Mr. Gavan O'Leary:

Primarily we do it to inform the committee and external stakeholders but a process like this, where we gather the metrics and look at our own performance, also has internal value for the Department and ourselves in seeing how these things align, the performance of the Department and how it changes over time. It is interesting and valuable to see how things change in the performance of the system as well as basic metrics such as the number of schools, the size of the pupil population and so on.

I will ask Mr. Whelan if he wants to add to this. Wearing his finance hat, he might have another perspective.