Mr. John Kinnane:

The Department of the Taoiseach is leading this phase of the development of the well-being framework. An internal working group with representatives from each of the Departments is providing the input at Government level. The external co-ordination is being done by the National Economic and Social Council, NESC. NESC has been running extensive consultation over the past couple of months. That will feed into the well-being framework and the set of indicators. The plan is to have these published before the summer. As Mr. Downes has outlined, that certainly provides a starting point for us within the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in terms of embedding the work within the public policy and performance budgeting frameworks. It will be an iterative process. We will have an initial framework set out at a high level with a set of indicators. The plan is that the CSO will manage the dashboard that provides information on progress against the indicators. The challenge for us, as a Department, is to embed that within the overall policy-making and budgetary work.