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SECRETARY GENERAL OF the Department of Finance, John Moran, has said there was no ‘sinister’ reason for his resignation, which was announced yesterday.
Moran was speaking to the Public Accounts Committee today for the final time in his role as secretary general for the department. He said he had come back into the system in 2010 to help in some way with the crisis.
“It has certainly been an intense, and a fun sort of four years,” he said.
He told TDs he doesn’t think it’s a good idea for people to stay in the same jobs forever and that his principle of management has always been that “you should work to make yourself redundant”.
“If you become in any way in your job indispensable, you may miss a bigger challenge or opportunity ahead that you could actually contribute to,” he commented.
Moran added that his main objective was to get the country back into the markets and exit the Troika bailout programme. He said he thought this was an opportune moment to resign as it would give his successor ample time to “get their feet under the desk ahead of the next budget”.
TD Shane Ross described his exit as “premature” as Moran had agreed in 2012 to take on the role of secretary general for seven years.
Earlier in the committee session, Moran told TDs that a lot of work has been done in rebuilding the reputation of the department as people back in 2010 avoided telling people they even worked there and he was reluctant himself to join.
“It was not a comfortable place either for me to join in terms of the task and the reputational risk,” he said.
He urged the committee to think seriously about what it can do to be supportive of this and to be “brave in setting targets and attracting better talent into the public sector”.
He has not yet decided what his next career move will be.
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Some pack of bemoaning oulones on here. He’s probably bored to his fukin teeth with it and then all of the joe soap know it all arseholes having huge opinions on him. He will prob more pay and less hassle in a private role. Win win for him.
Seems like wasted advice to TDs and Senators” work towards making yourself redundant” would never catch on in LH.
Looks like he has his eye on a higher position.
Where is the other eye looking?
private
Its mostly fun when you are surrounded by clowns
I wonder if the PS pay cap was a factor? He’d earn more in private industry. Either way I don’t really believe him. There could be something big coming down the tracks on banks.
Then again he was drafted in from the private sector, so he’s not a PS lifer like many of those that oversaw the collapse, and people in the private sector often move around.
I am glad he had fun. Bully for him
You’re right. Fun at work should be banned. It can’t lead to anything productive. Down with that sort if thing
‘Fun’. A nationa enslaved to banking cartels. And now it transpires the we shouldn’t have. But did.
I think he was winking when he said it was fun…
To be fair to the chap…. Before the Dept of Finance he was running a juice bar in France. He probably fell out of love with trying to change the culture within the department. Fair well to him. He’ll do well in the real world.
What’s with the sinister look then?
Came from Zurich banking – Rothschild central.
Economic agent Moran deployed to home central bank.
65 billion extortion from population through manipulation of ignorant politicians and unquestoning repeater economists.
Treason to nation, excellence in service to the Rothschild central banking empire – will be rewarded with wealth and title.
Mission outstanding success, agent extracted from field of duty.
A big line of ???
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