Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent)
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Question 1023: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if figures released by the Central Statistics Office in July 2006 via the Census 2006 Preliminary Report will be used by his Department for any reason; if so, what the figures will be used for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29309/06]

Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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The results of the Census of Population are used by many of the policy and operational areas of the Department.

The Census 2006 Preliminary Report, published in July 2006, gives a useful analysis of population change across the country since 2002. However, it is of limited use of the Department since it does not cover the range of topics that will be available in the final Census results. It is understood that the definitive population results will be released between April and December 2007. The full range of census results will be released in a series of subject-matter volumes, which will be widely used across the Department.