Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)

I welcome the amendment and the move to the census reports. However, the issue of the link between the personal public service number, PPSN, registration system and the register of electors must be attended to, because the register of electors and the census figures for given areas are showing great disparities throughout the country. In some cases, there are more people on the register of electors than there are people reported in the census. I hope this measure goes somewhat towards clearing up that difficulty. Fundamentally, the elephant in the room is the PPSN issue and that must be addressed.

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