Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Public Service Performance Report: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform

Ms Caroline O'Loughlin:

It is certainly something I will look into. The Deputy should be aware the Department is currently conducting a project funded by the EU under the state register of statistical units, SRSU, project. What it aims to do is to enhance our performance budgetary framework as a whole. That encapsulates performance budgeting and all of the dimensions underneath that which include green budgeting, well-being budgeting, socioeconomic group, SEG, and equality budgeting. We are at the pilot stage of that project. Three Departments are doing pilot exercises on how they can tag their expenditure against those dimensions. That is something we would hope to see being fully implemented in the next 12 to 18 months as that project is finalised. That would certainly give an enhanced tagging ability for expenditure. Mr. Hearne may be able to expand on this.

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