Ms Gillian Roche:

EUROSTAT has a role in ensuring the consistency of Government finance statistics and the coverage of the composition of the government sector across all EU member states. This is why it focuses on certain sectors and requests countries to conduct reviews. The issue of housing more generally was being discussed with EUROSTAT, and this brought to light the classification of the AHBs. More generally, it is not a case of us being targeted. These kinds of discussions go on all the time for different sectors, and EUROSTAT looks across all countries to ensure consistency of treatment. This is just one example.