Ms Marie-Claire McAleer:

I thank Deputy Collins for her comments. In terms of returning migrants, the UCC report touched on issues such as a turn in the economy in Australia or some other countries to which people have emigrated or not renewing working holiday visas. We do not know. I did not want to labour the point about the changing demographics and our age structure but we need those people back in terms of our pension system when we look at the ratio of people of working age to pension age and the ageing population. We really need them back, apart from the fact that they are a great loss to the social fabric of Irish society.