241. Ireland’s Immigration Debate: Housing, Identity & Integration | Keire Murphy

Keire Murphy is a policy researcher, migration expert and public commentator. After spending four years conducting migration research at the Economic and Social Research Institute, she recently began working independently as a researcher, writer and podcaster.

In this long-form conversation, we examine Ireland’s changing population, the relationship between immigration and housing, labour shortages, citizenship, family reunification, integration and what it means to be Irish in an increasingly diverse country.

We also discuss:

• Why Ireland’s migrant population has changed

• Highly skilled immigration and the housing market

• Ireland’s two-tier economy

• The benefits and pressures created by population growth

• Assimilation versus multiculturalism

• Women’s rights and cultural differences

• Why parts of the left have avoided difficult immigration questions

• The Government’s changing approach to citizenship

• How Ireland might build a more cohesive national identity