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Written Answers — Local Government Services: Local Government Services (22 May 2008) See 1 other result from this answer

John Gormley: The local authority service indicators initiative has been in place since 2004, and in line with the commitment given in the Programme for Government to build on the experience gained from the service indicators, the Local Government Customer Service Group recently completed a review of the indicators. This group is representative of the local government sector (elected members and...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (24 Mar 2011)

Phil Hogan: The report Service Indicators in Local Authorities 2009 published by the Local Government Management Agency (LGMA), sets out the latest information on local authority performances in 2009 across a range of 46 service indicators, including taking estates in charge. The taking estates in charge indicator was first introduced as a new service indicator in the 2008 report. The service indicator...

Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (14 Feb 2006)

Dick Roche: The publication, Service Indicators in Local Authorities 2004, by the Local Government Management Services Board reported on performance across 42 indicators of service, covering the broad range of local authority activities. These indicators were drawn up by the local government customer service group, following extensive consultation with local authorities. The customer service group is...

Written Answers — Agriculture Sector: Agriculture Sector (8 Jul 2009)

Brendan Smith: Prices paid to producers are measured through agricultural output price indices (API). According to the Central Statistics Office, in the 5-year period covering the years 2004 to 2008 inclusive, the total index for agricultural output prices increased by approximately 20%, with significant variations between commodities over the period. For example, these indices increased by 33% for cattle...

Written Answers — Playground Statistics: Playground Statistics (3 Feb 2004)

Martin Cullen: Comprehensive statistics on the number of playgrounds in the State are not available in my Department. However, under my recently announced initiative, Delivering Value for People: Service Indicators in Local Authorities, local authorities are required to report annually on their performance against 42 service indicators. Two of those indicators relate to playgrounds, and those will enable...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Statement: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Sep 2016)

...Ultimately, this leads to a sharp downturn, even when we can identify serious deficiencies of the kind that Deputy Broughan has just described. They are separate concepts. We look at a range of indicators for signs of overheating as well as competitiveness indicators, various housing indicators and credit growth indicators. We are continually monitoring for indicators that the economy...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2020: Discussion (20 May 2021)

.... John Kinnane: NESC is involved in a discussion. The fundamental aspect is setting out the dimensions and what we are trying to capture within them. What flows from that is the selection of the indicators. NESC has an input regarding the dimensions, or what should be captured, and the indicators. I am not involved in the NESC process so I am not entirely clear about its current...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (21 Feb 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Brian Leddin: May I pick up on Deputy Bruton's point on the output indicators? The Minister of State suggested that the committee might be interested in looking at this. I agree, but would the Minister of State or the Department be minded to provide a briefing note on the output indicators as they are, perhaps to help us in a piece of work on which we could then revert to the Minister of State with the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Equality Budgeting Initiative: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Feb 2018)

Ms Sarah Swaine: In terms of driving from the centre the quality of the indicators, over the past two years, although we tried to significantly improve the quality of the indicators in the Revised Estimates, we also centrally produced a guidance note in consultation with the staff of the Houses of the Oireachtas and the Departments to try to give guidance in selecting real and meaningful...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Rural and Community Development (12 Jul 2023)

Mr. J.P. Mulherin: I will come back on the broader point about indicators. So far, as part of the public service performance report and as part of the Revised Estimates Volume, we have tried to provide indicators that link directly to the funding provided, so there is clear causality between specific amounts of funding and the output indicator or impact. I understand the need for broader...

Written Answers — Local Authority Audits: Local Authority Audits (8 May 2008)

John Gormley: A system of local authority service indicators was developed and introduced as part of the local government modernisation programme. These service indicators addressed such matters as provision of segregated waste collection, recycling, litter pollution, environmental complaints and enforcement, and compliance with drinking water standards. Revised service indicators have come into effect in...

Written Answers — Housing Estate Management: Housing Estate Management (15 Dec 2005)

Dick Roche: The first national report, Service Indicators in Local Authorities 2004, which was prepared by the Local Government Management Services Board and published in July 2005, details the performance of local authorities in relation to 42 service indicators, covering the broad range of local authority activity. At the launch of the report, I indicated my agreement with the report's conclusion that...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (28 Jul 2020)

Dara Calleary: ...full period of the programme and under the "N+3" rule expenditure up to 2023 is eligible to be claimed  against the 2014-2020 allocation. While the Rural Development Programme Financial Plan sets out an indicative allocation of approximately €313m for each of the 7 years 2014-2020, where expenditure in a year is less than the indicative allocation the amount available for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (6 Oct 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: ...healthcare structures, processes and outcomes can be made publicly available so that this data may be compared against accepted standards or best practices. The reporting of performance and outcome indicators is designed to enable policy makers and service providers to improve the quality of health service provision. Indicators are presented to allow for comparisons between regions,...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (25 May 2006)

Brian Cowen: The following tables give a breakdown of the number of posts of specialist skills which are planned to decentralise and the number of people who have indicated a willingness to move with their post, for my Department and agencies under the aegis of my Department. However, the figures following do not include specialised staff who have accepted decentralising posts in the period since the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Higher Education Authority Bill 2021: Discussion (6 Jul 2021)

Professor Diarmuid Hegarty: On democratisation, I spoke earlier on the need for clearer indicators on progression. As I sit here in Sandymount, three miles to the south west, there is a 99% participation in third level education in Dublin 6. Three miles of me to the north west, there is a 15% participation in higher education in Dublin 17. These figures have not significantly changed...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Administration (5 Jun 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 86. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the EU Commission has indicated that it intends imposing a fine or penalty on Ireland arising out of map discrepancies on the single farm payment maps; the indicated size of the fine in question; when the Commission first indicated the imposition of a fine or penalty; the indicated amount of the fine or penalty; and if he will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Authority Performance Indictor Report: National Oversight and Audit Commission (9 May 2019)

...the secretariat for extending an invitation to NOAC to appear before this morning's proceedings. I am joined by my colleague, Ms Martina Maloney, who is the chair of our subgroup on performance indicators, and by Mr. Neill Dalton and Ms Claire Gavin in the Public Gallery, who are here on behalf of the NOAC secretariat. I thank the committee for its invitation to meet today to discuss...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

...compares Ireland with our EU-14 peers. Because of that, we needed to gather data that are comparable across the EU-14. Page 79 of our report contains the appendix, which goes through each of the indicators that are used, as well as the source of those indicators. As the Deputy said, some of the indicators that might come under the area of zero poverty, for example, just do not apply to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Mr. Niall Egan: The first question I will take is the one on the difference between the output indicators and the impact indicators. In the structure of the Public Sector Programme Report, PSPR, the way we approached the output indicators in the Department is that they are very measurable. It is about claim load, the number of applications we make and pay, and the number of payments we...