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In July 2018, the Director-General of the Central Statistics Office (CSO), Mr. Pádraig Dalton, and the Secretary General of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection (DEASP), Mr John McKeon, signed a revised Memorandum of Understanding (PDF 4,388KB) .

The signing of this MoU reflects the continuing need to maximise the use of administrative data, to support evidence-based policy making, and to build a National Data Infrastructure.

Amongst the topics covered in the MoU are data transfer and usage matters, the terms of reference for a Liaison Group (a formal, high-level mechanism for consultation and communication between the two Offices), and arrangements for operational interaction between liaison officers. The agreement reaffirms the CSO undertaking that all data received from DSP are treated as strictly confidential and are used for statistical purposes only, in accordance with the Statistics Act, 1993 and EU statistical law, and also in conformity with the Data Protection Acts.