Mr. Brian Fitzgerald:

Accountability has been mentioned. I have been kept on my toes, but was I kept on my toes every hour of every day in the public system? the answer is perhaps not. There is also a psychological issue. I mean no disrespect, but if a person is a public servant, joined the system in his or her early 20s and worked his or her way up, perhaps now in his or her early to mid-40s he or she has become a little stale. It is a permanent and pensionable job which perhaps psychologically and in the background has created a block to making innovative decisions. I am being honest, but that has been my experience. The Deputy asked me to be honest.