Mr. Dermot McCarthy:

I wouldn't characterise it as a failing, Deputy, but I think one of the difficulties that the Wright report, for example, refers to is that the ... if you like, the market for analytical approaches to policy development wasn't very well developed. And I think Government, of course, should do the right thing, the public service should prepare the right advice. But I think it would have added to the challenge - which Wright concludes was absent - had the Oireachtas been more systematically focused on the analysis of strategy.