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Derrrr....let's do math.
Simon Coveney says that half a million of the added population to Ireland in the next 20 years are going to be foreign born. He then lists the children of foreigners, when discussing who else is to be added, and talks of Irish growth dead last.
So let's estimate that each of the 500k foreigners has 1 child (they'll likely have much more than just 1): how much does that leave for Irish growth serenity. ZERO.
Let us see how much the nonsense level comes too, these things are facts:
More than three-quarters (77.3%) of births were to Irish mothers, while a further 11.5% of births were to women of EU nationality.
There were 62,053 registered births in Ireland
There were 30,484 deaths registered in 2017
So every year, if the level stays around the same, 31,500 extra people in Ireland a year, you will get a population growth of in excess of half a million.
Now let's just look at the number of births, 62,053 live births means the number of Irish born children last year was almost 48,000 Irish born children. Meaning about 14,000 children were foreign born, of which half were EU citizens.
So your bull crap about there being ZERO room for Irish growth is just that, total nonsense. Especially because about 2/3 of those foreigners are other EU and European citizens with an equal fertility number, the Irish will and will remain the vastly majority "nationality" in Ireland for now and for the foreseeable future. This whole 2040 nonsense is exactly that total and utter nonsense made up by people with nefarious intentions IMHO.