Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

How much in the public eye does the Secretary General think a civil servant should be? I am conscious that if we were having this discussion here, and we probably would not have this discussion here 40 or 50 years ago, but 40 or 50 years ago I would have thought that very few senior civil servants would have been publicly well known whereas now quite a few of them are. How much in the public eye does the Secretary General think an effective Secretary General or civil servant should be?