Debate contribution: Programme for Government 2024-27: TEO Role
Debate contribution by Ms Aisling Reilly on .
- MLA
- Ms Aisling Reilly
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 27 May 2025
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Programme for Government 2024-27: TEO Role
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4972288
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We have set realistic targets and timelines for delivery against all nine priorities in the Programme for Government. We have already seen real progress. From March 2025, over 15,000 children were registered for the childcare subsidy scheme. When that is combined with tax-free childcare, it is estimated that those working families will have saved nearly £17 million over this period. The scheme will be extended to include school-age children, which will benefit families further. Those targets will be monitored frequently by officials in the Department's newly established delivery unit, the scientific unit and the AI unit. We will also collaborate across all the other Departments to make sure that progress is being made against the priorities. A Programme for Government subcommittee of the Civil Service board has been formed. It will drive forward delivery through a single point that will have a strategic focus, as well as scrutinise, support, monitor and ensure good governance. We also have a well-being dashboard that tracks long-term well-being at a population level. That will be updated continually, as and when new data becomes available. We will also keep track of delivery, and we will publish an annual delivery report. That will allow us to consider whether projects and programmes are being delivered on time and within budget and what more we need to do, or what we can do differently, for projects to be effective and efficient.
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