Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister. Does the Minister consider that the way he judges performance and targets is sufficient? We have talked about the New Zealand guidelines. Does the Minister consider that it is necessary to monitor the performance in a similar way, to review the targets at the end of the year, and to be targeted in what the Department does? It is easy to judge in sport if something is working or if an athlete is performing or otherwise but how is the overall picture in sport measured? Is it measured by achievements or by the amount of money the Department gives and the value it gets for it?

I have the same question about the road networks. Do we measure it in terms of performance and the percentage we have achieved in terms of the budget that we provided for those roads? Is that how the Minister looks at it or does he just look at whether he got this project done or this maintenance done?