A top Irish solicitor has warned the Irish public that failure to complete and return the Census form could result in prosecution.
The Census takes place on April 3, with the Central Statistics Office saying it will help to generate a detailed picture of social and living conditions in Ireland.
A team of 5,100 enumerators have started delivering over two million forms to every household in the country.
A number of things are expected to be different in the 2022 Census from the last one, including a major growth in Ireland's population and a rise in the number of people identifying themselves as having no religion.
Census forms are available in Irish and English while guides are also available in another 22 languages to assist those for whom Irish or English is not a first language.
A range of additional accessibility supports and ‘how to’ guides are available on census.ie.
But one of Ireland's leading solicitors has warned people that they must complete the Census form and return it - or they could face a punishment.
Richard Grogan explained on his popular TikTok channel: "People are contacting me saying they don't want to fill out the Census form.
"Well, if you don't want to fill it out and you choose not to fill it out, then you can be prosecuted. And the Government do prosecute.
"That's the law and that's a fact."
And in the original act for the Census, it states that everybody present in the country on Census Night must be included, under the Statistics Act of 1993.
The act reads: "A person guilty of an offence under any provision of this Act shall be liable to : (a) on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding €1,000, or (b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding €20,000.
