Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It did not help in how the CSO was seen. I have noted that the CSO frequently uses the word "independent". It looked like a pawn of the Government in that. It was making a case that did not make sense to people because most of Irish Water's income was coming from public sources. The bid did not succeed. I know the Department of Finance was probably very supportive of it. Before this committee its officials would have said the CSO had great experts who knew all about EUROSTAT as part of putting the proposal together.