Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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113. To ask the Taoiseach when the next national census will be conducted; and when it is proposed to be concluded. [22956/21]

Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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On the advice of the Central Statistics Office (CSO), the Government decided to postpone the 2021 Census to 3^rdApril 2022. Delivery of census forms to each household will begin on 28^thFebruary and collection of forms will finish on 6^thMay with the expiration of approx. 5,600 field staffs’ temporary employment contracts.

The Central Statistics Office expects to release the preliminary results from Census 2022 by the end of June 2022, with the publication of the official results to commence in the second quarter of 2023. It is expected that the publication schedule will be completed in the first half of 2024.