John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is the point I am making. We are told there are databases in the control of Insurance Ireland that would be helpful to the ministerial group of which the Central Statistics Office is part and this committee.

The Central Statistics Office, as a reputable organisation, is the appropriate body to carry out such an analysis which should be general. The questionnaires sent to businesses are very detailed. I noted the other day while reading one of them that if a similar set of questions was asked of the insurance industry, it would be possible to collect a large amount of usable data.