Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 June 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Nexus Phase
Mr. John Moran:
I wasn't sure, so I decided to err on the side of caution. And I joke about that, but I'm actually very serious. What I ... well, first of all, the Department and I kept this under the radar screen from the Department of Public Expenditure until I put it in out Vote but we actually hired 100 people into a team of 300. So despite the fact that nothing has changed, almost a third of the people in the Department, even by the time I left, hadn't actually been in the Department when I joined. So that changes things very significantly, by definition, because it allows new thinking to come in, it allows people to get promoted, it allows people to actually, sort of, you know, adopt different challenges, and finally get a bit of space to actually think.
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