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:

That is why we have established the expert group, which is going to look at a broad range of issues. It will look at the existing suite of indicators and determine which of those indicators we could give greater prominence to and whether we could provide greater detail on those. It is also going to look at the potential for new indicators that will provide a better insight into what is happening in the domestic economy. We are already working on this and I have already identified some of the work we are doing. The Senator can rest assured we are working very hard on producing a broader suite of indicators that will provide the insights international users need. We have brought together this very expert group of people who will definitely provide some very useful recommendations to us as to the appropriate way for us to move forward.

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