
Originally Posted by
Clanrickard
There are exactly the same number of Irsh as non_irish on the live register. Stop twisting the facts to suit your own bigoted ends.
What?
[FONT=Switzerland-Bold]Over 199,000 Irish nationals on Live Register in September[/FONT]
[FONT=TimesNewRoman][SIZE=2]Of the 240,217 persons on the Live Register in September 2008, 199,003 (82.8%) were Irish nationals and 41,214 (17.2%) were[/SIZE][/FONT]
[SIZE=2][FONT=TimesNewRoman]Non-Irish nationals. The percentage of Non-Irish nationals on the Live Register in September 2007 was 13.4%. [/FONT][/SIZE][FONT=TimesNewRoman-NormalItalic][SIZE=2]See Table 4.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=TimesNewRoman][SIZE=2]Estimates from the Quarterly National Household Survey for March to May 2008 show that Non-Irish nationals represented an[/SIZE][/FONT]
[SIZE=2][FONT=TimesNewRoman]estimated 16.6% of all persons in the labour force aged between 17 and 65 (the relevant age range for the Live Register).[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=2][FONT=TimesNewRoman]How do you get 199,000 Irish to be the same as 41,000 non Irish?[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=2][FONT=TimesNewRoman]We were told that the immigrants were going home.[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=2][FONT=TimesNewRoman]Clearly 41,000 non Irish on the live register is proof they are not going home![/FONT][/SIZE]