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

Photo of Peadar TóibínPeadar 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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