Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Exactly. One means the other. The morning the CSO's statistics on the population came out, it was the first topic raised in the Seanad because quite a number of Senators were aspiring to reclaim seats or considering territory where they might have a better chance the next time than the last time because of the CSO's figures.

Regarding compliance rates and response rates, I do not doubt that the 75 large cases are set up in such a way that they engage with the CSO all the time. However, what happens in that regard? I cannot imagine that the CSO gets a 100% response rate from household surveys and so on. Will Mr. Dalton give an indication as to what the compliance rates and the response rates are? Does the CSO do any auditing? If somebody fills in a form and writes something, how does the CSO know whether it is accurate? Does the CSO trust the person or does it have metrics and look for outliers? How does it all work?