Ivan McKee: “The building blocks of an independent state”

There's a whole empowerment agenda here about communities, people in communities being able to feel they can influence decisions locally.

The position is that we should make use of that building the best we can.

If you look across the wider public sector, there are public bodies that have driven headcount reductions and have worked through the no compulsory redundancy policy to its conclusion.

The fiscal challenges were part of the rationale for the reforms