Minister of State with responsibility for the CSO Mary Butler said the census would be ‘inclusive, relevant, and future-focused’.

The census will also move from a ‘de facto’ census, which counts everyone where they are staying on a specific night, to a census of the 'usually resident' population.

The ESRI study examines socioeconomic conditions across communities in Ireland.

Fifty-nine per cent of those who described themselves as homeless in Census 2022 were working