Written answers
Wednesday, 15 February 2006
Department of An Taoiseach
Residency Permits
9:00 pm
Ciarán Cuffe (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)
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Question 174: To ask the Taoiseach the most recent breakdown for the numbers of residents in the State who are Irish, from the most recent accession states to the European Union, from elsewhere within the European Economic Area and elsewhere. [5831/06]
Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)
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The estimated population at April 2005 was 4.13 million. The quarterly national household survey, QNHS, provides a breakdown of the population by nationality. This is reproduced for April 2005 in the following table. However, it should be borne in mind that the QNHS data may understate the true extent of non-Irish nationals. The extent of the understatement may be of the order of 1% to 1.5% of the total population based on a comparison of nationality data taken from the QNHS for the second quarter of 2002 and census 2002.
Nationality | Thousands | Percent |
Irish | 3,875.3 | 93.8 |
Non-Irish | 255.4 | 6.2 |
of which | ||
UK | 72.3 | 1.8 |
Other EU 15 | 30.9 | 0.7 |
EU 10 (new accession countries) | 58.8 | 1.4 |
Elsewhere | 93.4 | 2.3 |
Total | 4,130.7 | 100.0 |
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