Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein)
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169. To ask the Taoiseach the population changes in the Ballymun area, Dublin, from 1997 to date in 2015. [7726/15]

Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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The total population of the Ballymun electoral divisions (Ballymun A, Ballymun B, Ballymun C, Ballymun D, Ballymun E and Ballymun F) in the 1996 Census of Population (no Census was held in 1997) was 21,366. According to the most recent Census of Population (2011), the population in this area was 20,141.

Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein)
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170. To ask the Taoiseach the percentage of the population in Ballymun, Dublin, that are lone parents; and the changes that have taken place since 1997. [7727/15]

Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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According to the 1996 Census of Population (no Census was held in 1997) there were 2,086 family units classified as lone parents in the Ballymun electoral divisions (Ballymun A, Ballymun B, Ballymun C, Ballymun D, Ballymun E and Ballymun F), accounting for 38.4 per cent of all families. According to the most recent Census of Population (2011), lone parents accounted for 41.5 per cent of all families, amounting to 2,246 families.