Gerald Nash (Louth, Labour)
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I welcome Ms O'Loughlin and Dr. Moran. This is a process that I am interested in. A long time ago, I was persuaded that the best way of managing and understanding performance is not measuring GDP alone. GDP is practically irrelevant in any kind of metric that we might deploy to measure our own success or otherwise. It is very limited and always was. This is really about impacts, not outputs. The first question I would ask is about the culture shift that is required across the political system and Civil Service and public service about how we measure impacts. Do the witnesses believe that, since we embarked on this process a number of years ago, there has been a discernible cultural and attitudinal shift in Government Departments about this process and the value and utility of a process like this in measuring success, in its broadest definition?