Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am as perplexed as everybody else seems to be. Could the Minister tell the House whether the 1.3 million households equates to everyone who is entitled to register or is it an estimate? They are two different things. Is it an estimate or is it the figure that the Minister believes is the total number of those entitled to register? If his figure is that much lower than the CSO figure of 1.65 million households is that potentially a concession from the outset that the Government does not expect 365,000 households will register? Is it an admission of defeat at the beginning?

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