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:

The first thing, on the economics statistics side, is that EUROSTAT and the European Central Bank, ECB, visit the CSO. We are audited on that side. Every statistic we compile and send to EUROSTAT has to be verified by it independently.