Live Register For March

[Middleaged]

How dare you even talk about the wonderful immigrants who have worked here for 5 minutes but can claim a lifetime of benefits!

Its not on.

Some havent even paid tax on their minimum wages!

Nope, leave the poor immigrants alone,

In fact lets give them more cash for their kids that dont live in Ireland. Opps we already do!

There are plenty of Irish workers/earners that d'ont tax, the figure is 900k in total.

[mmrebel]

http://www.cso.ie/releasespublicatio...rrent/lreg.pdf
for anyone who is interested thats the direct link to the document its a pdf

[Keith-M]

Any breakdown by sexual orientation/religion?

Any breakdown by shoe six or eye colour?

[Trans-Siberian]

Any breakdown by sexual orientation/religion?

That does not matter. Bleeding heart liberals tend not to be able to see the bigger picture.

[locke]

I want a breakdown by voting pattern in the last General Election.

I'm hoping for a sense of Schadenfreude that helps me over the state of the economy.

[SkatesOn]

Any breakdown by shoe six or eye colour?

or hair colour?

[Dreaded_Estate]

I think a break down by weight is the only important statistic. I think those skinny people are really pulling the piss.

[Trans-Siberian]

You do realise the requirement is 2 years, not 5 minutes? But anyway, to extend your argument a bit, do you also believe that Irish people who have never worked should be entitled to dole?

Example: If a male Polish worker has worked legally for 2 years in this country they are entitled to full benifits ( compared with Irish nationals that is ).

However should his wife and kids move over when he is on the dole they are also entiltled to benefits. The house he receives for example will have to be suitable for the Children so he will receive rent allowance for maybe a 3 or 4 bed rather than a 1 bed.

Take your blinkers off mate!!

[Trans-Siberian]

or hair colour?

Why do you think the CSO add a breakdown by nationality if it was not of concern or if it was not worthy of recording?

[bob3344]

Second in the list of foreign groups availing of free accommodation, courtesy of the State, are who? Citizens of fellow EU states, such as the Poles, the Latvians, the Czechs or Slovaks? No, indeed not. The people who come second in the rent-allowance league table are the Nigerians -- barely less than the British, with 3,024 claimants. But whereas the British figure constitutes just 2.7pc of the total population of Britons living here, the figure for Nigerians is 18.6pc of their total Irish population of 16,300. Alas, just how many more Nigerian dependents are the beneficiaries of the rent allowances that are being granted to the 3,024 family-heads, I cannot say.

Now this reliance upon the state for the accommodation of so many Nigerians reflects another rather uncomfortable truth which was revealed in the 2006 census, but which has never -- so far as I know -- been highlighted in the media. It is this: contrary to almost all predictions about the impact of immigrants upon an economy, a majority of Nigerians are not economically active at all. For even at the height of the boom, in 2006, only 38pc over the age of 15 were at work.

Risible lies about immigrants no substitute for honest debate - Kevin Myers, Columnists - Independent.ie