§ Major GLYNasked the Secretary of State for the Colonios what was the number of Irish emigrants embarked at Irish ports for destination outside the United Kingdom, especially in vessels sailing for the United States of America, for the last six months ending the 30th of June; whether any estimate. has been made of the diminution of emigration from Ireland since 1914: and what is the estimated population of Ireland at the present time compared with 1914 and 1918?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLI regret that I am not in a position to furnish the exact 1281W figures asked for; but in the year 1921, 12,248 emigrants left Irish ports, of whom 11,417 proceeded to the United States of America. The corresponding average figures for the. years 1910–14 were 27,096 and 20,882. No statistics have been published for the current year. As regards the last part of the question, the population of Ireland in 1911, the date of the last census, was 4,390,219. No later figure is available as, owing to the disturbed state of the country, it was not found possible to hold the census in Ireland in 1921.