Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

No we do not. The table to which the Vice Chairman refers is the departmental output table of 2015. It lists all of the different outputs by all elements of my Department. I believe an evaluation has been done as to whether they are specific, measurable or relevant. My own observation is, as Minister heading into the next Estimates process, that I believe there is an opportunity to make them even more output focused. I will give the committee a small example of what I mean. If we were to look at the figures on the sustainable development of airports or the outputs in public transport in the future, we need to have figures on the number of people who use public transport or the number of people who use different airports. I will now turn to the figures on tourism. We are increasingly moving towards looking at the spend by tourists to Ireland, alongside the numbers of tourists. These are the measures the Department and I use to evaluate our performance. It would be helpful for the coming 12 months if those things converged with the measures in the Estimates process.