Thomas Byrne (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The general point I am trying to make is that this highlights the archaic nature of this system - that we must appoint people who are mid-ranking civil servants essentially as statutory officers. I do not think it is necessary. For example, I do not think Irish Water has statutory positions, although perhaps it does. Here it is so old-fashioned, archaic and complicated that we must pass a law to give certain people a particular post in the organisation. The more I look at this, the more I think that the whole system needs a major overhaul.