MADS HAAHR,
Sir, - While I accept that counting so many people on April 28th last must have been a difficult undertaking, I myself have found it difficult to be counted.
I live in a building with eight flats, none of which had received census forms by April 28th. On May 3rd, I attempted to download the forms from the CSO website and distribute them among my neighbours, but the forms had been removed from the website. Next, I e-mailed the CSO at census@cso.ie requesting that forms be delivered electronically or physically to our building, but I never received a reply.
While no census can ever be complete, the lack of response from the CSO in this matter does raise some concern about the rigidity with which the April census was conducted. None of the eight households in my building will appear in the statistics. - Yours, etc.,
Mads Haahr,
Westland Row,
Dublin 2.