Yesterday, the Taoiseach was asked about legislation on money leaving the country which is earned by migrant workers here. An extraordinary figure of billions of euro was given about one particular group. The Taoiseach will agree that it is important the Dáil record is accurate and corrected.

Today, UNITE, IBEC and others have put out the real figure for that group which is €17 million per annum. The Deputy who raised it knew full well because he got an answer on 22 October in the Dáil but he chose not to use that figure. Obviously, the truth was unimportant in comparison to his aim. He actually exaggerated the figure by over 31 times.

If the Deputy is very concerned about money leaving the country, he could look no further than Apple, Google, Facebook and many other multinationals which have large turnover here. However, I do not think Deputy Grealish cared about that. He had no problem with the €64 billion leaving the country to bail out foreign and native banks.

Thank you Deputy. The time is up.

He had no problem sending cervical smear testing abroad which his former party pioneered.

On one final point about the Nigerian community, a Cheann Comhairle.

The Deputy is way over time I am afraid.

One in four of my constituents is from outside of Ireland. I have been inundated with calls from people. Nigerians and many other groups-----

The time applies to the Deputy the same as everybody else. The Deputy is out of time.

They drive our taxis, staff our hospitals and work as carers. They are entitled to earn money and the few hundred euro they send abroad-----

Please, Deputy.

It is important this is corrected. It got massive publicity yesterday. For 20 hours, these figures were reported uncorrected.

That was the point.

On a point of information and clarity, the figures we have from the Central Statistics Office, which is under my Department and a well-regarded and reliable statistical agency, indicate that remittances from Ireland to Nigeria are about €17 million a year, which is not an enormous figure. For Poland, it is €342 million; Latvia, €50 million; Hungary, €28 million - I could go on. These are the figures from the CSO.

The figures Deputy Grealish used were from the World Bank. I understand the World Bank remittance figures relating to Nigeria are estimates provided to the World Bank by the Nigerian authorities and are not actual data. We believe the World Bank migration remittances back book in respect of remittance flows between Ireland and Nigeria are open to serious scrutiny. We believe our statistics are the accurate ones and not those of the Nigerian authorities.