Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 July 2022

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Economic Quarterly Report - Summer 2020: Economic and Social Research Institute

Dr. Karina Doorley:

The CSO would probably say that it is understaffed if it was here. It does an enormous amount of work with a relatively small number of staff. I could imagine that if it was here to answer that question, it would want more staff and more funds to collect this kind of data because it is time-intensive to collect the data, clean and collate it and make it available to researchers like us to put it to use for policy questions.