Kieran O'Donnell (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

For 2015 the CSO produced preliminary figures and the big change came when it produced the final figures. That was on the basis of interaction with multinational companies. The ordinary person looking in will ask why that happened. Did the CSO not consider preparing a publication which stripped out the exceptional items and, almost like a structural deficit, gave a structural GDP-GNP figure and then a real figure which would strip out the exceptional items? Did the CSO consider doing that and will it consider doing it into the future?