Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State. My first question relates to North-South co-operation. She might be aware that we at the Good Friday Agreement committee are undertaking work on the impact of the constitutional change that would bring about a united Ireland, and we are looking at it sector by sector. We have come up repeatedly against the issue of directly comparable figures between the CSO and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency. Could we have an overview of how the CSO engages with NISRA to ensure we align our data collection in order that direct comparisons can be made? We made a submission from both this committee and the budgetary oversight committee to the CSO a number of months ago asking it to look at better congruence between the two jurisdictions in order that we will be able to compare like for like.