{"id":647250,"date":"2026-10-07T07:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T07:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/647250\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T07:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T07:04:08","slug":"inward-migration-is-actually-good-for-ireland-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/647250\/","title":{"rendered":"Inward migration is actually good for Ireland \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sir, \u2013 In light of the recent, and occasionally less than positive, reaction of some in Ireland to the topic of inward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/immigration\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/immigration\/\">migration<\/a>, it might be useful to look at the opposite side of the coin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ireland\u2019s \u201cnew economy\u201d simply could not adequately function without ongoing inward economic migration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">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. \u2013 Yours, etc, <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">ANTHONY LAYNG,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ringsend Road,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Dublin 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall  b-it-article-body__copyright\">We could not function without economic migrants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir, \u2013 In light of the recent, and occasionally less than positive, reaction of some in Ireland to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,1629,60,43,22795],"class_list":["post-647250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-immigration","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-nursing-homes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}