Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

This year, together with the Central Bank, the ESRI and others, my Department examined the question of how to improve forecasting in order to be as accurate as possible, not that we were very inaccurate. Obviously, it is always difficult to project or predict improvement in property markets, depending on the extent of activity that occurs. I will receive that report shortly.

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