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In February 2025, a Memorandum of Understanding between the CSO and QQI in relation to technical matters, data exchange, security, quality and frequency, was signed by Ms Jennifer Banim, Director General of the CSO, and Dr Padraig Walsh, Chief Executive Officer of QQI. The purpose of this MoU is to clarify the roles and responsibilities of, as well as the areas of cooperation between, the CSO and QQI with regard to QQI sharing data with the CSO.
In January 2024, a Statistical Agreement between the Central Statistics Office and Quality and Qualifications Ireland was signed. It has been agreed between the two parties to collaborate on a statistical project that will utilise the full statistical potential of QQI data sources in order to further facilitate development of evidence-based policy and decision-making. The legal basis of the collaboration is Section 11(1) of the Statistics Act, 1993.
In January 2019, a Memorandum of Understanding between the CSO and QQI (PDF 161KB) was signed in relation to provision of QQI held data to the CSO. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed by Mr. Pádraig Dalton, Director General of the CSO, and Dr. Padraig Walsh, Chief Executive Officer of QQI. The purpose of this MoU is to clarify the roles, responsibilities and the areas of cooperation between the CSO and QQI regarding transmission and use of the data.