Genuine Progress Indicators and National Distributional Accounts Bill 2017
Public bill · Private Member · Introduced
It would require the Central Statistics Office, working with the National Economic and Social Council, to produce new measures of progress that go beyond GDP and include things like health, education, time use, poverty, crime, inequality, and environmental damage. It would also create national distribution accounts to show how economic growth is shared across income groups, before and after tax, and ask for regular reports on how the Budget affects inequality, poverty reduction, and the distribution of income and wealth.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to confer functions on the Central Statistics Office and the National Economic and Social Council in relation to the publication of indices, to be known as Genuine Progress Indicators, designed to take fuller account of the well-being of the community by incorporating environmental and social factors which are not otherwise measured, in relation to the publication of National Distributional Accounts that aim to measure the distribution of national income and economic growth and in relation to an annual report on the impact of the Budget on economic and social inequality, poverty reduction and income and wealth redistribution; and to provide for related matters
Last updated 13 February 2020
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- Genuine Progress Indicators and National Distributional Accounts Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] Dáil
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- Genuine Progress Indicators and National Distributional Accounts Bill 2017: First Stage Dáil