Mr. John Moran:

I did not quite have that luxury when I started in the Department because, as the Deputy will remember, we were in the middle of a banking crisis. I had to deal with the banking stuff first, but in the course of the first year I had the luxury of working in the banking unit before becoming Secretary General, and that allowed me to observe the way the Department worked. Clearly, I had my own observations in terms of governance and various issues. At the time, the Department was being split in two, which meant there was an opportunity to revisit governance structures in a way that might not have been possible if everything had been as before. The Wright report had identified issues within the Department, and Mr. Kevin Cardiff quite correctly suggested that before I embarked on developing my own ideas about where we might go, I should pick it up. In fact, we compiled a report on all the recommendations in the Wright report against what we could do. As I mentioned and as is obvious from the list I have just given, there were other things that were obvious in terms of what was needed in the Department, some of which were caused by the split. Inevitably when one splits a whole into two, some pieces move to either side of the line and that left some gaps we needed to fill.