Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 May 2022
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion
Ms Caroline O'Loughlin:
For that particular metric, we were working with each of the Departments to capture equality metrics. As I said, our approach to equality budgeting is not about meeting metrics and ticking off a given number so that we consider it done. We want to demonstrate to the Departments that, if they push their policies a little bit further to target specific cohorts of society, they will be much more effective. This was one instance in which the metrics were just not yet available but the Department acknowledged that this was a way to capture that information. The report is published now but, as those details become available, we will update the online version. We wanted to capture the structure in order to demonstrate it to the Department so that it can use it as an example for targeting specific cohorts in other areas. That is an exceptional case.
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