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21/04/2008
Migrants Say Bye To 'Bi-Polar' Irish Economy
An economic boom in Poland is beginning to draw migrant workers back to their home country as Ireland’s economy slows.
The number of Polish people coming into the country in the first three months of the year has dropped sharply compared to 2007.
Meanwhile, the Polish embassy has reported the repatriation of many of its emigrants as a result of Poland’s economic surge.
A strong Polish currency, as well as improved economic conditions, is contributing to the movement back east.
In the first three months of last year, the Department of Social and Family Affairs issued 18,729 PPS numbers to Polish nationals. Between January and March this year, this dropped to 11,616 a decrease of almost 40pc.
A spokesman from the Polish embassy said: "The free market dictates everything. The decision, from my experience and talking to Poles here, is that money talks.
"More Poles are returning back to Poland from Ireland because of the simple fact of slower development.”
The major slowdown in the building sector in Ireland has left a lot of Polish labourers out of work, and the sector has seen the largest drops in employment of all other sectors over the past few months.
"The Irish economy is developing at the pace of 2% not 5% or 6% like last year. They [Poles] feel this four-point gap now. They feel there is a kind of recession but only in the building sector.
"The Polish economy is increasing by around 5pc a year, we expect 5.5pc growth in 2008 and the Irish economy has only the expectation of 1.9%."
(DW)
The number of Polish people coming into the country in the first three months of the year has dropped sharply compared to 2007.
Meanwhile, the Polish embassy has reported the repatriation of many of its emigrants as a result of Poland’s economic surge.
A strong Polish currency, as well as improved economic conditions, is contributing to the movement back east.
In the first three months of last year, the Department of Social and Family Affairs issued 18,729 PPS numbers to Polish nationals. Between January and March this year, this dropped to 11,616 a decrease of almost 40pc.
A spokesman from the Polish embassy said: "The free market dictates everything. The decision, from my experience and talking to Poles here, is that money talks.
"More Poles are returning back to Poland from Ireland because of the simple fact of slower development.”
The major slowdown in the building sector in Ireland has left a lot of Polish labourers out of work, and the sector has seen the largest drops in employment of all other sectors over the past few months.
"The Irish economy is developing at the pace of 2% not 5% or 6% like last year. They [Poles] feel this four-point gap now. They feel there is a kind of recession but only in the building sector.
"The Polish economy is increasing by around 5pc a year, we expect 5.5pc growth in 2008 and the Irish economy has only the expectation of 1.9%."
(DW)
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