Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 November 2012

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Public Service Reform Plan: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform

10:05 am

Photo of Stephen DonnellyStephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The second question relates to the Civil Service. I have looked through the reform plan in detail several times and there are some great and important changes being made. I am keen to see a good, healthy flow of people between the public, private, social and academic spheres. We do not have that to any great extent. It is beginning to happen at the higher level, with two Secretaries General coming into the Department of Finance and the Minister's Department. I did not see anything in the plan that specifically addresses trying to enable that over the coming years and decades. Is that something the Minister is considering?

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