Pat Carey (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)

It will not be possible to compile that type of information in the proposed census survey. The Deputy will have seen on the database, in terms of household characteristics, the type of categories of questions that must be answered. The type of information required includes the type of accommodation, the year the house was built, the nature of occupancy of the household, rent paid, number of rooms, central heating, water supply, sewage facilities, number of cars and vans, PC ownership and Internet connectivity. These are the questions that are honed in on. While most of them are covered by EU regulation others including the type of accommodation, whether the property is rented or purchased, whether it has central heating, the number of cars and vans, PC ownership and Internet connectivity are chosen by member states. The specific information which Deputy McManus seeks to be sought is not covered in the already agreed questions for the 2011 census.

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