Rose Conway Walsh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

There was a change at the time, in terms of the status of farming within the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine that influenced that in some way. It comes back to whether there is a role for the CSO in terms of information, knowledge and recommendations that can be made beyond producing statistics. I ask Mr. Dalton to outline if he sees a role there and what is needed for it to be able to perform a more analytical role.