Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

How much money will the Minister make available to local authorities for this new exercise? Has he considered a suggestion made by the leader of the Labour Party in the House yesterday, namely, that the Minister should introduce short legislation to empower the Central Statistics Office to transfer the names, addresses, nationalities and ages of the people included in the census to the registration authorities? It is not confidential information, could be readily transferred and from which an accurate new register could be compiled.

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