Low wage immigration undermines conditions of Irish workers

THE recent ESRI report on the Freedom of Movement for Workers from Central and Eastern Europe was, to say the least, slim on substance.

The authors suggested that evidence of displacement of Irish workers was ‘circumstantial’. This must be the new politically correct term for ‘anecdotal’.

If this was valid, one would have to deduce that the laws of supply and demand in the labour market were miraculously suspended.