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

Mr. Pádraig Dalton:

We cannot go beyond what we have said about a small number. I want to contextualise it a little bit. Our ability to compile official statistics and to provide evidence for decision-makers like the members and for decision-makers outside of the policy of Government is very important. If we breach the trust that respondents place in us by divulging any information, either directly or indirectly by anything we could say, we will not be in a position to compile economic statistics. As far as I can go, I am not going to say it was less than five, ten or 15. All I can say to the Deputy is that it was a small number of enterprises and I cannot go any further than that.

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