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

If the Department can pass anything on to the committee, we would appreciate it. I want to finish on performance budgeting. I am glad to hear so much work is being done and I commend the work of both Departments on moving ahead with this as I think it is going to be the future of all policy decisions. It is to be hoped that will be evidence-based and we can only do that with good data. One of the things I put to the Tánaiste at another committee recently was that the data are not transparently available to the public, or even to people like me who are not the general public in that we have access to all sorts of things. It is not immediately obvious. Part of the point of performance budgeting is not just that we get an evidence base but also that we build public trust that tax is being spent properly and well, and we have an issue with that in this country.

Will Dr. Moran talk a little bit about access to information and legibility for the public around equality budgeting, green budgeting and so on?