Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

No member of this committee should be interfering with the methodology for the census. The CSO staff are the professionals and we do not deal with the matter. However, the CSO’s exercise has thrown up some really important questions regarding our understanding of the private rental sector. If there were some way of doing what I suggest – it could be through administrative data rather than changing the census question – it could be beneficial. It would be a terrible shame if all the hard work and the current report did not benefit the 2027 census. However, the CSO has its processes and I will not interfere.