Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government
Housing in Ireland - Census 2016 Results: Central Statistics Office
9:30 am
Mr. Pádraig Dalton:
I will hand over to Mr. Halpin, who managed the field force and field operation for census 2016, in a moment. On the comment about the accuracy of the vacancy data, it goes back to what I said at the outset. We had 5,000 people working in every part of the country and visiting every single house over a period of ten weeks. We can certainly stand over the methodology we applied to identify vacant houses. Mr. Halpin can provide more detail on that. I am not sure what methodology the individual to whom Deputy O'Dowd referred had for identifying vacant houses.
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