Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Last week the Government published its latest report on the well-being framework, entitled: Understanding Life in Ireland. It has 11 dimensions measuring over 35 indicators. It is timely in the budgeting process and I like how it falls before the summer economic statement, which feeds into the national economic dialogue, and within the report there is some good and some bad. I dwell on the environmental measures as being some of the less positive but overall it is important and positive work. One deficiency I have pointed to time and again is culture and language and how this report is entirely silent on issues of culture and language. We only have to look at the well-being frameworks in Wales or New Zealand to see how this can be woven in and incorporated. I know this is an iterative process. Do we have any plans to include things like language and culture in future versions of this report?

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