Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú) | Oireachtas source

The point is that there is a question of governance here. There is a big question that is at the centre of Government in this country for years. Ideally, we should have a system where we have the elected representatives who choose the Ministers who then direct the public or civil servants to implement how the Government should be run. That means there needs to be an alignment with senior civil servants and Ministers on key issues such as this. There is a misalignment between Mr. Watt's analysis and the Minister on this. I do not know if this leads to a toxic relationship in that scenario but if it does not, it certainly must lead to a dysfunction in terms of the delivery of Government policy.