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:
I did not approve an allocation. I set out our intent to commit more money for research funding. It was not an approval. Trinity College Dublin knew very well as a public body, and other bodies knew, that this still had to go through. We had to finalise it. We did not sign. It is not a legal agreement. We were committed in the letter to finalise an agreement. We were committed to appointing people to finalise the details. The details had to be worked out at that stage. The Minister would have been involved before we got to the stage of signing a legal agreement. If it is-----
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