Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy is missing the point. It is a very clever debating point but it is not accurate. I am not trying to "out-data" anybody. I am saying that there is domestically-generated CSO data from January of this year which was not used in the Deputy's main reference, namely, Mr. McWilliams's television programme. Once the current data from the CSO are taking into account, Mr. McWilliams's programme, which was based on the incomplete Credit Suisse data, looks rather exaggerated. That is the point I am making.