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MOST IRISH EMIGRANTS in Australia believe the Irish Government is not doing enough to encourage them to come home.
That’s according to research carried out by the Irish Australian Chamber of Commerce (IACC).
It found that 58% of emigrants plan to return to Ireland, and 76% plan to do so in the next five years. While one in five want to return home in the next year.
However, the survey also found that 98% of Irish emigrants believe the Government isn’t doing enough to help them return.
IACC Treasurer Tom Mullarkey said, “I was struck by the desire of many migrants to return home but the message about the support available was being missed.
It was interesting to see how the majority of respondents felt that they would have to wait longer than they wanted before a return was realistic.
The association has created a “Returning Migrants Program” to provide support to prepare returning migrants for the move.
Mullarkey added, “It is our hope that by taking the practical step of designing and delivering the Returning Migrants Program that we may make a positive contribution to bringing their aspirations closer to reality more quickly.”
The findings were based on a sample of 100 respondents who participated in an online survey as well as written submissions.
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Most of them down there went down there as a lifestyle choice.
Yes Joe it was either that or go on the dole. But had the choice to not cost tax payers our living expenses
Joe, tell that to my son.
Four years in college to end up in a very poorly paid job working horrible hours, that after rent, taxes and bills paid had 20 euro a week to feed and clothe himself, that same company subsequently went to the wall like so many others four years ago.
This ‘lifestyle choice’ you refer to was not a choice – it was foisted upon him, no work = dole, work in Canada = plenty of work opportunities in his field.
Three years it took him to save enough for the 3 grand the Canadian authorities require you to have for entry, that and cost of his flight.
He now earns in excess of 90 grand euro, if he was afforded the same opportunities here he would gladly come home.
Help them return, we educated them, they went, time to stand on your own two feet ,
I don’t think it’s that simple. They don’t want the government to fund their flight or anything like that. But maybe facilitate a big move home in some ways. Most of these emigrants have good jobs abroad and don’t want to come and sit on the dole for months looking for another one. Like many went out there for a job, most people would like to come home to one. My sister is currently in the process of moving home from New Zealand after moving there over three years ago to get a job as a speech therapist (she had the job organised before she went via Skype interviews.) There was a moratorium on all HSE positions so she was never going to get a stable job here. Now she wants to come home and with three years experience under her belt would be confident in getting a job. She contacted the HSE about interviewing to get onto the panel for advertised positions via Skype- this interview would not even be for a specific job, just to get into the pot the HSE pick from when jobs are advertised. She was told they couldn’t facilitate her. Which means she will have to come home and interview to get onto a panel to interview for positions. Most likely it could take anything up to 6 months to be earning again. The government/HSE should move with the times and get up to date with all of these technologies that private sector and other countries have. It would make it much easier and make the risk of moving home much lesser if they would do so.
Exactly Aaisling most companies abroad hire through Skype interviews, all the job interviews and subsequent offers my son has done in Canada have all been via Skype interviews. It would certainly be a step in the right direction but the likes of the HSE are stuck in the past, and the refusal to move with the times makes it impossible for those abroad to come home worry free.
They don’t want them home, wouldn’t want that unemployment figure going back up and spoiling a tasty bit of election spin
They are not even doing enough to let me here.
They should fly to the Mediterranean and get on one of those boats trying to get into Europe. Irish Government will sort them out then.
Sur according to the unemployment data, they’d only be coming home to part time work and underqualified jobs.
What employment data?
Latest CSO figures show percentage of part-time work falling. Unemployment is falling and you only need to turn on the news to see the growing need for high-skilled jobs, especially in the multinational sector.
Latest unemployment data from last week. Gov headline, unemployment is down. In the small detail, a larger percentage are in part time work now than in 2007, and more than 115k people gone back to work say they’re overqualified for their current job and are therefore being underpaid.
While the majority of our totally incompetent useless politicians are showing very similar characteristics to the fifa organisation, grossly overpaid, showing very little ability to do their jobs, (see banking enquiry yesterday), riddled with corruption and continously throwing state money down the drain.
Generation after generation of Irish emigrants have experienced the exact same situation .
Irish governments are brilliant at exporting their young people , that’s the only thing they excel at , why do Irish people just sit back and take it .
Why would anyone want to come home? Ireland has terrible weather and water charges. Australia has nice weather and no water charges. No brainer
So true Gary, Ireland, thanks to the mismanagement of the pgresent government is owned by Germany.ALL the best young people have left and most of them will not return, why would they?
Why don’t you go and live there then, Gary?
Australia has water charges
A likely tale
Gary you forgot to mention people who constantly go on about water charges day and night no matter what the conversation is about.
Not to mention the fact that you do have to pay for water in Australia FFS.
Gary doesn’t do facts . he was water on the brain .
Pretty sure I pay water charges in Melbourne
Gary I can assure you that Australia has HUGE water charges. And water restrictions – and droughts. Far, far more than Ireland are paying. Don’t know where you get your info from
His Ars€!!!!
We know Gary’s an idiot. What about all those that green thumed him!
Australia has water charges and rates on property.
