Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 May 2018

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Public Service Performance Report 2017: Discussion

2:00 pm

Mr. John Kinnane:

The other important stakeholders with regard to this report are the relevant sectoral committees, because the discussion on the Estimates and the consideration of the Estimates provides the opportunity and the space. We are trying to present information in an accessible format, so that it is a relatively short document that is clear and by removing many of these qualitative indicators, we are focusing on what is being measured. By focusing on these types of metrics, it will drive out the types of issues of whether we are measuring the right things or should we be measuring different indicators and that is a discussion the relevant sectoral committees can have with the line Departments and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform with the line Departments also.