Number of Foreigners Acquiring Irish Citizenship Increasing Rapidly
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.