Ms Edel McGinley:

CSO census data for 2016 collect occupations. It is very difficult to break the data down into occupations because there are so many and they are collected in very different ways. Unfortunately, the Labour Force Survey, which is one of our better surveys, does not collect these data at a low enough level to drill into that so we only really have top-line data. What we would really need to see is a special module conducted by the CSO to look at this industry in particular in order to try to drill down into it. The committee could request a special module to look at the sector in more depth, and the CSO could look at that, but that would be survey data. That is ultimately so important. We are relying on 2016 data. Neither our labour force survey nor the business survey - I cannot remember the name of it - collects these data, so that would be really good to have.