One thing that may not be entirely obvious from the preliminary census figures published last week is the extent to which they definitively link the Irish housing crisis to the Irish immigration crisis.
The census does not simply record people, and their religion, and their age. It also records the number of homes in the country and how that number has grown between the last census, and the latest one. In the case of the figures published last week, the figure for additional homes is startling: Between 2016 and 2022, Ireland added 120,945 new homes.
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