Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 January 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance
10:00 am
Mr. Derek Moran:
I will make an observation on the UK arrangements where there is a Department of Brexit, Dexit. Looking at it from the outside, I am not sure that it is running Brexit. It has to draw in all the inputs from everybody else but the call is with the Prime Minister, Theresa May. The seminal speech that clarified this was by the Prime Minister. On balance, the way we are going about it with the lead being taken in the Taoiseach's office to bring together all the strands across Government is the best. This is a policy call. In the UK it all goes back to the Prime Minister's office to bring together all its strands. It is a half answer.
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