Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I may be wrong but I might be the first Taoiseach who is regularly criticised for not having enough advisers and experts in my Department.

In terms of the structural changes that have been made, there is the Brexit group, which has six members of staff. Of course, behind them are the entire Departments of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Taoiseach. We also have some people working on justice reform. I want to make sure the reforms proposed by the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland happen, so I have a few people working in the Department on that and pursuing it, and they are working closely with Department of Justice and Equality and the Garda authorities. We will set up a strategic threat analysis centre, STAC, given the O'Toole commission recommended that such a centre be established within the Department of the Taoiseach, with a national security co-ordinator. We anticipate doing that in the first half of this year. I also have a small group of civil servants who have taken a particular role in monitoring Sláintecare and the implementation of those healthcare reforms.

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