Ivan McKee: “There's a whole empowerment agenda here about communities, people in communities being able to feel they can influence…”

The building blocks of an independent state

We are going into the public service reform agenda with a great deal of ambition and a great deal of pace

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.

Cuts is about doing less with less; efficiency is about doing the same or doing more with less because you're doing it more efficiently.