Niall Collins
Question:75. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Taoiseach the reason Ireland did not provide data for the incidence of exporting published by the OECD in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11555/17]
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The data referred to in the OECD "Entrepreneurship at a Glance 2016 " publication are based on Trade by Enterprise Characteristics (TEC) data, which the Central Statistics Office supplies annually to Eurostat. The 2013 data were transmitted to Eurostat by the deadline in 2015, however at that time the data was marked confidential.
During 2015, the Central Statistics Office implemented major revisions to the trade data to take account of new methodology for the treatment of trade in aircraft. As this revised time series of data had not been published nationally, and was still being incorporated into Balance of Payments and National Accounts statistics, the TEC data submitted to Eurostat were temporarily marked as confidential. When the nationally published data were fully revised in early 2016, the confidentiality marks for the 2013 TEC tables were removed and resubmitted to Eurostat in March 2016.
As a result of this temporary confidentiality flagging of 2013 data, the "Entrepreneurship at a Glance 2016 " report includes 2012 data, but not 2013 data for Ireland. We expect that the OECD will update their website to take account of the 2013 data, and the CSO are currently liaising with Eurostat to clarify issues surrounding the 2014 data before publication on the Eurostat and OECD databases.