Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll:

It delivers a huge amount of legislation and has provided services to this country and the Oireachtas in a wide range of areas. Of course, there were failures. I will finish this point because it is quite important and my perspective might be helpful. One Department after another has fallen into difficulties in recent years. My former Department, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, had great difficulties in the 1990s and underwent major reform at the time. The Department of Finance was judged very harshly during the economic crisis and certain major restructuring came from that. The Department of Health is periodically subject to this kind of criticism.