Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 3 December 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion

Photo of John McGuinnessJohn McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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Mr. Watt should not mind that. I am just saying it cannot go on the way it is going. What is the Department doing to wake up the political system or change its system? The Department is part of the permanent government. Mr. Watt can dress it up whatever way he likes but he is here for good or for as long as his contract lasts.