asked the Taoiseach if details of the recent census of population are available.

(Dún Laoghaire): The publication schedule for the results of the 1981 Census of Population comprises some 12 volumes. Volume I containing population figures for district electoral divisions, towns and larger units of area was published in September 1982. A further two volumes will be published later this year and the remaining volumes will be issued in 1984 and 1985.

Within the next few weeks, however, advance estimates of a summary nature based on an analysis of a 5 per cent sample of completed census returns will be published. These advance estimates will extend to a number of census topics which will be covered in greater details in various future volumes of the census publication schedule.