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:
Yes. There were various iterations as we were debating on what to do. On the letter of intent, as I said before to the Chairman's questions, the letter of intent was set out with the intent to support. We had not finalised the agreement. That was to happen. We did say in the letter of intent, very clearly, that we would finalise the details of the arrangements. We were appointing people on both sides to reach agreement with a view to coming back and signing. That would have formed the basis of a legal commitment and that would have had, before that, the involvement of the Minister and others. It was just to indicate that we wanted this to happen. How it would have actually ended up if the thing had proceeded and how we would have actually funded it might have been different from what was suggested in the 1 March draft or that draft. We had not actually finalised how that would happen.
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