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:

Absolutely, there were precedents there and we broadly followed those precedents. There are other examples in relation to secondments to our Department of an open-ended nature. Previously, we had the chief nursing officer who was seconded from the HSE. That person was seconded for 15 or 20 years from the HSE. The head of statistics in the Department has been with us since 2013. We have a chief dental officer who has been with us since 2015 so we have several open-ended-----

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