The public have been issued a warning by the Central Statistics Office who say everyone must fill in their Census form because it is their legal responsibility to do so.
The warning comes as the CSO say that all forms must be completed by Sunday evening and any failure to so so could result in prosecution. Although there are many rumours circulating questioning the importance of the Census, the CSO have confirmed the data will only be used for compiling statistical tables.
The latest call comes as forms are still being delivered to homes around the country and the CSO say anyone who hasn’t yet received their form should contact them immediately.
Meanwhile Deirdre Cullen from the CSO told reporters: “Where you are on the night of Sunday 24, you go on that Census form. But if your spouse is away on the night you put them down as an absent person so then you still have the family unit.
“Foreign vistors to Ireland on Census night will be on the Irish Census. People in hospitals, nursing homes, people on cruise ships, the Irish Census is everybody who is in Ireland on the night of Sunday 24.”