Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 4 May 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion

Mr. Robert Watt:

First, it was not committed to Trinity. It was a commitment to investment in public health research. The intention, which I think is set out very clearly, is that the CMO would be based in Trinity and would lead this. In the letter we talk about inter-institutional collaboration and public health departments across the third level sector. We talk about the EU, the WHO, the Department of Health and the HSE. The money was not for Trinity College. The money was for this broad research agenda. The money would fund a research programme which would be based, as I understand is the normal way, on calls for papers or proposals for research inviting interested parties to develop research programmes. There would be an allocation of funding and-----

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