Performance Framework

Over the course of the last decade or so, Ireland has introduced a serious of budgetary reforms that contributed to the development of Ireland’s performance framework.

The performance framework is underpinned by a number of initiatives that contribute to:

• Demonstrating how public money is used
• Utilising evidence to inform policy-making and
• Developing the capacity of the civil service to undertake evidence informed policy work.

In more recent years, the development of the performance framework has placed an increasing focus on policy goals and the impact of public policy on people’s lives (i.e., Equality Budgeting and Green Budgeting and now Well-being Budgeting).

These approaches can contribute to better public policy by supporting the development of more refined descriptions of policy challenges, the articulation of clearer policy goals and identification of people who may benefit from more targeted policy interventions.