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:

It really came from the inspectorate report back in 2014. To be honest, it would have been impossible for the CSO to identify the issues the inspectorate report came up with because we would not have had access to the data required to get into that level of detail, and we would never have been in a position to get the access to the information that was required to unearth those issues. We do now, however, because, subsequently, following on from all of the engagement with the Garda Síochána, gardaí now make all information available to us to assess the quality of Garda data accurately.