Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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Question 111: To ask the Taoiseach if he will introduce physiological audit management procedure to record gambling related deaths here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11040/12]

Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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The Central Statistics Office applies the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10) and the associated international rules for determining the appropriate classification to the recording and compilation of official underlying cause of death statistics. The ICD classification is broadly based on the aetiology rather than the manifestation of diseases and gambling is not catered for as a category within this internationally agreed classification. Under EU law (Commission Regulation n° 328/2011 on Causes of Death) the CSO is legally obliged to codify underlying cause of death statistics to the ICD classification.

The CSO is not familiar with the Physiological Audit Management Procedure (PAMP) for the codification of official underlying cause of death statistics.

Contacts in both the World Health Organisation and EUROSTAT have also confirmed that they are unaware of the procedure or of its use in the generation of official mortality statistics.