Ireland Stat

Fiachra Kennedy

Central Expenditure Evaluation Unit

Department of Public Expenditure & Reform

A key element of the Government’s agenda of driving public service delivery and results, and improving accountability to the public.

Performance Budgeting

Strengthens the focus upon what the public service delivers with public funds, and builds this into the policy-making process.

Objectives:- - Disseminate public service performance information - Increase focus on services and their impact - Systematic consideration of performance information in resource allocation decisions

Policy C

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Basic Framework

www.gov

Policy A

Policy B Statement of

Strategy

High Level Goal 1

High Level Goal 2

High Level Goal 3

Outputs

Outcomes

Agency A

OutputsOutcomes

Annual Report 2012

Annual Report 2012

Annual Reports

Annual Reports

Agency B

Agency C

Annual Output

Statements

Policy Strategy

Documents

OECDeurostat

Central Statistics

Office

A single coherent organising principle for presenting public service information:-

Basic Framework

Department’s Statements of Strategy are the anchor documents.

“High Level Goal” associated with Strategic Programme

Three types of information Financial and Human Resource InputsPublic Service Activities / OutputsContext & Impact Indicators

Strategic ProgrammeEach Programme relates to a “High Level Goal” in the Department’s Statement of Strategy.

What is this Department

trying to achieve?

How much does this

Programme cost?

Financial and Human Resource Inputs

For each Programme, the amount of money spent / allocated and the number of civil and public servants working in the area –information on the administrative costs of each Programme is also provided.

Basic Framework

What does the public get for

these resources?

The Estimates set out the tasks and work-steps that transform financial inputs into services.

Public Service ActivityA brief description of the main work areas.

OutputsA brief description of the main services that were provided / will be provided.

Basic Framework

How does this activity make a

difference to people’s lives?

Context and Impact IndicatorsQuantitative retrospective data is provided that sets out a clear sense of progress, or the “broad direction of travel”.

Basic Framework

OPW

Pilot Project – “Ireland Stat”

Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Transport, Tourism and SportJobs, Enterprise and Innovation

A. Flood Risk Management

A. Agri-FoodB. Food SafetyC. Rural Economy

B. Land Transport A. Jobs and Enterprise DevelopmentB. Innovation

Ireland Stat

How do people

think about policy?

Performance Story – “Ireland Stat”

How much does the Programme cost?What actions were taken to achieve the Programme goals?

What has the Programme

achieved? How does Ireland compare with other EU countries?

Ireland Stat

Ireland Stat

What are the

“economy” policy

programmes?

What has been the impact of

the policy?

Ireland Stat

Ireland Stat

Ireland Stat

Ireland Stat

Objective – Develop mechanisms for disseminating public service performance information

Final Remarks

- Single coherent framework;

- Bring together information from diverse sources onto a single platform of a “high level goal”; and- Present information in a way that is accessible, meaningful and of interest to a diverse audience of citizens.