Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I ask the Minister to consider this question and I do not expect an answer now. The CSO publishes figures, including those for immigration and migration. They show that there has been the highest level of emigration for many years at 65,000 people. We still have net migration. A lot of people are leaving. I presume many of them are young people and skilled. The Ministers should think very seriously about who they are and why they are leaving. If we are talking about capacity constraints and skills shortages, we need to ask very seriously who is leaving, what skills have they got and how can we stop them leaving when we need to deal with skills shortages and capacity constraints.