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

Mr. Pádraig Dalton:

I understand. It has to do with clarity around the rules. For example, when the CSO compiles statistics, we must use manuals and clear guidelines, which come from EUROSTAT. Every member state must compile statistics in the same way. My point in this instance is that there is not enough clarity around the crime recording rules. Therefore, it becomes difficult for members of the Garda who are trying to put data into the PULSE system to do so in a consistent way across the regions.