Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Are there any questions on chapter 9, which concerns the administration programme? No. Chapter 10 is performance budgeting. This is part of our work programme for this year and we hope to engage directly with the Department on it. The Department is underselling itself with how it presents the performance budgeting. With engagement with the committee, we could develop a far more effective performance budgeting mechanism that clearly reflects the workload that is going on within the Department, but also provides the Oireachtas with the type of information we need to monitor it. The way we are measuring could be altered. This would benefit the Department, with regard to its output, and would also be a far more effective tool for Members of the Oireachtas to monitor it.