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:

No, I do not think it is. Broad policy commitments are made all the time and we have to give effect to those broad policy commitments in the normal way we do. As I mentioned, I was involved in many conversations at political level where a very clear need for us to enhance our capacity in this space to get the university sector working together was expressed. Moreover, in two recent memorandums, the Government set out clearly its policy intent here. I was very happy, therefore, that the broad intent would be fine. The CMO's proposed salary would have been a little over 10% of the €2 million, so in terms of what Trinity would have been committing to doing, even if there was some issue with the subsequent funding, it was not a significant sum in the context of the overall fund.

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