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

I thank Ms Rantala who gave us a lot of food for thought in her final contribution. One of the issues the committee is looking at is performance indicators within the Department of Social Protection. The committee feels the current performance indicators do not accurately reflect the objectives the Government has or the things that should be measured by the Department. If the witnesses have any thoughts or suggestions on how those performance indicators could reflect one or two of the key indicators of the sustainable development goals, the committee would be very interested in hearing from them regarding that. The committee does not want an off-the-cuff comment on it, it would like some thought put into it because this has major implications for delivery within the Department. It is a work stream the committee is working on, so the witnesses might come back to the committee on that.

That concludes our public session. I thank all of the witnesses for their evidence and written submissions and for their patience in terms of us getting around to all of the contributors. I thank them for taking the time to inform the committee and provide evidence.

The committee will go into private session to consider other business.