Welcome to the website of the Office of the Minister for Integration.
I hope that you find it useful and informative.
| My Office has been set up to develop, drive and co-ordinate integration policy across Government Departments so that our immigrants are fully integrated into Irish society. The Irish people have vast personal experience of the challenges and opportunities that emigration and integration present as traditionally we were a country of emigration ourselves. Therefore, as a result of our own history, we understand emigration and the problems that emigrants can face. Uprooting your life, finding work, accessing services and building friendships in a new country can be a major challenge, even without the added complexities of cultural or language differences. |  | 
Mr John Curran, T.D., Minister for Integration. |
Latest News
- 5th February 2010
Minister Curran Launches County Louth Peace and Reconciliation Partnership Action Plan 2008-2010 Activity IV- Institutional Sectarianism & Racism - 3rd February 2010
UCD New Irish Scholarship - closing date for the receipt of completed applications is 3pm on Tuesday 13th April 2010. - 2nd February 2010
Minister John Curran T.D launches 'In the Front Line of Integration: Young People Managing Migration to Ireland' - 1st February 2010
Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration 2010 - View All
Immigration into Ireland: - Top Ten Countries (Source Census 2006)
Total Population of Ireland (Census 2006) 4,172,013
Total Irish 3,706,683 i.e. 88.8% of total
Non-Irish 419,733 * i.e. 10.1% of total
Other/Non Stated 45,597 i.e. 1.1% of total
* EU nationals represent 275,775 i.e. 65.7% of the non-Irish national total.
UK
112,548 * i.e. 26.8% of non-Irish national total
Poland
63,276 * i.e. 15.1% of non-Irish national total
Lithuania
24,628 * i.e. 5.9% of non-Irish national total
Nigeria
16,300 * i.e. 3.9% of non-Irish national total
Latvia
13,319 * i.e. 3.2% of non-Irish national total
USA
12,475 * i.e 3% of non-Irish national total
China
11,161 * i.e. 2.7% of non-Irish national total
Germany
10,289 * i.e. 2.5% of non-Irish national total
Philippines
9,548 * i.e. 2.3% of non-Irish national total
France
9,046 * i.e. 2.2% of non-Irish national total
