see that 60% of the recent migrant cohort aged between 18 to 35 were going to managerial and professional industries, only 10% were going to manual and traditional roles and the rest were students. Another interesting point from the needs analysis was how difficult young migrants found the transition to the London workplace. It is a very competitive work market and work plays a central role in the lives of Londoners. I am sure it does here as well. It was a significant finding that people found the adjustment quite difficult.
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