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Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (28 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: Just to explain, normally this is Taoiseach's Questions but the Taoiseach is not here, so I am stepping in for any questions on the legislative programme.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (28 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank both Deputies for their questions. This session is on legislation. With regard to agriculture, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has prioritised one Bill for publication during this parliamentary session. That is the agriculture appeals (amendment) Bill. The general scheme of the Bill was approved at Cabinet on 16 January this year and it is undergoing...

Electoral (Home Addresses of Candidates) Bill 2024: First Stage (28 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: No.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (28 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 5, inclusive, together. The Government legislation programme, which was published on 16 January 2024, sets out Government legislative priorities for the current parliamentary session. The current programme includes 46 Bills for priority publication and drafting across a number of areas, including healthcare, access to housing, stronger safer...

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 Chairman for the opportunity to appear before the select committee as members consider the Revised Estimate for Vote 4. As Ireland’s national statistical institute, the Central Statistics Office is an independent office under the Statistics Act 1993, and is responsible for the production, co-ordination and qualitative oversight of official statistics for Ireland. 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: There is an upcoming joint release on the findings of census 2022 and NISRA's census of 2021. Northern Ireland carried out its census during Covid, while we, as the Senator will know, deferred ours until 2022. The release highlights the potential for co-operation to provide insights on an all-island basis. This is the second such combined document on our census. In 2011, a joint...

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 difficulty, as the Senator outlined, is that Northern Ireland conducts its census every ten years, whereas we do ours every five years. The amalgamation of the results of the Northern Ireland 2021 census and our 2022 census is coming later in the year. There is a very good relationship between the North and the South, but I think the CSO always endeavours to make sure we have the most...

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 will continue to work closely with NISRA because it is in all our interests that we make sure the evidence is there, that the data is correct and as accurate as possible, and that if it is not accurate, those inaccuracies will be highlighted. Nevertheless, the Senator makes a very valid point.

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: In respect of the ESRI, I will certainly raise that and follow up with the CSO in the context of its work on 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 CSO works closely with the UK and liaises closely with our EU counterparts and colleagues in the UK.

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 are training sessions, I understand, for the media, public representatives and anyone who is interested.

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 revert to the Senators with a full report on that, but there are indicators from a range of areas, from environment to public health. We will revert to Senator Higgins with a list of where the data comes from specifically.

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: A report on gender statistics will come out, I understand, in about a month. It used to be done yearly but has moved to being done every two to three years.

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 relay 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: A report by the CSO on homelessness will come out at the end of April, over the next few months. The agency will establish a new housing division that will look at a broader range of issues around this to address the exact issue the Deputy has highlighted.

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 with a detailed response on the CSO. I do not have the detail on 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: I will source that data. The Deputy needs it for her answer. Other countries do have different methods of collating data, but I know the Deputy's question is specifically on the CSO.

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...