Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is worth putting this anonymous letter out there so that Ms McPhillips can say what is in it is not the case, as it may well not be. It states that many of the new managers coming in are inexperienced or have little previous experience in the Civil Service and that, in fact, the psychometric testing that the Public Appointments Service now conducts for new managers now favours candidates who will not refer matters upwards on the grounds that it shows more initiative.