Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

Will the Tánaiste consider Deputy Quinn's request? The only thing preventing his suggestion from happening is that we are hidebound by tradition. Why can the Cabinet not make a decision to cause the CSO enumerators to deliver the second form? We are asking them to deliver and collect it accurately, not to assist people to fill in the form. Why can it not be done? Is it pure tradition in that we never did it this way, so we will not do it? Why can it not be considered rationally by the Cabinet and an instruction given?

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