Immigration offers considerable social and economic benefits to Northern Ireland, a report revealed. The report unveiled that migrant workers made up four percent of the Northern Ireland work force.
The report stated that migrants contributed £1.2bn to the economy from 2004 to 2008. It has looked into various fields like employment, education, economy, housing, population, benefits, health care, crime and social cohesion.
The report claimed that migration contributed for the economic growth by addressing labor shortages, bringing necessary skills and talent and enhancing the society through cultural diversity.
The key aspects of the report includes - three percent of the total number of people attending school in Northern
Ireland are from ethnic groups, 81.5% of overseas nationals in the UK were employed and the cost of temporary overseas nationals using the health service attributed to around £12m of the total £109bn NHS budget.
The report emphasized the contributions made by the migrant workers in labor, tax and cultural diversity. Experts opined that the report and its key findings are extremely important as it indicates the significance of migrants to the Northern Ireland.
