Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 350: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the findings of the International Organisation for Migration's world migration report 2005 that common concerns on migration, such as that it is spiralling out of control and that it causes job losses, lower wages and increased social welfare costs, are not only unfounded but contrary to the evidence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23972/05]

Tony Killeen (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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I am aware of the findings of the report to which the Deputy refers. I would add that these findings coincide with Ireland's experience of economic migration. Research undertaken by the Economic and Social Research Institute has found that as a result of inward migration, economic growth in Ireland was 3.7% higher in the period 1999 to 2003, than it otherwise would have been without any loss of employment or reductions in wage levels.