The population of the Republic of Ireland increased by 7.6% in the six years between 2016 and 2022, according to the summary results of Census 2022.

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  1. Ridiculously rapid population growth, a reflection of the booming economy – which is good news. But ultimately further evidence that the government needs to expedite apartment construction and suppress unnecessary immigration/demand until we get sufficient supply.

    No wonder there’s a housing crisis, we’re building only a moderate amount of new units, while our population is growing faster then pretty much anywhere else in the EU.

  2. Population is up to 5.1m.

    That’s an increase of 364k people, an average of 60k per year.

    No wonder we have a housing shortage.

  3. Its certainly not from the births here. Feels like noone is having kids until they can afford a house, which may be never. Strong migration from the high minimum wage and jobs aplenty if you want the hospitality sector.

  4. It’s clear from the numbers that if we controlled inward migration a bit better the population growth (7.6% overall, of which 52.6% was migration) could have mirrored housing supply growth (a claimed 6%, if you believe it). Which wouldn’t have reduced prices / rents, but could have stopped them getting as bad as they have.

    Surely now, with these census results, the housing crisis, the cost of living crisis and looming recession the inward immigration numbers need to be halved for a couple of years?

    The only people it benefits in a scenario like the one we’re facing are corporations – who need either highly skilled tech workers or cheap low-level labour.

  5. This……is going to bite us on the arse in 20 years time when it’s to late and Ireland is completely over populated.

    Seriously I know it sounds wrong but we need to set a amount of people we bring into Ireland, we are a island not a continent and sooner or later we will have more people then houses……wait what do you mean that’s already the case lol

  6. So if I have read this right. 166k vacant homes of which 46k have been vacant since 2016 and that’s not including holiday homes?

    This is all manufactured for the benefit of FF / FG

  7. I’ve been slated in the past for saying this, but this data back up my theory that Dublin is going through a process of gentrification. High skilled and high paid workers moving in and displacing locals. It sounds racist to complain about such things until you consider that a lot of the locals are foreigners themselves who moved here 10/20 years ago and are in low paying jobs.

    This is a nasty problem to solve especially when our economy (thus our social welfare) is so dependent on these high paid workers in the first place. We can stop them coming in; they have to feel welcome.

    Dan O’Brien had a piece in one of the papers at the weekend where he said we should get the multinationals to build housing before they’re allowed bring in more employees into the country. While that sounds like a good idea I can see a few problems with it. First off who wants their employer to be their landlord! Second most come to the country without a job and find one when they arrive (I’ve interviewed people for tech jobs who went about it this way).

    One thing that really has to change is our attitude towards build to let properties. A lot of these workers have no intention of buying a house/apartment. They’ve a 4 year plan to come here, gain experience and leave for home. They’ve no problem shelling out €2k for an apartment. We need to stop thinking from an Irish perspective when it comes to types of housing.

  9. To be fair, I just happened to be home from abroad when the census was going on (with the missus, and my sister also happened to be home). So the population of the mother’s house was up 400% from the last census.

  10. We need to stop immigration immediately. I’m not specifically talking about asylum seekers but multi national companies importing educated people from all over the globe. We are bursting at the seams and need time to catch up

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