Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 4 May 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion

Mr. Robert Watt:

Exactly. The intention was that it would fund a lead or senior investigator who would head up these research programmes and then there would be groups of people. Most of the funding would ultimately fund teams of people doing research. That is where most of the spending would be incurred.