Shane Cassells (Meath West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The report, as has been stated by the Comptroller and Auditor General and Mr. Watt, does not go into the actual reasons for severance. Mr. Watt spoke earlier about the benefits. Can he give me a flavour of those? I have a concern about the safeguards in place for the recruitment process. Mr. Watt said the benefits would far outweigh the negatives where somebody is in charge of hundreds if not thousands of people. Will Mr. Watt give me a flavour of that? What is the frequency of this and the reasoning behind it? These are very senior people. The public would have questions about the frequency of this in respect of people in such high-powered jobs and whether it is better to dispose of them or to see a mutual parting of ways rather than working through whatever difficulties or challenges there are. Perhaps it would be interesting for us to hear the challenges and difficulties that people are supposedly facing.