Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

Deputy Kenny asked a number of questions. I spoke of census enumerators or other temporary staff being used and ring-fenced resources used for overtime or weekend work. Therefore, it is obviously a matter of additional bodies to help.

Every local authority has its own system. The problem is that while people such as rate collectors and others are involved in collecting the information, there are not many of them. That is certainly true in Dublin for many years. While the campaign to get people onto the register is very active, what happens is that people never come off it. I have seen houses in my constituency where 80 people are supposedly living.

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