Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 April 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health
Mr. Robert Watt:
Subsequently, yes. That would have been an issue, that would have been followed on in terms of the process. The question would have been whether it would require an additional allocation for the HRB or would it have involved a re-setting up their priorities, if there was not a higher allocation. I understand that what subsequently happened in the autumn was that additional money was allocated to the Health Research Board for this year, which it is using for this purpose, as set out in the letter of intent. As it turned out, there was a higher allocation. That might not have been the case, of course, depending on what the Minister subsequently decided on it.
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