I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service of my Department that the following table provides the number of persons granted Stamp 2 registrations and Stamp 2A registrations for the period 2012 – 2016 and to date in 2017 (31 May, 2017).
Year
|
STAMP 2
|
Stamp 2A
|
2017 to date
|
36,565
|
3,857
|
2016
|
51,403
|
6,002
|
2015
|
55,870
|
4,938
|
2014
|
51,608
|
4,265
|
2013
|
47,253
|
4,251
|
2012
|
42,775
|
4,322
|
2011
|
41,718
|
4,791
|
I am further advised that it would take a disproportionate amount of staff resource time to extract the breakdown by each Garda station in the country as requested by the Deputy.