Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 7 November 2012
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform
Statement of Strategy 2011-2014: Discussion with Department of Finance
3:25 pm
Mr. John A. Moran:
No. The reason I am referring to challenge - I am looking at what is happening at present - is that I do not believe it is a good idea to have policies developed by one person. It is incredibly important that we have the involvement of a number of different people, with different backgrounds and experience, in the development of policies. All of what I mentioned earlier is designed to achieve that. It is designed to allow me, John and the rest of the guys to draw on resources. In other words, when they are thinking about some of the tough issues we must face, they can draw on expertise from the guys in the risk area or the economics guys, or they can just draw on the expertise of people who have been there previously in some of the areas.