John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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126. To ask the Taoiseach the number of Irish nationals who emigrated each year from 2006 to 2015, inclusive; and the number of Irish nationals which have returned to live here since the start of 2011. [20707/16]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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Statistics on migration are included in the CSO's annual Population and Migration Estimates release. The principal source of information for the estimation of annual migration flows published by the Central Statistics Office, incorporating both emigration and immigration, is the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS); the published estimates are classified by sex, broad age group, origin and destination, and nationality. The latest release was published in August 2015 and includes data for the years ending April 2011 – April 2015 inclusive.

Table 1 shows the number of Irish migrants for each year 2006-2015 inclusive.

It is estimated that there were 304,800 Irish emigrants for the period 2006-2015 inclusive. It is estimated that there were 79,600 Irish immigrants over the period 2011-2015 inclusive.

Table 1 - Estimated Irish migrants (persons), 2006 - 2015¹

¹2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 are preliminary and are subject to revision following publication of final data from Census 2016.

Source: Population and Migration Estimates, Central Statistics Office.';