Seanad debates
Tuesday, 1 April 2003
Employment Permits Bill 2003: Committee Stage.
Approximately 20,000 people have come here from Romania. While many of these have work permits, some are here illegally. Last year 1,776 work permits were issued. Included in the figure of 20,000 are approximately 2,000 from the Roma community. While other Romanians here are employed in the service sectors, last year 51 working visas were issued to ICT professionals, nine to architects and ten to construction engineers.
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