Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I will be brief because I know time is tight. One of my questions relates partly to the Minister's role as Tánaiste and partly to his Department. There was a commitment in the programme for Government to well-being budgeting. The Departments of Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform have done a considerable amount of work on gender and equality budgeting. However, there was not an enormous amount announced in the budget on Tuesday. I was expecting to see metrics on gender budgeting and well-being budgeting. The dashboard was launched in 2021. There was an excellent paper from the Department of Finance. However, that kind of measurement and evidence-based decision-making was not necessarily evident. Are we going to see that in the coming weeks? I welcome the switch analysis on our progress. Are we going to see measures such as gender and well-being budgeting analyses of the 2023 budget in the coming weeks? How is the Minister rolling our performance metrics in that regard in his Department? Has gender budgeting changed those performance metrics?

I also wish to raise a matter I previously raised with the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy O'Gorman. The Gender Recognition Act was a step forward but we have recently come across some lacunas in it, mostly to do with non-binary recognition. A number of people would have liked to have identified as non-binary in the census. That might be work for the next round. Is that something the Government is considering and to which it is open?