Mr. Pádraig Dalton:

The vast majority of the risks in the CSO are statistical in nature. Of our budget, 78% is attributable to wages and salaries. We do not have a programme budget, only an administrative one. We put the risks across three fronts - financial, statistical and technological. The types of risk we have identified relate to ensuring that we have a budget that supports our corporate objective of providing data for decision makers and for accountability. We always concentrate on ensuring that we have the appropriate funding in place.