1 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Taoiseach his views on whether the Central Statistics Office should develop a parallel periodic measure of domestic progress, alongside GDP and GNP, to provide a more reliable, if less easily quantifiable measure of real progress, leaving out spending to offset social and environmental costs arising from GDP growth, subtracting damage to the environment, taking account of charges in the degree of income inequality and including unpaid household and voluntary labour not included in GNP and GDP. [9598/04]

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1 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Taoiseach his views on whether the Central Statistics Office should develop a parallel periodic measure of domestic progress, alongside GDP and GNP, to provide a more reliable, if less easily quantifiable measure of real progress, leaving out spending to offset social and environmental costs arising from GDP growth, subtracting damage to the environment, taking account of charges in the degree of income inequality and including unpaid household and voluntary labour not included in GNP and GDP. [9598/04]

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