Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 October 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office

10:00 am

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I must compliment the CSO on the significant amount of information it compiles and presents on its website. Making it as user-friendly as possible is some achievement. We as legislators rely quite heavily on it to get the correct facts and data.

On the revision of the GDP figures of a 26% growth rate this summer, the CSO came under intense criticism, including from Members on the floor of the Dáil. The country was labelled with the tag "leprechaun economics" and the blame was laid at the CSO's feet. What does Mr. Pádraig Dalton say to those who blame the CSO for this revision?

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