Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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132. To ask the Taoiseach the Ministers or officials that have pre-release access to official statistics in tabular form; the official statistics to which each Minister has pre-release access; and the length of time before official release they have access. [27041/17]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The CSO's Policy on Pre-Release Access is published at .

The policy specifies that the CSO’s standard practice is that statistics are released to all users at the same time and any form of pre-release access is a privilege. No ministers are given pre-release access by the CSO. The list of persons with pre-release access privileges is published at