Daily Stormer
July 6, 2014
Or whatever.
The number of people becoming Irish citizens doubled between 2010 and 2011, and doubled again the following year, according to a new report.
The ESRI’s Annual Monitoring Report on Integration 2013 was published this morning, and analysed a number of areas of immigrant inclusion.
Between 2005 and 2012, 54,700 non-European Economic Association adults acquired Irish citizenship.
In 2012, 20,200 became Irish citizens.
It notes that non-Irish nationals have not “benefited from the first stirrings of recovery” in the economy, citing an unemployment rate of 18%, 5% higher than the rate for Irish nationals.
The report also details a high level of youth employment at 33%.
There was some positive news on the education front that although while grades among 15-year-old immigrants from non-English backgrounds were still lower on average, the gap had narrowed since 2009.
Income poverty rates were similar between Irish and non-Irish nationals.