Young graduates are leaving because they don't want to spend the rest of their lives sharing squalid bedrooms with strangers, because they can't pay 2,800 a month to rent a one bedroom apartment and because buying is equally unattainable. Gimmicky tax break proposals suggest that the government either doesn't understand this or is desperately trying to distract from it.Housing issue in Ireland
That's a very Dublin-centric view of things; hardly surprising given your username though!Young graduates are leaving because they don't want to spend the rest of their lives sharing squalid bedrooms with strangers, because they can't pay 2,800 a month to rent a one bedroom apartment and because buying is equally unattainable. Gimmicky tax break proposals suggest that the government either doesn't understand this or is desperately trying to distract from it.
The cities are where most graduate jobs are. Plus many people in their 20s aren't too keen to move to rural Laois. Dublin needs thousands of apartment blocks like they exist in every comparable EU city. Land & money are available but the government has wasted 15 years making excuses for not building them. It's artificially induced scarcity pandering to middle class nimbyism & vested interests. Mass graduate emigration is seen as a price worth paying.That's a very Dublin-centric view of things; hardly surprising given your username though!
Maybe part of the solution would be recognizing there's life beyond the Pale...
Why are they set on emigrating?Two of my daughters, who will graduate in a few years time, have told me they will be off to Australia. Many of their friends have a similar outlook. Ultimately I expect that four of my six children will emigrate. Piecemeal tax measures won't make any real difference.
Probably because they don't want to spend the rest of their lives living with their parents.Why are they set on emigrating?
This country is thriving economically. There are loads of opportunties.Probably because they don't want to spend the rest of their lives living with their parents.
There is nowhere to live.This country is thriving economically. There are loads of opportunties.
Rent/housing, adventure, quality of life. Would-be teachers.Why are they set on emigrating?
Great post.I prefer to look at cold hard numbers when it comes to this.
From the HEA stats, 91% of undergraduates in 2021 were employed in Ireland so the vast majority of graduates are not emigrating.
Secondly, there is no doubt that housing is an issue but there is also a matter of expectations. I'm part of a generation that lived in shared houses for 10 years after graduating and didn't think anything about it and was well into my 30s before I took out a mortgage. It took me 10 years and 3 houses to get to my "forever home". Maybe expectations of a modern generation are unrealistic.
And if you can't find a house or flat to rent in Dublin, fine, don't work there. Work somewhere else in Ireland. No shortage of jobs out there and Dublin is not the be all and end all.
Latest statistics from the CSO show 64k people left Ireland and 142k people moved here in the year ending April 23. 42k of those arriving were Ukrainian.
If you break it down into Irish citizens, 30500 left, 29600 returned. so almost 1-1. This is still around 20% less then those who emigrated after the collapse of the Celtic Tiger.
If you compare this back to the 80s and 90s. 25% of graduates were emigrating in that period (and I was one of them). That's in line with my own experiences where 20 of us used to meet up every month in London where we were all living.
There has been a change in emigration trends in my view where an element of it now is temporary migration, where people move to the Middle East, for example, for a number of years to make some money/party and then return, especially once kids start to arrive. I can name a lot like that. It's almost compulsory now for when a teacher is made permanent that the first thing they do is take a leave of absence and head for Dubai.
Never ceases to amaze me how Irish people will happily house share in Melbourne but complain about having to do it here
Irish workers are the most mobile in the world.There is also the merit in going somewhere for a few years. I chose to go to the UK for a while, for example.
Very few immigrant primary teachers but I am seeing an increase in immigrant secondary teachers, my kids have teachers from Wales and France at the minute for example but it varies per subjectTeaching also seems to be the one area where there are very few immigrates working. Unfortunately not possible for them to understand the system by teacher friend tells me. They do okay in all other professions...
Presumably Irish language requirements for primary school has something to do with stopping EU teachers from practicing.Weather / lifestyle plays a part for sure.
I can't understand how the teacher career break doesn't get more attention. Is this not the reason there is so many temp positions available but not permanent? However it seems to be a boat no one wants to rock.
I don't blame teachers for going. To be honest you would be mad not to go. Your job sitting there waiting for you to come back for up to 5 years!
Teaching also seems to be the one area where there are very few immigrates working. Unfortunately not possible for them to understand the system by teacher friend tells me. They do okay in all other professions...
We would need another referendum! The constitution would have to be changed first as Irish is the first language of the country.Presumably Irish language requirements for primary school has something to do with stopping EU teachers from practicing.
If they were more enlightened a French or other European native school teacher should be considered a bonus, not an impediment! to teach.