As key services in education, health, housing and transport struggle with increasing demand, plans are being devised to deal with pressures from rising immigration and people living longer
Forecasts from the Central Statistics Office suggest the Republic's population could reach as high as 6.49 million within the next 20 years. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
In recent weeks the Parliamentary Budget Office in the Houses of the Oireachtas estimated that more than 115,000 households have a continuing need for permanent State-supported housing. “Even if there was no migration the number of births still exceeds the number of deaths, so the overall population will continue to rise,” he said.Department of Housing
The “secondary schools crisis action group” – established earlier this year – is seeking reforms to admission policies and greater oversight by the Department of Education. Under what it considers the most likely migration and fertility projections, the department forecasts that primary school enrolments will reach a low point of 478,152 by 2036.
HSE modelling also fed into the recent Government plan to deliver 4,367 acute hospital in-patient beds by 2031.“We are running to stand still and need a commitment of an additional 5,000 acute beds,” said the Irish Medical Organisation . “These practices are currently covered with locum GPs or doctor-in-charge arrangements while permanent solutions are being pursued”, the HSE said.Donnelly has told the Dáil that GPs are “self-employed practitioners and therefore may establish practices at a place of their own choosing”.
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