Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 April 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office

9:00 am

Photo of Bobby AylwardBobby Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thought that might be the case.

The committee has heard a great deal about the PULSE system, including its capabilities and lack of capabilities. I note the CSO suspended publishing statistics from PULSE in 2014 and resumed publishing statistics from it in 2017. On its website, the CSO states that:

The CSO recognises that the deferral of these important statistics results in an information gap and is a source of frustration to users. The CSO has taken the decision to resume publication of Recorded Crime statistics under a new category "Under Reservation".

I want to ask Mr. Dalton about this category. The CSO suspended publication of PULSE statistics because of question marks about the system and then started publishing them again in 2017 under a category entitled "Under Reservation". Will Mr. Dalton explain what this category means?

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