Mr. Derek Moran:

I certainly didn't go away because, you know, we kept coming back and the following year and the following year and the following year. A personal view, and it can be no more than that, is I think we're very conservative in our interpretation of where the line between advice administration lies and policy lies, and how far we can go in terms of articulating publicly concerns and I think we've got better at that ... and by that I mean, and this is not because ... no civil servant will cross the line into policy; that is a matter for the Government, you know, we will not offer a view on policy; it's not appropriate. But you can inform, you can publish research, you can participate in political debate. So, I mean, I did reference that ... or not political debate, policy debate. You know I did reference in my few words at the start is that during ... since I took over we have participated in public consultations around policy decisions like the macro-prudential rules, like the Low Pay Commission etc., as the Department, not as the Minister and so on. Now to do that you have to have the support of the Minister because is to publish them in that way, and if they don't give it, then you don't but I do think that there are various ways in which we can have a say and I don't think we leveraged them terribly well in the past.