Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I picked out exactly the same sentence about planning and good governance and the point that policies start with good data. We have never had a greater body of data available to us and the ability to manipulate it because, obviously, we have IT systems that allow us to do that. At the same, we have bigger traffic jams, a shortage of school places, schools in the wrong places at the wrong time and a housing mismatch. If it does anything, this highlights that we are not using some of material we should be using in an effective way to deal with these issues. However, the information is there. I cannot resist saying that because it drives me nuts.

In regard to the PULSE system, the old adage "rubbish in, rubbish out" comes to mind, in that, if the material is not inputted and catalogued correctly, it will not give accurate results. At the moment, how confident is the CSO in the Garda statistics? Are there flaws in the PULSE system in addition to the personnel input?