As the Government have not got some vital statistics required from time to time to assess future development does the Parliamentary Secretary indicate that no future planning can or will take place as a result of the lack of statistical information necessary and desirable in order to carry out effective forward planning?

The Deputy knows perfectly well that the Central Statistics Office collects information, in all kinds of ways, which is perfectly adequate to enable large scale economic planning to take place. We are not dependent on the individual household census which in other countries, countries who have nothing to apologise for in regard to their economic record, never takes place except at ten-year intervals.

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