Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 10 July 2025
Public Accounts Committee
2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management
2:00 am
Mr. David Moloney:
Our performance framework is informed by value for money but it is also informed by impact on the lives of people. What we do there is we see things in terms of an equality-budgeting lens and gender budgeting then is part of our equality-budgeting lens so we report on that. I suppose we are still at the stage where our emphasis is to try to embed the impact on various lenses of equality as people examine policies and I suppose that is kind of hard to measure. It is hard to capture but it is part of the process thinking. It is part of the policy-making piece that well-being and equality would be taken into account in making policy choices and in spending money. Of course, we produce reports with these outputs and we are continuing to develop that. I suppose our next stage will probably be a kind of a tagging. I do not really have the kind of information the Deputy is looking for because we do not really tag things in that way just now but we are trying to move towards a stage where we tag things and we will have a greater visibility on how much money is being specifically directed at the various equality and well-being dimensions.
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