Michael Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Several questions emerged from last June’s 26% increase in economic growth. The CSO gave us confidentiality reasons as to why a rational reason could not be given for this. Is there any anticipation of fluctuations for the 2016 report which could lead to another mockery of Ireland’s economic growth rates? Will a sound economic rebuttal be available to answer how the figures were arrived at? I understand the CSO and the Government were able to explain the figures to the European Union. Were there any corrections to the commentary made by some European institutions about last year's figures? Were there any acknowledgments from these institutions that they were wrong?

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