The public service - A radical but timely intervention

LAST Friday John McGuinness, a Department of Enterprise junior minister made what was by the conservative and often head-in-the-sand nature of our public discourse, a radical speech.

As he is a senior government figure “radical” might not quiet cover it; inflammatory or even subversive might be more apt.

Indeed, it is hard to recall a speech by a senior government politician that so challenged a powerful interest group. What did he do? What did he say that was so dangerous, so challenging?