Ms Hannah Gilmartin:

The CSO, in its statistical progress reports, look at each of the 169 targets. There are indicators for each of the targets and there are approximately 244 indicators. The CSO very much looks at the indicator level. The CSO works with Departments and the relevant policy areas in respect of the reports the CSO develops. It is not a case that the CSO is working on them in isolation. The Departments are very aware of the data and help source the data.

At present, there are 16 reports available and the 17th will become available in the next month. The intention of the Central Statistics Office is to update its reports annually. That has not been done to date but it is very much its priority going forward because, at this point, the CSO has identified all of the relevant data required. It was a very large exercise to bring all those data together whereas now it will be an updating exercise. It will be annually going forward, and then the data governance board has the role of sending that back out to its policy areas. There is a large overlap between the data governance board and the SDG interdepartmental working group. There is an overlap between policy and data.