Performance indicators to assess policy success

FROM next year the Government will seek to measure the success, or otherwise, of policy initiatives in improving general social well-being through new national performance indicator measurements.

According to Brian Lenihan the “national performance indicator” will seek to measure Ireland’s “attractiveness as a country in which to live” and “is an important part of our overall competitiveness.”

The development of a national performance indicator was included in the 2009 renewed Programme for Government agreed by Fianna Fáil and the Green Party, the project being associated with the Greens.