Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The CMO had said he had expressed an interest in continuing in a particular way or making a contribution to public and private medicine, whatever the case may be, and availing of the opportunity to make improvements. I ask these questions against the backdrop of health services in the country. We are spending very valuable time at the moment investigating where the CMO was going to go, the conditions on which he was going to leave, whether he was entitled to leave, and his salary. The question arises as to whether or not the HSE, the Department of Health or whatever else was going to make a provision for his salary in a positive way. Is that correct? Would that be normal? Are there precedents for that?