Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 February 2017
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised)
11:10 am
Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
I agree completely with the Chairman on the independence and reliability of the data collected and presented by the CSO. I thank him for the compliment on behalf of the 755 staff who work in it. The idea has merit. To answer his question, I do not know whether within the Vote and staff numbers we would have the capacity to do it and, more importantly, whether we would have access to information on claims. It would be reliant on the Dáil passing legislation to require providers of insurance policies to meet the information requirements that would be involved in keeping an accurate and reflective census of claims. The idea certainly has merit and is one at which we could look.
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