Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 22 June 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health
Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú) | Oireachtas source
Okay. If we take the whole timeline, we had a Secretary General who for six months did not think to tell the Minister – withheld the information – that we have a botched secondment situation. The Secretary General was then asked to initially investigate his own actions. Finally, there was a report to be written independently, with which he disagrees, and now he will be the person charged with implementing that. In any chain of good administration, there would be mistakes all over that. Anybody involved in good administration would not ask the person responsible for the wrongdoing to investigate him or herself and certainly would not ask the person involved who disagrees with the recommendations to implement them. Would the Minister agree that is not good administration?
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