Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 9 May 2013
Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services for 2013
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised)
3:50 pm
Dara Murphy (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
This Vote for a sum of €40 million is the largest of the six under consideration. I am interested to know how Departments are using data generated by the CSO. Do they request information from it? To what extent can they drive the CSO’s work programme and have an input into data gathering? At €39.6 million, it is a resource that should be used to the fullest extent. To what extent is there co-ordination across the European Union and the OECD to ensure data from member states can be compared or contrasted?
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