Glenfaba & Peel

[Zarley]

The more I think about it, the more I like Tim in DEFA. 

I think KLB might suit DHSC. 

 

[SleepyJoe]

Ms LB is quite enterprise/business minded

I wouldn't wish to see Manx Care moved further towards an insurance based private model - there's no public mandate for this

Are there to be department members other than Minister? It would be a big leap forward for anyone other than the experienced Mr Crookall

Maybe one of the more independent enterprise agencies - tourism and MNH perhaps? I believe she has an interest in that area

[Roger Mexico]

1 hour ago, Non-Believer said:

The last Beaman's Report was scathing about the DOI, including the bit about having unqualified engineers, having a CEO position that was incapable of overseeing it all and being utterly un-delivery orientated. Yet Quayle said the Dept wouldn't be broken up. Unless we get some new thinking in the new elected roles, things are going to carry on in the same vein.

Oddly enough Quayle was right about not breaking up DoI.  If it is 'too big' to be manageable, it's because it has become too bloated and has taken on too many projects of dubious usefulness (at best).  It's core responsibilities are no different to other Departments, it's just that its management has been allowed to do whatever came into its head for the last decade plus.  Its response to the Beamans Report very underplayed criticisms about it taking on too many projects was ... to announce more projects.  Far too often 'reorganisation' has been the way in which malfunctioning Departments have been allowed to continue unchanged (but with payrises all round).

But the responsibility doesn't stop at the DoI.  The Treasury, the Cabinet Office and the AG Office all have responsibilities here as do the various planning functions.  Unless all these are tackled as well, the DoI won't be reformed.