Mr. John Kinnane:

New Zealand is the country that is probably most advanced with its approach in terms of a well-being framework. The framework was developed over a number of years. That country initially utilised the framework. As budgetary proposals came in from departments, it utilised the well-being framework to scrutinise the proposals to see how they impacted on the various dimensions of well-being.

As we look towards the next budget, we are working within our Department to see whether there is a way that we can apply certain dimensions of well-being. Initially, on a pilot basis, we would assess whether we can map decisions across so decisions that impact on a number of Departments across the shared dimensions of well-being.

To get to a stage that we are in a position to produce a public service performance report that reports against the various dimensions of well-being, a lot of work needs to be done, from an IT perspective, to have a system where we can tag each expenditure line and each of the indicators within the performance report against the various dimensions of well-being. That is a huge job of work that will have to be done on an incremental basis. We will have to start on a pilot basis with certain dimensions and Departments and then roll that out so that, over time, we will get to a situation where we report against the well-being dimensions.