Ossian Smyth (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)
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I feel that the civil servants are looking at me now. I will send you a note, Chair, to clarify how the indicators are agreed, the process whereby they are agreed, how long it takes before an indicator is agreed and then data are got out of it. It would be an idea to think of which indicators we should be following. That should be something between maybe the committee and the Department to follow what it is we should be measuring each year.

To go back to Deputy Bruton's point about the timeliness, the publication schedule should not be such that we have an indicator that comes out just after the REV is published. If the REV is published in December, we will not get our full-year stats. We want to look at that and make sure that the data are as up to date as possible.