First published at 23:47 UTC on April 12th, 2019.
Dr Ebun Joseph: It's too hard for non-EU migrants to move to Ireland
UCD's Dr Ebun Joseph has told the Tonight Show that believes that Ireland makes it too difficult for non-EU migrants to move here.
Addressing Peader Toibiín's rec…
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Dr Ebun Joseph: It's too hard for non-EU migrants to move to Ireland
UCD's Dr Ebun Joseph has told the Tonight Show that believes that Ireland makes it too difficult for non-EU migrants to move here.
Addressing Peader Toibiín's recent remarks in which he stated that a debate on immigration was desirable despite not wanting to limit or cap immigration himself, Dr Joseph said it was fantastic to have a debate on immigration "but when you decide that the conversation we want to have is a one-sided conversation, that's where the problem is."
Dr Joseph said it wasn't only asylum seekers coming to Ireland and that she personally knew a friend from Nigeria who bought a house in Ireland "cash-outright" from money her husband earned in Nigeria and that she didn't need to secure a mortgage. She said this was proof that there are resources which migrants are bringing into Ireland.
In May, 2013, World Bank figures revealed that €468m in 'remittances' was sent from Ireland to Nigeria in 2011. That was average of more than €26,000 for each of the 17,642 Nigerian nationals in Ireland, including children.
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