After my undergraduate, I've written a thesis that was in the government department, but largely, it turned out almost an economic type of thesis. And I was very interested in that, and I wanted to go get a Ph.D. in Economics.
I've never had a choice of which government department I would hold. I've always been assigned a department by the Taoiseach.
The Home Office is a vast department where business as usual means that something is going wrong and, given the nature of the business, the disasters rarely lack a high profile.
I think Jason Chaffetz was correct to call for an investigation into the Government Ethics Department in the government for the positions that they've taken in this campaign.
Obviously, defence is very sensitive and very challenging ministry.
The Federal Department of Odds and Ends: sweepus underum carpetae.
I mean getting into parliament was quite an achievement in itself and then I have to pinch myself at the thought of actually running a department.
I have been the only female minister in every government department I've worked in.
Though I've never been a supporter of big government, the reclamation of our fisheries, which, done correctly, would be worth several billion pounds a year, should be a cabinet position with its own department.
