Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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135. To ask the Taoiseach if State agencies, including the CSO and Pobal, pay intellectual property fees for the use of the deprivation index (details supplied); the cost per annum of same; and the justification for this in view of the reliance of the index on publicly collected data. [27701/17]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The Pobal HP Deprivation Index is a method of measuring the relative affluence or disadvantage of a particular geographical area using data compiled from the census.

The index is freely available to all on the Pobal website. It can be accessed as an excel download for Electoral Divisions or through the map interface which presents deprivation scores for Small Areas. Users can also run reports for Local Authority areas which provide a list of the Small Areas within that Local Authority area along with the accompanying deprivation scores and census data.

The full index at Small Area level in excel format is also freely available to all public sector bodies, including the CSO, directly from Trutz Haase.

The census data used to create the index is based on the CSO’s small area population dataset which is also freely available on the CSO website. The 2016 census small area data will be available on the 20 of July 2016.