Sir, - Garret FitzGerald has got it wrong (November 30th). Far from "sheltering civil servants" the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, as interpreted by successive Governments, inhibits Civil Service initiatives.
Civil servants will gladly implement policy and take full responsibility for their actions if and when Ministers acquire the competence to articulate coherent policies, the courage to delegate intelligently and the good sense to desist from "corrosive" and niggling interference in administration. Yours, etc.,
Churchtown,
Dublin 14.