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
Mr. Robert Watt:
The Deputy will know from her time in government how the system works. I think the system works and should work with people like me giving their views or advice and then the political system makes the decision, and that is what happens. Pretty much the same structures that pertained from 2011 to 2016 are in existence now in terms of the relationship between civil servants and the political system and the structures that we have in place.