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:

There are a number of them. We are peer reviewed by EUROSTAT and we have what are called Excessive Deficit Procedure, EDP, visits and gross national income, GNI, audits. They are independently carried out. We also have a review against the European statistics code of practice peer review. That is normally undertaken by a three person team. The last time it was comprised the former heads of statistics from Estonia, Spain and Latvia. All three were independent and all of those reports are published. We also have-----