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:
We will definitely look into that for the Deputy and try to come back with a comprehensive answer. We always urge people not to just look at monthly figures but to look at the longer-term trend because specific issues can impact on monthly figures. When I was in Mr. Ring's shoes and was responsible for the quarterly national household survey, QNHS, I always used to say that one month does not make a trend. We would always look over the next number of quarters to see if this was the emergence of a trend.
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