Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

No; I think it is one lesson. A second lesson - an unfortunate one - is that the Civil Service and the public service can come under attack unfairly, as I have mentioned. One of the difficulties in the Civil Service and the public service is that it does tend to be risk averse because that is always the safe option. It is not particular to the Department of the Taoiseach; it is true across the Civil Service and the public service. It is always a safer option to do things in the way they have always been done. One of the jokes in the public service is that the safe thing to do is to give the contract to IBM, not to a new or an innovative firm because if one does things as they have always been done, one will not be criticised, but if one innovates and tries to do things differently, one leaves oneself open to criticism. I hope that will not be a lesson to be learned from this, but I fear it will be.