PPS numbers and the picture they paint.
Since mid 2000, Ireland has issued over 2.7 million PPS numbers for the rest of the world and at the same time has issued only 1.7 million PPS numbers to the Irish.
Did you know:
1 million Rest Of World PPS numbers more have been issued versus Irish.
Ireland has turned over almost 3 million people from the rest of the world.
The PPS number plays a crucial role in understanding the chronic housing issues, but first it is important to understand how the official PPS number datasets are a useful testament over a long and tumultuous period of Ireland’s recent economic history that expresses population activity and trends as a recorded fact, and the picture it paints along a timeline of context.
PPS data also has the advantage of being more like live data compared to the periodic snapshots of Census data compiled only every 5 years, it has a much shorer lag as PPS numbers are reported quarterly.
It gives anyone a simple and easy way to understand the story of why #IrelandIsFull that is uncontroversial, a matter of fact - the kind the powers that be can not deny and so, would prefer you did not look too closely at or discuss in the context of competition for housing resources, and other vital services.
In simple terms, if you allow too many people in to compete for what is alway a finite resource (housing) for the natives - then you have a recipe for detrimental supply constraints leading to suffering - which is exactly what has happened in Ireland and why #IrelandIsFull, is a perfect free form expression encapsulating the current predicament that many Irish people experience in their lives daily - a chronic housing supply crunch brought about by policies tantamount to Housing Treason.
#IrelandIsFull caused by #HousingTreason.
Summary:
2.7 million PPS numbers issued for Rest of World
1.7 million PPS numbers issued for Ireland.
Other quick Stats:
Ireland Pop. 2002 - 3.9 million
Ireland Pop. 2022 - 5.12 million (preliminary)