We owe a debt of gratitude to Ireland’s highest-paid civil servant Robert Watt, for he has shown in the clearest possible manner who is actually running the country.
The bungled secondment of Dr Tony Holohan to Trinity College has once again dispelled any illusion that it is the Taoiseach and his ministers who are in charge.
In this country it’s not a case of “Yes, minister” when it comes to the most senior civil servants, it’s a case of “I’m not even going to bother telling you what’s going on, minister”.
