John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Is there any big-ticket item Mr. Moloney can think of in terms of reform that was caused by this exchange of knowledge between one position and another when a Secretary General or person who was on secondment came back? Secondments have gone on for so many years and involved so many people. Deputy Doherty is trying to get to the bottom of that in terms of how many there are. Are they still there? Who is paying them? What knowledge did they bring back? I have not seen a great deal of reform in the Civil Service which suggests to me that some magnificent piece of information came back that caused reform to happen.