Profile of Robert Watt: Mandarin of mystery
A highly respected but outspoken civil servant, he has never been shy in expressing his numerous dissenting opinions
Factfile
Name: Robert Watt
Age:49
Appearance: studiously hawkish
Newsworthiness: the civil servant charged with guarding the country’s finances has yet to appear before an Oireachtas committee examining the National Broadband Plan, despite repeated invitations to do so
At a meeting of the Oireachtas Public Accounts committee last March, the Fianna Fáil TD Bobby Aylward threw a curveball at Robert Watt, the secretary general of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
He questioned ...