Opinion

Shane Coleman: Let’s have the debate on immigration, it will only show that it works for Ireland

Despite the eye-rolling from the virtuous on the left, it is important to discuss migration

The highest number of work permits issued were for jobs in health and social work and information and communication, the two sectors with the worst employee shortages

For a country supposedly refusing to allow any debate on immigration, we are doing a huge amount of talking about that very subject.

In the past few days alone, there’s been a Dáil motion, along with countless newspaper columns plus TV and radio pieces on immigration.

The real problem is actually less the quantity, and more the quality, of the debate (as we saw in the Dáil on Wednesday). We should talk about immigration. Despite ...