Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 April 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health
Mr. Robert Watt:
Not at all; of course it does not. We are entitled to have our own views and disagreements and we get on. People are entitled to their own views and you get on with things. Does the Deputy think the 770 people in the Department of Health all have the same views? Of course they do not. Does he think I agree with everything the Chairman, Deputy John McGuinness, has said over the years, or that said by the Minister, Deputy Donnelly? Of course not. We have our views. You have your views, you debate them, a Minister then ultimately decides, directs his civil servants and they go about their business. That is how the system works.
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