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Recovering Ireland appeals for diaspora to come home
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Mar 04, 2015 10:19pm |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Conor Barrins |
| Media | Website - Yahoo News |
| News Date | Wednesday, March 4, 2015 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Dublin (AFP) - Ireland's government this week launched a new programme called "Global Irish" designed to attract thousands of emigrants who left during the financial crisis to return.
The new policy includes support services for Irish emigrants who have returned and practical information about moving back.
"Some of these people left hoping to return to Ireland if the economy got better and there were jobs available for them," Ireland's Diaspora Minister Jimmy Deenihan told AFP on Wednesday.
"We hope to create the environment and the economic climate to give them an incentive to come back," he said, hinting at possible tax reform.
Prime Minister Enda Kenny on Tuesday appealed to emigrants to return home.
"Emigration has a devastating impact on our economy as we lose the input of talent and energy. We need these people at home. And we will welcome them," he said.
An estimated 240,000 Irish citizens left the country since the onset of the crisis in 2008 that ravaged the Irish economy, with most leaving to find work abroad.
In the past 15 months, Ireland has exited its bailout programme and its economy is forecast to be Europe's fastest-growing this year.
"I believe that, after seven years of emigration, 2016 will be the year when the number of our people coming home, will be greater than the numbers who leave," Kenny said. |
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