Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 April 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach

Mr. Martin Fraser:

Sorry, Deputy, I just want to be clear. I am looking at the paragraph and by the way, I apologise in advance if it turns out that I did have a meeting and I just do not remember it. I am pretty sure I met the CMO and I am quite sure I would have spoken to the Secretary General of the Department of Health, either on the phone or otherwise. I see him quite a lot. I just do not think there was a three-cornered meeting. A three-cornered meeting sounds like a far more formal thing than what I recall. I think I had a private conversation with the CMO but as I say, I apologise if it turns out that there was a meeting that slipped my mind; so be it. I do not think that sentence says there was a meeting. It uses "involved" as the verb and I think involved probably means telephone conversations.

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