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

I wanted to return to this idea of cultural and language expression as a measurement within our well-being framework. I wanted to compare and contrast what we measure here in Ireland versus what is measured in Wales, with its well-being framework. The Welsh model measures the percentage of people attending or participating in arts, culture or heritage at least three times a year, the percentage of people who speak Welsh daily, the number of people who can speak Welsh, the percentage of people who can speak more than a few words of Welsh, the percentage of people participating in sporting activities three or more times a week, and the percentage of museums and archives holding archival or heritage collections meeting a UK accreditation standard. By contrast, the one indicator that we measure for cultural expression is persons who have experienced discrimination in the last two years. That is absolutely an important measure. Some 15% of people have expressed that they have experienced that discrimination. It means that in cultural terms, this well-being framework has nothing to say about 85% of the population.

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