Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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I am watching the clock and I do not want to go over time. I do not want to pick on the Department of Social Protection, as I think it is one of the few examples in this document of a Department in which genuine performance-based budgeting is taking place. That Department sets a real target for poverty reduction and measures itself against it. However, the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications will tell us the number of retrofits but not the overall figure for carbon emissions from buildings. Should all Departments have such high-level targets that measure the more tangible outputs? How can Departments be instructed to deliver that kind of information? Who would instruct Departments to do that? That is very important.