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Sat 11 Nov 2007Taking stock: migrants in IrelandIf Britain's official estimate of the scale of recent migration could be out by a few hundred thousand people, what about Ireland's?The Minister of State for integration, Conor Lenihan, said recently he believed last year's census gave a "serious underestimate" of the number of foreign nationals living in the country and speculated that the non-Irish population could amount to 13-15 per cent of the total, rather than the 10 per cent reported in the census.