Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I welcome Mr. Moran. I, too, shared his view that there would never be a soft Brexit and I said very quickly that we needed to figure out what we could and could not control. Pretending there would be some type of soft Brexit, whatever that means, was just a bit of chat. The focus of the British was always going to be on trying to secure their borders.

If we look back at different times and assessments of the Department of Finance, particularly in the lead-up to the banking crisis, we note there were serious flaws and serious unpreparedness, indicating that the officials in the Department were not raising concerns loudly enough and in the appropriate way and that there was a skills shortage within the Department.

I know many of those issues have been rectified in previous times. Does the witness believe the Department of Finance is ready for the challenges of Brexit?