Emigration Data

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 19 June 2018

Tuesday, 19 June 2018

Questions (101)

Fiona O'Loughlin

Question:

101. Deputy Fiona O'Loughlin asked the Taoiseach the current rates of emigration. [26687/18]

Written answers

Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach

Statistics on emigration are included in the CSO's annual Population and Migration Estimates release. The principal source of information for the estimation of annual migration flows, incorporating both emigration and immigration, is the Labour Force Survey (LFS), formally the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS). The latest release was published in August 2017 and shows that an estimated 64,800 left Ireland in the year to April 2017. In the previous year to April 2016 there were 66,200 outward migrants.