Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy is correct and we have highlighted this. For the Tax Appeals Commission, the Department of Finance did not get the planning right for its establishment and underestimated the work. We have seen the same thing with Tusla; when it came out of the HSE, the relevant Department did not get a proper understanding of what was going to happen. We saw it with the ETBs. We have seen that Government Departments are systematically unable to plan for the establishment of a new organisation, to get it up and running in an efficient manner within a reasonable period. They wholly underestimate the task at hand. Five years on, it should not be the job of this committee at all to pick up this stuff. There is something the Committee of Public Accounts can say on that issue, I think, in due course.