Immigration Data

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 19 June 2018

Tuesday, 19 June 2018

Ceisteanna (102)

Fiona O'Loughlin

Ceist:

102. Deputy Fiona O'Loughlin asked the Taoiseach the current rates of immigration. [26688/18]

Freagraí scríofa

Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach

Statistics on immigration 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 84,600 persons migrated to Ireland in the year from April 2016 to April 2017. In the previous year to April 2016 there were 82,300 inward migrants.