Ms Laura Weymes:

The CSO produces very detailed participation rate data, broken down by disaggregated age group. There has been some rise in the 50 and over component in terms of its future capacity to keep driving overall upward participation trends, but perhaps somewhat more limited.

The Deputy also asked about the proportion of overall migration accounted for by returning Irish. The census data, produced by the CSO on a usual-residency basis have shown stronger net inward migration than the annual population and migration estimates. That would point to an uptake in returning Irish. The reason for that is that the annual estimates are produced using PPS issuance.

I think it will be some time before those annual April figures produced by the CSO are aligned with what we are seeing in the more comprehensive census data.