Seanad debates
Thursday, 27 March 2003
Employment Permits Bill 2003: Second Stage.
Beyond academic surveys, using common sense it is clear that mass migration will not happen post-Nice. For example, when Ireland joined the EEC in 1973, when we were economically deprived, there was no mass emigration of the Irish to Germany or France. Today, with 4.3 million unemployed Germans and 2.5 million unemployed Spaniards, nobody is talking about mass German or Spanish emigration to Ireland.
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