Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 27 February 2018

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Equality Budgeting Initiative: Discussion

4:00 pm

Ms Eilís Ní Chaithnía:

There are two parts to that issue. In terms of setting really ambitious goals, potentially the best place to do that is in the equality budget statement. Then, within the Revised Estimates volume and other budgetary documentation, that could be broken down into a number of high-level goals. In Austria for example, each Department is encouraged to identify five high-level goals. The really broad element might sit well in the equality budget statement and that could then be broken down into more specific pieces within the Revised Estimates volume. The more specific the objective or goal within the Revised Estimates volume, the more specific the datasets can be. That will allow for greater clarity in reporting.