Gary has gone quiet all of a sudden.
That’s because he just like to throw a bone ..
Your quite rigth there are water charges in Australia .But the unbelievable part is you only pay once and rates are cheaper.
Correction . We pay for water in Australia .
It’s a metered quarterly bill just like gas/electricity . Definitely not a one off!!!
Australia actually has water charges .ur right with the weather though
Well done Gary you’ve made a fool of yourself. Any additional comment on the matter? Thought so.
You’ve obviously never lived in Queensland
Hopefully the government will encourage the workers in Ireland instead of taxing us with stupid usc tax etc often better off on the dole each week after paying bills !!
Nobody is stopping them returning. . But why would anyone want to come here for 0 hour contacts .. and only basis pay
@terry – contacts & basis pay? Please tell me you’re not leaving.
Ending the current setup where Irish citizens living abroad have to travel home to vote would be a start
If they can travel home to vote in the Marriage Referendum then why can’t they do it roughly every 5 years in a general election? They get to vote, meet their family and friends, suss out the situation at home and bring in a few extra euros.
Someone who pops in every five years shouldn’t get to say how our taxes are spent
Why should we have a vote, if we don’t pay our tax in Ireland then I have no right to say how the country should be run.
The truth is the Australian government or people aren’t too fond of you either
That’s nonsense. Most Australians get on really well with the Irish. Also, we’re generally skilled and hard workers and are respected for that. We’ve made a valuable contribution to their economy as a lot of us have been willing to work in places a lot of Australians won’t. I know a few Irish people who’ve married Aussies too. We’re actually very similar.
What !! Do they want the rest of us who stayed and struggled to bail this country out to pay for them to come back and show off their lovely deep tan ? Grrrrrrrr.
Will you polish my shoes at the airport as well when I step off the plane? Cheers in advance.
Of you are doing well on Oz/NZ, Canada or wherever the. Stay where you are. Why would you want to come back here?? Family and friends of course I can understand that bit apart from that there is absolutely nothing here. I’d be trying to convince my family to move to Australia if I was there. Let go fully of here give your new country a chance and make a go of it
Leave so
The football is on at ridiculous times (2-4am etc)
They’ll be home in droves soon enough, a recession is imminent in Oz, mine closures are already happening, a knock on effect is looming and Oz will look after its own and rightly so
The book “Australia boom to bust” talked about the three pillars of Australia’s economy.. Mining.. Banking.. And real estate. Author reckon if one pillar fell the others would follow. Well it looks like one pillar is falling now
The government certainly encourage them to get out of Ireland.Shame on Fg and Lab for the treatment of its people.The government have no problem helping line the pockets of the rich. #ShutYourDob
They left because they wanted to leave. Theyve partied away for all they were worth.
If they want to come back who’s stopping them ??
Dominic! Don’t comment if you have utterly no idea what you’re talking about! Do you think 300,000 people just decided to leave for years on end without knowing when they would be able to come back just to party it up! Without the recession what figure do you think it would be? Not 300,000 anyway! I’d say less than 50,000!
300,000 Irish overboard since the recent crash. Yez could start by giving us back some of our taxes ye kept … €30 Billion (300,000 x €10,000 p.a. x 10 years ). A bit less than the €64 Billion ye gave the Banks!
Aww poor them, terrible the way they were forced to leave in the first place.
I would encourage all Irish kids to stay and build their own country instead of handing it over to the Poles and all the rest. Been into Dublin city lately ?
The joke use to be “if there were no poles what would hold up the scaffolding”.
That and toilet tennis and poo ratings. Toilet humour.
Recession in austrailia yeah i dont tink so,austrailian government are spending in excess of 125billion on infrastructure starting this year…iron ore prices are down but will rise again,gas mines are popping up like mushrooms the japanese have loads of money….but hey jack you keep reading that book and remember “ireland is a great little country” just a pity about the dopes running it…
Australia’s looking at a $100 billion black hole
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/68989707/Australias-looking-at-a-100-billion-black-hole
Would they ever get over themselves
You’ve probably not left the country except for a lads holiday in Majorca etc.
Employment figures misleading due to large numbers being newly self employed and part time positions, the sustainability of which no one can predict.
Why would the government if they were promoting immigration to lower the dole figures, look at all the scambridge schemes, C.E. bull and internships, just to say that the dole figures are lowering and Ireland being the golden boy of Europe for austerity and low unemployment figures… We are still in austerity because the Euro is still in austerity, when austerity is linked to the Euro then we use the euro, it is that simple…
What we need here is manufacturing jobs not jobs that only needs the under 25s that went to university to push buttons on a keyboard? We need manufacturing jobs to create exports but we can’t because our E.U. masters do not want manufacturing jobs here because that would effect the value of the Euro due to imports and exports effecting the euros value.
The U.K. is not in the Euro but it is a fact that any jobs that come to the U.K. is done through Brussels and not London in trade committees and trade bodies, that is akin to not being able to wipe your own rear really and the same happens here. The only jobs that comes here needs approval from Merkels government and that might be why all the jobs are for those who left colleges who know how to hit a keyboard???
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