Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 June 2023

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Public Service Performance Report 2022

Dr. Patrick Moran:

All Departments are engaging with us on the tagging exercise. For budget 2024, we should have visibility across expenditure on the different well-being dimensions across all Departments. We are also working with the central section of the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service, IGEES, unit in our Department to raise awareness of the well-being framework and try to get it utilised more in the work that Departments do in terms of their spending reviews so that they integrate that into their own work. We can provide the framework and track the expenditure data but for it to have a meaningful impact on policy development, it has to be embraced by Departments. We are pushing that.