Results 241-260 of 7,970 for speaker:Hildegarde Naughton
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024) Hildegarde Naughton: I will come back to the committee on that because the Deputy makes a very valid point. I am sorry but I do not have that information to hand.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024) Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the Deputy for her questions and I will refer back to committee.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024) Hildegarde Naughton: I will have to come back to the Deputy on the import and export details on meat and dairy products just to give him a better answer. With regard to the business question, we have the labour force survey, LFS, which is produced by the CSO each quarter. This is the official source of estimates of employment in the State. Regional estimates of employment are produced at NUTS level 3, the...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024) Hildegarde Naughton: It is important to give credit where credit is due. In response to the Deputy's question, the CSO was peer reviewed and there were no flaws detected. This shows the standard and quality of data garnered by the Central Statistics Office. There is a lot of oversight and a lot of peer reviews that take place to make sure the data is as accurate as possible.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024) Hildegarde Naughton: We had very accurate Covid figures during that time. The Deputy will be aware we did not do the census during 2021 because of Covid. We deferred that until 2022. The Covid figures were very accurate. There was also a data room set up for Departments to carry out modelling during Covid.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024) Hildegarde Naughton: The CSO collates the data it looks at. That is not climate change, per se. It looks at energy and fossil fuel usage across the country and CO2 outputs in that context. The wider question the Deputy is asking is about everyone playing their part in reducing CO2 emissions. I would say everyone in every country is grappling. Fingers have been pointed at particular sectors. Here, the...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024) Hildegarde Naughton: The Deputy makes a good point. This is where the CSO is now moving to. It is not just about providing data and statistics but also about feeding into Government policy and policymakers, making sure our policies are based on evidence, facts and trends. The Deputy mentioned population movement. I can provide a report from the census data in relation to population movement. We also have...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024) Hildegarde Naughton: The CSO budget allocation for 2024 is €82.62 million. The gross allocation includes €3.1 million from the national recovery resilience plan, NRPP. That is the funding for the online service.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024) Hildegarde Naughton: Yes.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024) Hildegarde Naughton: There is an internal audit committee. However, the CSO is also peer reviewed at an EU level and there is an internal audit committee.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024) Hildegarde Naughton: It is made up of directors general from various national statistical organisations. I can find out the number of people on the committee. I might get that information shortly.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024) Hildegarde Naughton: Yes.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024) Hildegarde Naughton: The director general appoints the committee.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024) Hildegarde Naughton: They include both internal and external persons.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024) Hildegarde Naughton: About one third of the committee members are external.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024) Hildegarde Naughton: I will have to come back to the Cathaoirleach with a breakdown.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024) Hildegarde Naughton: I will get those figures for the Cathaoirleach.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024) Hildegarde Naughton: We have some data from census night, which will come in for the census, but the Department of Justice has almost all of that information I imagine. However, I will come back in relation to that.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024) Hildegarde Naughton: The Cathaoirleach has raised a valid point. I will certainly raise with the CSO the issue of getting that data.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024) Hildegarde Naughton: With the census every year, a review is done on the questions asked. Many of the questions are dictated by EU regulations. The Chairman has just raised a specific issue relating to transport. If he feels there are specific difficulties relating to the types of questions asked, we would certainly welcome that feedback.