1.  a) What is the population of Ireland? (Go to the CIA World FactBook at cia.gov for the answer. It provides background information & statistics on every country.)
b)  What percent of the Irish population was foreign two years ago?
c)  What percent of the Irish population is foreign today?

2.  How is the Irish government responding to the large influx of immigrants?

3.  What percent of new immigrants to Ireland are under the age of 44?

4.  In what job sectors do the new immigrants work?

5.  What types of services for Polish immigrants are appearing in local communities?

6.  Why are such a large number of new immigrants arriving in Ireland from Poland and Lithuania?

7.  Why do you think Ireland did not have a strict immigration policy prior to this?