Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 February 2018

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Equality Budgeting Initiative: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform

2:00 pm

Ms Sarah Swaine:

The indicators were first in place in 2013. It is now mandated that every expenditure programme or line Ministry needs to have five high-level objectives, one of which must be gender related. There is huge diversity in the types of objectives across the system in Austria, but it is part of its regular budgetary process. It is something we are trying to mirror and integrate into our regular documentation such as the Revised Estimates and performance report. We want to use existing mechanisms and to build on them.