Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Department represents the civilian wing of the Government. I have met the Chief of Staff separately on occasion. He would be the first to say we need a de facto collaborative approach in real time. I am not clear on the rationale for writing out the Secretary General, whoever that may be at any time, if Senator Craughwell accepts the primacy of the civilian authority.