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- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. Dalton for that. The first speaker is Deputy Aylward, who has a maximum of 20 minutes. Each other speaker will have ten minutes. We will conclude this session in an hour's time because there is another session to be dealt with before lunch. I ask members to be as tight as possible in their contributions.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: Next are Deputies Connolly and Murphy. These are ten-minute slots.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: That is fine.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: The CSO's annual report from 2017 contains a very big appendix with all the timelines of the different reports. One part refers to "System Health Accounts". If the witnesses do not have the answer now, they can send it on to the committee. There is a timescale of a year and a half, or 78 weeks. What are those statistics and why does it take a year and a half to get them? Surely the CSO...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: In the CSO report published last May, the figures were for 2014. We are a long way back on-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: I ask for an up to date note on when the 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 figures-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: I have a non-financial question on county income and GDP. I regularly see on a regional basis and sometimes on a county basis, average income per household. It outlines how well off a county is and how far below Dublin we all are in annual income. They always seem to be quite a few years old when we get them. Can important statistics like that not be more up to- date? I think they relate...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: I ask Ms Banim to send us a note on the last set of-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: ----- county and regional income figures.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: I ask for it to show where we are in the more recent estimates even if they are not finalised. Many counties would like to know where they stand on that figure. In his opening statement Mr. Dalton mentioned telephone interviews. Are they calls to landlines or mobile phones? If they are calls to mobile phones, the CSO could be talking to somebody on holidays in the Canaries. How does it...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: Therefore it starts with a physical meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: Therefore the CSO knows whom it is interviewing and where they are located.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: That is my question. I ask for a detailed note in respect of the State balance sheet, which is often referred to here. I want to know where the universities and institutes of technologies are on the State balance sheet. Time is tight now. We would prefer a proper note on that. The issue of the housing agencies came up here recently. We got some reports, some of the big ones, around...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: If we are out of time, I ask for the CSO to send us a note.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: It did not help in how the CSO was seen. I have noted that the CSO frequently uses the word "independent". It looked like a pawn of the Government in that. It was making a case that did not make sense to people because most of Irish Water's income was coming from public sources. The bid did not succeed. I know the Department of Finance was probably very supportive of it. Before this...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: Is Mr. Dalton saying EUROSTAT got it wrong?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: Ms Banim is essentially saying the CSO based its element of the process on the business case that came from the line Department. It was making a business case that it wanted it to succeed. It looks like the CSO took what it was saying as-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: It is always back to that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: The CSO will send us a note on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Seán Fleming: Given that domestic water charges are now gone, I do not understand why somebody is trying to make a case at this stage.