Census-form deliveries hampered by lack of access to apartments
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) is urging apartment managers to allow its officials access to apartment blocks.
This follows feedback from staff who are experiencing difficulties getting into apartment buildings to hand out the forms.
The census is due to be taken in all homes on Sunday, April 24.
The form must be hand delivered to every household in the country, including apartments, to allow householders to ask any questions they may have.
Following the census, the forms must be collected by the census enumerator, before they are returned to the CSO for analysis.
According to Deirdre Cullen, Senior Statistician at the CSO: "We are hearing from census enumerators that they cannot gain entry to some gated communities.
"This was a problem for us during the 2011 census, but it seems to be posing a greater challenge this time around. I am calling on the managers of these developments to cooperate with the census enumerator."
"We understand that security is a concern. All census enumerators carry official CSO identification and their identity can be verified by calling 1850 2016 04," added Ms Cullen.
Every household in the country is legally required to complete a census form on census night.
