Mr. Pádraig Dalton:

Not relative to the size of some of these companies, absolutely not. Our own experience is that it took us eight years in one case to reach a conclusion and in that period we got no data. We were lucky it was not one of the big players. Had it been, I am quite sure I would have been in front of another Oireachtas committee being asked why the CSO's data on gross domestic product, GDP, gross national product, GNP and the new gross national income*, GNI* were not fully capturing activity within the economy as a whole. That is the big concern.