Ms Sarah Swaine:

In terms of driving from the centre the quality of the indicators, over the past two years, although we tried to significantly improve the quality of the indicators in the Revised Estimates, we also centrally produced a guidance note in consultation with the staff of the Houses of the Oireachtas and the Departments to try to give guidance in selecting real and meaningful indicators. That had an application to the equality budgeting initiative but in conjunction with the advisory group we are setting up we will consider specifically tailored guidance for the equality budgeting indicators to assist Departments in selecting indicators.