On the figures for remittances and Noel Grelish. Bit of a long thread but unfortunately the facts kinds demand it. Anyway, to flesh out @RuthCoppingerTD 's yesterday, "What is the Deputy Grealish? This is disgraceful racism" - here we go...

There are no official statistics on remittances from Ireland to other countries.

We have figures that are published by the World Bank and IMF, but these are guesstimates worked out by the individual countries that are receiving the remittances.

These are worked out using two inputs:

1. no. of migrants in a particular country (in this case, the number of Nigerian migrants in Ireland)

2. The GDP per capita of that particular country (that is the GDP per capita of Ireland)

See note three here - https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/bilateral-remittance-flows

So, in 2018, Nigeria had a total remittance inflow of $24.3bn dollars. The Nigerian authorities then take that figure and "allocate" remittances to individual countries - based not on the actual inflows, but on a guesstimate of those inflows using the two inputs above.

This led them to give Ireland an "allocation" of $539 million dollars. They did this using 1) no. of Nigerian migrants in Ireland and 2) Ireland's GDP per capita.

Sounds simple enough, until we start to look at Ireland's GDP..

GDP per capita is worked out by dividing the GDP of a country by its population.

In Ireland's case this works out as $75,192 per person.

Makes you wonder why there is ANY poverty in Ireland, or housing crisis, if we're all getting $75,192 each per year, no?

Problem is, Ireland's GDP is a work of fiction - a figure based on so-called 'Leprechaun Economics' where our GDP is hugely inflated by phantom FDI flows through Ireland for tax avoidance purposes.

This is why Ireland has a higher GDP per capita than Canada, and helps explain why the remittance "allocation" to Nigerian migrants in Ireland is higher than for Canada - even though Canada has more Nigerian migrants. This is because its GDP per capita is way lower than Ireland

Noel Grelish could have gone into the Dáil yesterday and said that while the average wage in Ireland is €36,000, the GDP per capita is €68,000 so where is the other €32,000 coming from? The Irish must be stealing it.

He didn't say that of course, but he did say it about Nigerians.

Which is why Noel Grelish is a cunt.

Remittances sent home to Ireland in the 1950s and 60s. The figure for 1960 is equivalent to €262m in today's money.