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Fri 01 Jan 2009Citizens from new EU states take 47% less PPS numbers
THE NUMBER of citizens from the EU’s newer members states who registered to work or to access public services in the Republic almost halved in the second half of last year, suggesting a dramatic easing of inward migration as the recession set in.
Government figures show that some 33,200 people from those states that joined the bloc since 2004 were granted PPS numbers between July and December, a fall of 47 per cent on the same period in 2007.
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