Accidentally on purpose ? 3980 or over 5000 ?

[bluechilli]

On November 5th 2009, the press office of the department of justice, equality, and law reform stated as the main and only reasons of the new visa requirement for citizens of Mauritius from January 1st 2010 was : " There are currently over 5000 Mauritian nationals registered with the Garda National Immigration Bureau, mostly as students".

On November 20th 2009, the minister of justice, equality and law reform confirmed this information by issuing the same statement in written answers to the Dail.

On November 23th 2009, the press office of the department of justice, equality, and law reform finally responded to a query of November 11th 2009 asking for a breakdown by stamps of citizens of Mauritius registered with GNIB :

Stamp 1 : 71, Stamp 1A : 28, Stamp 2 : 3641, Stamp 3 : 51, Stamp 4 : 125, Stamp 4EUFam : 56 and Stamp 5 : 1

The total number of citiziens of Mauritius registered with GNIB is 3980 so well under "over 5000". On Kildastreet.com, a poll is still organized to vote on the written answer to the Dail of the question 285 : “Does this answer the above question ?â€

[Directive/2004/38/EC]

GNIB appears to me to be very disorganized and poorly trained. I could understand why they would make this, and so many other mistakes.

Why does the difference in numbers matter though? 20% is a big mistake, but doesn't seem to change much...