Number of new EU-State Workers coming Ireland down

Dublin- One of the reasons that the number of workers coming to Ireland from the new EU accession states is down is that many of the likely migrants are here already.
That's according to figures from the Department of Social and Family affairs. The number of PPS numbers issued to foreign workers was over 23,000 in the first two months of 2007; while that figure was almost 14,500 for the same period of this year.