Irish people are staying at home with their parents until they are 25-years-old.

A new study by Eurostat has found it is harder for men to leave their parental home than women, with Irish men waiting until they are just over 26 - compared to just under 25 for women.

The figures are in sharp contrast to those for Scandinavian countries, where children are barely out of their teens when they leave home to get their own place.

Eurostat says the average age of young people leaving the parental household was 26.1 in 2013.

The three Nordic member states were, by far, the countries where young people left home earliest: at 19.6 years in Sweden, 21 years in Denmark and 21.9 years in Finland.

Source: Eurostat

They were followed by the Netherlands, France and Germany.

At the other end of the scale, young people in Croatia remained the longest in the parental household, with an average age of 31.9, ahead of Slovakia, Malta, and Italy.

The "Being young in Europe today" survey also reveals that Ireland has the youngest population in Europe with one million people - or just over one-fifth of the population - under the age of 15.

We were followed by France (18.6%), the United Kingdom (17.6%), Denmark (17.2%), Sweden (17.1%) and Belgium (17.0%).

While those with the lowest shares of young people where seen in Germany (13.1%), Bulgaria (13.7%) and Italy (13.9%).

Owen Connolly of Connolly Counselling spoke to Newstalk Lunchtime this afternoon about the findings. But first the people of Dublin offered their opinions on the subject of children moving out:

Originally posted at 8.39am