The top civil servant at the Department of Justice is to be 'reassigned' after a damning report into the Department's workings.
The report of an external panel of experts says the Department had a "closed, secretive and silo-driven culture" with ineffective management.
The Department's secretary-general Brian Purcell will now stand aside and be moved to another job within the civil service.
The justice minister Frances Fitzgerald says she agrees that it's in the Department's best interests for him to move:
Despite the hard-hitting nature of the report, the Minister says she has confidence in the remainder of the staff at her Department.
She says the priority now is to build a system where the remaining staff can "flourish" in their roles.
