Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I have lot of questions so I may have to save some for the second round. I want to start by picking up where Deputy Jim O'Callaghan left off. He mentioned equality budgeting, performance budgeting and well-being budgeting and I was struck by the fact that there was no specific reference to the well-being framework. That framework was updated as recently as June of this year. I understand that as part of the summer economic statement, SES, we now report on well-being budgeting. Looking specifically at the areas of knowledge, skills and innovation, the indicators there are reading and mathematics performance and life-long learning, which would be pertinent, as well as subjective well-being or the reported subjective well-being of school age children. Are we saying that this is not yet integrated into the performance reporting of the Department? I understand that the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform has issued a direction that we should be building that into our reporting in the SES.