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
Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú) | Oireachtas source
The learnings associated here from the research are indicated in section 5.2 of the report under the heading governance of the proposed research funding:
The proposed funding of €2 million a year committed to by the Secretary General, Department of Health, in the Letter of Intent to Trinity College Dublin (to include University Departments of PublicHealth and others) until the retirement of the Chief Medical Officer, was a very significant commitment [by which he] by-passed all of the accepted protocols for research funding and was linked atypically to one named individual.
The question that is asked is do you accept that finding?
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