Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 10 October 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Analysis of Private Rental Sector Discrepancies: Discussion
Mr. Cormac Halpin:
Yes, that will certainly form part of it. I cannot, at the moment, preempt what is done because we have not scoped it out but I expect that will be part of the exercise.
On the Deputy's second question around the leasing situation, there is a process under way at the moment to look at the content of the 2027 census questionnaire. I can certainly take that back when the questions are being formulated. What I would say is that for all census questions, a key principle is that they should be as comprehensible and easy to understand as possible. They go to a very wide range of households across the country in terms of literacy and the ability to understand the questions. There is an onus on the CSO to make sure they are as comprehensible to as many people as possible but we want to capture good data. That is the overriding priority as well. That is a point that we can take back in and present to the census advisory group, which makes the decisions on the content of the questionnaire.
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