Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

CSO figures are the figures we use so let us not try to use other figures. The CSO figures are the basket of figures we use for measuring inflation. I said at the outset that the figures were up for the past five or six months and that half of the increase, excluding energy and interest rates, 2.1%, is the rate of inflation. The price of the overall basket of food items has been very low. I gave the facts yesterday.

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