Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I want to ask about the rationale for the review not to be with every census. A key part of what the national planning framework is trying to do is to put in place the framework for meeting the needs of our current population and, indeed, future population. The census, by its very nature, is the best indicator and huge public resources go into it at great expense, together everything else. To actually count the population with the information that one gets from that is key in demographic trends and forecasting. The Bill is deciding to have a national planning framework that is not required to tie in legislatively with each census or to use the up-to-date information from each census.

What is the rationale for having all those resources going into collecting all the information and key data for the national planning framework without deciding in the Bill that each census will feed into the framework in real time?