Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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283. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the cost of a report by consultants (details supplied) on barriers to returning Irish emigrants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39252/17]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Indecon was appointed to this project following a competitive tendering process undertaken by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The report will focus on identifying solutions to disproportionate or unnecessary administrative burdens that negatively affect people wishing to return to Ireland to live.

This economic report will complement the work that the Inter-Departmental Committee on the Irish Abroad has already done in this area, and in particular, the report will review and propose measures to address difficulties in areas that are not immediately within the remit of Departments to alleviate. The report will inform Government policy and actions in relation to difficulties it finds.

Indecon (Ireland) will be paid €73,627.8 for the report and this will be financed from the Department’s budget for diaspora affairs.

Anyone who wishing to highlight an example of a specific administrative difficulty they may have experienced in moving home to Ireland to live that could be of relevance in the context of this report is invited to write to the Irish Abroad Unit at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade or email .