Written answers

Wednesday, 15 February 2006

Department of An Taoiseach

Residency Permits

9:00 pm

Photo of Ciarán CuffeCiarán 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]

Photo of Bertie AhernBertie 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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