Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Sure. In the previous month, June, the Department of Finance published its summer economic statement and predicted real GDP growth of 7.8%, at that stage. Given that the CSO had been working behind the scenes for a number of months, is the CSO prohibited from sending any signal or providing any information, albeit in preliminary form, to the Department of Finance to say there is a major change coming down the track?