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

I know it does not seem like a lot but I have read it and I would say all the witnesses could probably have written it on their lunch break. It is a literature review so anybody with access to any university library and Google could have written it. I am not saying it as a criticism of the witnesses in particular but this is the culture we have in the public service. There is a significant deficit in terms of being prepared to make a decision and back oneself and one's own capabilities and research. There is nothing in the report that was not already in the public domain. Deputy Rock and I enjoy beating each other up on political issues. A figure of €30,000 might not do very much but I am sure it could fill a hole in some aspect of some Department. That approach is being replicated in every State agency under the aegis of the Department week to week, month to month and year to year.