Sir, – In light of the recent, and occasionally less than positive, reaction of some in Ireland to the topic of inward migration, it might be useful to look at the opposite side of the coin.
Inward migration is actually a positive good for Ireland, greatly expanding our employed workforce, improving the ratio of employed people to dependent people and enabling the provision of vital services, especially in the areas of care, health and technology, which we could not otherwise sustain.
Ireland’s “new economy” simply could not adequately function without ongoing inward economic migration.
Very many of us have had the pleasant experience of interacting with nursing home care staff, hospitality workers, medical clinical staff, social care workers, therapists, taxi drivers, bus drivers, retail workers, library staff, catering staff and university staff, each from abroad, and all now part of our modern and diverse Ireland. Our experience of that interaction has been invariably helpful and advantageous.
RM Block
Economists and others are able to make a strongly supportive economic and social case for inward economic migration into Ireland, and even to quantify the material advantages that accrue to all of us from the positive phenomenon of controlled inward migration. There are also non-quantifiable benefits, possibly even more valuable. – Yours, etc,
ANTHONY LAYNG,
Ringsend Road,
Dublin 4.
We could not function without economic migrants
