Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

No, I would be more nuanced in my reaction to it. If it were an appropriate benchmarking, I think it had a role to play at the time. But, unfortunately, it became as so many things at that time a vehicle to dish out substantial amounts of money without discernment or discrimination. But the notion of benchmarking in the public service or in the public sector is not a bad one at all. It's the methodology and its implementation and all the rest, that matters.