Ms Hannah Gilmartin:

I work in the sustainable development goals unit, and I am the assistant principal there. We were in charge of publishing the new national implementation plan. There are a number of governance measures in place to progress a whole-of-government approach to the SDGs. We have the SDG senior officials group, and the SDG inter-departmental working group, so there is a member of each Department on that group. They report back to us, so we have oversight of how the SDGs are being progressed.

There is also the Central Statistics Office, CSO, data governance board, which is responsible for identifying and monitoring progress in respect of the SDGs by gathering the relevant data. We will be publishing our 2023 voluntary national review shortly, and will be presenting it to the United Nations in July. As part of that, the Central Statistics Office has put together a dashboard which will give a high-level overview of how we are getting on with achieving all of the 17 goals. At the moment, it has published statistical progress reports for 16 of the goals, individually, with a lot of data behind it, but for the first time we are going to have this high-level oversight of how we are doing. It will be like a traffic light system. This will be really helpful for stakeholders, in particular, who want that quick look at how we are doing. That will be available in April.